CENTURY

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Traducere în limba română

century substantiv

1. veac, secol, o sută de ani.

2. (ist.) centurie.

3. (of) o sută (de); (amer. fam.) o sută de dolari;

a century of essays (antologia / culegere / volum cuprinzând) o sută de eseuri.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It seemed centuries since he had begun the round of daily fights, and time stretched away into a nightmare and infinite future of daily fights.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Were another of the Un-Dead, like him, to try to do what he has done, perhaps not all the centuries of the world that have been, or that will be, could aid him.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

But, then, if I remember right, you had not heard the name of Professor James Moriarty, who had one of the great brains of the century.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It seemed centuries—possibly it was no more than ten minutes that the beating continued.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Half a century has passed since then, and I have seen my share of fine men.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fact is, once for all, I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It's the poem of the century.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

"Because," he answered solemnly, "he can live for centuries, and you are but mortal woman. Time is now to be dreaded—since once he put that mark upon your throat."

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

After several centuries it came to him, easily, without effort, that it was Maria.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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