millennium
millennium 英 [mɪˈleniəm] 美 [məˈlɛniəm]
n. 千年期，千禧年；一千年，千年纪念；太平盛世，黄金时代
名词复数:millenniums
- A decade means ten years, a century means a hundred, and millennium means a thousand. Think: a decade of marriage, the new millennium.
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- n. 千年期，千禧年；一千年，千年纪念；太平盛世，黄金时代
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1. Are we going to make the right decisions for the next century or the next millennium?
我们这样真的是在为下一个世纪或者下一个千禧年做正确的选择么？
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2. Are we going to make the right decisions for the next century or the next millennium? We have not adapted psychologically to the notion of long-term consequences.
我们这样真的是在为下一个世纪或者下一个千禧年做正确的选择么？我们还没有从心理上适应长期后果这个概念。
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3. But while this sounds like a complete disaster -- another millennium Bug -- it need not be, and there is a solution, if we all act quickly enough.
这个听起来像是一场计算机的灾难——如另一个千年虫——但是如果我们的行动足够快，它未必如此，这里存在一个解决方案。
- 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" (Revelations xx.1-5). Sense of "any 1,000-year period" first recorded 1711. Meaning "the year 2000" attested from 1970.
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