She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
The parallel with English becomes even more striking when we realize that Latin continued to be used for many hundreds of years more as the world's first "international language."
The balance at the bank stands at two million yen.
銀行に二百万円残っている。
More than a million old people are sick in bed.
百万以上の老人が病床にある。
He drew $100 from his account.
彼は口座から百ドル下ろした。
The race was fixed.
あのレースは八百長だった。
Hundreds of people were on the spot.
何百という人々がその現場にいた。
We covered some 100 miles in the car.
私たちは車で約百キロ走破した。
That was being sold at a dollar store.
それなら百円ショップでも売ってたよ。
It was also sold at a 100 yen store.
それなら百円ショップでも売ってたよ。
A hundred and fifty diplomats came to that conference.
その会議には百五十名の外交官が来ました。
I paid 800 yen for this book.
私はこの本に八百円を払った。
Yuri often went to London in those days.
百合は当時たびたびロンドンに行った。
When angry, count ten; when very angry, a hundred.
腹がたった十数えよ、もっと腹がたったら百数えよ。
A hundred years is called a century.
百年は一世紀と呼ばれる。
This river extends for hundreds of miles.
この川は数百マイルも続いている。
I met him outside the greengrocer's.
私は八百屋の外で彼に出会った。
Few people live to be more than a hundred.
百歳以上生きる人はほとんどいない。
Go down the street for about five minutes, and you will see the department store to the right.
５分ばかりこの道を行けば、右手にその百貨店があります。
The distance from the sun to the earth is about 93 million miles.
太陽から地球まで距離は９千３百万マイルです。
The speedometer is recording 100 mph now.
スピードメーターは現在毎時百マイルを示している。
I was really surprised to hear that this cultivator cost as much as 1 million yen.
この耕運機が百万円もしたと聞いたときはびっくりしたよ。
Hundreds of boys are playing in the ground.
何百人もの少年達がグランドで遊んでいる。
I was not in the least surprised, for I had fully expected as much.
その程度のことは百も承知だったから、私は少しも驚かなかった。
This game is fixed.
このゲームは八百長だ。
He died a few days before his hundredth birthday.
彼は百歳の誕生日の数日前に亡くなった。
There were several hundred people in the plaza.
広場には数百人の人がいた。
The Japanese have tried to learn the Western way of thinking and feeling for the past hundred years.
日本人はこの百年間、西洋の考え方、感じ方を学びとろうとしてきた。
Few people live to be 100 years old.
百歳まで生きる人はほとんどいません。
Of course there were several hundred boats moving around on the water but not just any old one would do.
むろん、舟は何百艘も水面を動きまわっているが、どれでもいいというわけにはいかない。
The sun is about 1,000,000 times as large as the earth.
太陽は地球の約百万倍の大きさがある。
A one million yen fine? That's nothing to me.
百万円の罰金だって？そんなの痛くもかゆくもないよ。
For the peasant, fruits are more important than flowers.
百姓にとっては花より果が大切である。
It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government
