| 单词 | the hundred days |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Hundred Days (b) the Hundred Days [the immediate source of the phrase is the speech delivered by Louis de Chabrol de Volvic, prefect of Paris, to Louis XVIII in 1815 (‘Cent jours se sont écoulés depuis le moment fatal où votre majesté quitta sa capitale’)] the period of the restoration of Napoleon Bonaparte, after his escape from Elba, ending with his abdication on 22 June 1815. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods antiquityc1375 Christian antiquity1577 the days of ignorance1652 the time of ignorance1652 dark ages1656 Lower Empire1668 the age of reason1792 Scythism1793 grand siècle1811 the Age of Enlightenment1825 the Hundred Days1827 Tom and Jerry days1840 regency1841 industrial age1843 Régence1845 viking age1847 ignorance1867 renascence1868 Renaissance1872 gilded age1874 jazz era1919 jazz age1920 post-war1934 steam age1941 postcolonialism1955 information age1960 1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon IX. i. 33 Here, therefore, ended that short space..that period of an Hundred Days, in which the events of a century seem to be contained. 1862 C. Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. VIII. ii. 21 This landing in the Gulf of St. Juan on the 1st of March was the introductory scene to the great drama called ‘The Hundred Days’. 1887 O. W. Holmes (title) Our hundred days in Europe. 1956 J. M. Burns Roosevelt: Lion & Fox ix. 169 The President asked for quick authorization of a civilian conservation corps... This bill interested Roosevelt himself as much as any single measure of the Hundred Days. 1965 T. C. Sorensen Kennedy ix. 242 ‘I'm sick of reading how we're planning another “hundred days” of miracles,’ he [sc. J. F. Kennedy] said, ‘and I'd like to know who on the staff is talking that up. Let's put in that this won't all be finished in a hundred days or a thousand.’ 1965 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 10 Apr. (1970) 257 Lyndon talked of the harvest of legislation. He said that never has there been such a hundred days. 1966 H. Wilson Purpose in Power i. 1 (heading) The first hundred days. < as lemmas |
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