As long ago as the fourteenth century,
早在14世纪，
新概念英语第三册 Lesson 14 A noble gangster

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

century ['sɛntʃəri] 词频1 词根: cent
n. 百年，一世纪;百个;（板球）一百分;<美>百元钞票;
💡 cent 表”百”; 十进制中表小数点的前缀
"The discovery of distillation is usually accredited to the Arabs of the 11th century."
通常认为，蒸馏法是阿拉伯人在11世纪发明的。
long [lɔŋ] 词频1 词根: /lə/
adj. 长的;长时间的;冗长的，过长的;长音的; adv. 长久地;始终;遥远地; n. 长时间，长时期;[语]长音节;（服装的）长尺寸;长裤; vi. 渴望，极想;
💡 渴望见到很 长的龙（long） 长龙（拼音long)摆尾 网友：顾亮亮 补充：龙很长
"How long will I be under the anaesthetic ?"
我会麻醉多长时间？
近义：lengthened, lengthy, moderately, pretty, quite, rather 反义：little, minute, small, squat, slight
fourteenth ['fəur'ti:nθ] 词频1
num. 第十四; n. 第十四;每月的第十四日;十四分之一; adj. 第十四的;十四分之一的;
"With the fourteenth century the real history of the European literature begins."
欧洲文学的真正历史开始于14世纪.

📚 更多「新概念英语第三册」例句

These friendly dogs, which were first brought from Asia, were used as watchdogs even in Roman times.
那些最先从亚洲引进的狗，待人友好，早在罗马时代就给人当看门狗了。
If fifty pence pieces are not exchanged for sweets, they rattle for months inside money boxes.
如果50便士不拿来换糖吃，则可以放在储蓄罐里叮当响上好几月。
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.
当读者到小说最后几页了解到书中女主人公，那位一向待大家很好的可爱的老妇人年轻时一连毒死了她的5个丈夫时，不禁会毛骨悚然。
A farm worker, who stayed up all night claimed to have seen a figure cutting corn in the moonlight.
有一个彻夜未眠的雇工还声称他看见一个人影在月光下收割庄稼。
Suddenly they came to a waterfall which dropped into an underground lake at the bottom of the cave.
突然，他们来到一道瀑布前，那瀑布奔泻而下，注入洞底一处地下湖里。
We offered them food and spoke to them kindly, but they remained motionless.
我们给他们东西吃，客客气气地同他们交谈，但他们却一动也不动。