英语词汇“century clock”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

century clock n. figurative (now rare) a notional clock recording the passage of centuries (and years), rather than hours and minutes.

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1862 R. W. Emerson in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 135/1 If we did not find the reflection of ourselves in the eyes of the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck seventy instead of twenty.

1905 N. Amer. Rev. Dec. 864 The spiritual imagination of English literature fled away..at the dying of the seventeenth century... It was away, as though the seventeen strokes of the century clock had rung a recognized and inevitable hour of farewell.

1997 G. J. Williams Our Moonlight Revels vi. 132 A reaffirmation of traditions as the century clock turned twelve and amid the growing sense that an era was ending.

单词	century clock
释义	> as lemmas century clock century clock n. figurative (now rare) a notional clock recording the passage of centuries (and years), rather than hours and minutes. ΚΠ 1862 R. W. Emerson in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 135/1 If we did not find the reflection of ourselves in the eyes of the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck seventy instead of twenty. 1905 N. Amer. Rev. Dec. 864 The spiritual imagination of English literature fled away..at the dying of the seventeenth century... It was away, as though the seventeen strokes of the century clock had rung a recognized and inevitable hour of farewell. 1997 G. J. Williams Our Moonlight Revels vi. 132 A reaffirmation of traditions as the century clock turned twelve and amid the growing sense that an era was ending. extracted from centuryn. < as lemmas
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