millennium是什麼意思 millennium的用法 millennium怎麼讀

millennium

英 [mɪ'lɛnɪrm]美 [məˈlɛniəm]

n. 千年期，千禧年；一千年，千年紀念；太平盛世，黃金時代

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中文詞源

millennium 一千年，千禧年

來自拉丁語mille,千，詞源同million,annus,年，詞源同annual.即一千年，千禧年。

英語詞源

millennium

millennium: see mile

millennium (n.)

1630s, from Modern Latin millennium, from Latin mille "thousand" (see million) + annus "year" (see annual); formed on analogy of biennium, triennium, etc. For vowel change, see biennial. First in English in sense of "1,000-year period of Christ's anticipated rule on Earth" (Rev. xx:1-5). Sense of "any 1,000-year period" first recorded 1711. Meaning "the year 2000" attested from 1970.

權威例句

1. the second millennium AD

公元第二個千年

2. He lived long enough to see in the new millennium.

他活到了新千年.

3. The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.

全世界都在倒計時迎接新千年的到來.

4. Acupuncture was practised in China as long ago as the third millennium BC.

中國早在公元前3,000年就已開始採用鍼灸療法。

5. We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.

我們靜候着時鐘滴答走過千年的最後幾秒鐘.

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