century是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 世纪， (一) 百年，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I often think that the celebrated talkers of the last century would have found it difficult to talk cleverly now.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Passepartout might have cudgelled his brain for a century without hitting upon the real object which the detective had in view.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A year or two--a decade or two--a century or two--they were all the same to the plodding doctor in the bee-murmuring town.
-- Martin read of him as addressing the Century Club of Nautilus on "A Yankee Doctor's Trip Through Old Europe," and the Mugford College Alumni Association on "Wanted: A Man-sized Feetball Coach for Old Mugford."
-- It may be that Gottlieb resented the fact that though Sondelius was only eleven years younger--fifty-eight to Gottlieb's sixty-nine--he seemed thirty years younger, half a century gayer.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you know, I always, from the very beginning, regretted that it wasn't your sister's fate to be born in the second or third century A.D., as the daughter of a reigning prince or some governor or pro-consul in Asia Minor.
-- And in the fourth or fifth century she would have walked away into the Egyptian desert and would have stayed there thirty years living on roots and ecstasies and visions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What have the people been about, who have been thebusiest in getting money, and in getting power, this century ortwo?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In London, twenty or thirty-years ago are old times; in Paris ten years, or five; in Weatherbury three or four score years were included in the mere present, and nothing less than a century set a mark on its face or tone.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As we entered this city our minds were filled with the remembrance of the events that had been transacted there more than a century and a half before.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Savannah and Charleston had the dignity of their years, one being well along in its second century and the otherentering its third, and in her young eyes they had always seemed like aged grandmothers fanning themselves placidlyin the sun.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jacob was a pioneer in the study of German philology, and although Wilhelm's work was hampered by poor health the brothers collaborated in the creation of a German diction-ary, not completed until a century after their deaths.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides the usual deformities in extreme old age, they acquired an additional ghastliness, in proportion to their number of years, which is not to be described; and among half a dozen, I soon dis-tinguished which was the eldest, although there was not above a century or two between them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Supposing the learned Icelander's journey ever really to have taken place--there was one simple answer to be made: In the sixteenth century neither the barometer nor the manometer had been invented--how, then, could Saknussemm have been able to discover when he did reach the centre of the earth?
-- "I have read everything in relation to the skeleton of Trapani, discovered in the fourteenth century, and which many persons chose to regard as that of Polyphemus, and the history of the giant dug up during the sixteenth century in the environs of Palmyra.
-- In the eighteenth century I should have denied, with Peter Campet, the existence of the preadamites of Scheuchzer.
-- The blade is covered with a regular coating of iron mold and rust, which is not a day old, not a year old, not a century old, but much more--" The Professor began to get quite excited, according to custom, and was allowing himself to be carried away by his fertile imagination.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without thinking it worth while to explain that in the course of some quarter of a century he had experienced occasional slight fluctuations in his health and spirits, Clennam answered generally that he had never been better, or something equally to the purpose; and shook hands with the possessor of 'that head' as it shed its patriarchal light upon him.
-- She began with sorrowful unwillingness to acknowledge to herself that she was not strong enough to keep off the fear that no space in the life of man could overcome that quarter of a century behind the prison bars.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But to all these her old antiquities, were added new and marvellous features, pertaining to the wild business that for more than half a century she had followed.
-- In the sixth Christian century lived Procopius, a Christian magistrate of Constantinople, in the days when Justinian was Emperor and Belisarius general.
-- If, then, you properly put these statements together, and reason upon them a bit, you will clearly perceive that, according to all human reasoning, Procopius's sea-monster, that for half a century stove the ships of a Roman Emperor, must in all probability have been a sperm whale.
-- I do not wish to seem inelegant, but this unsightly whale looks much like an amputated sow; and, as for the narwhale, one glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this nineteenth century such a hippogriff could be palmed for genuine upon any intelligent public of schoolboys.
-- Be it distinctly recorded here, that the Nantucketers were the first among mankind to harpoon with civilized steel the great Sperm Whale; and that for half a century they were the only people of the whole globe who so harpooned him.
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