Men of genius are meteors destined to burn in order to illuminate their century.
天才とは、彼らの世紀を照らして光輝くべく運命づけられた流星である。
Naoki was poor and lived in a hut.
直紀は貧しくして小屋に住んでいた。
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
Looking back on our college days, it seems as if they were a century ago.
大学時代を振り返ってみるとあたかも１世紀前の事のように思える。
Parliament has its beginnings in 14th-century England.
議会は１４世紀英国にその起源がある。
2001 is the year when the 21st century begins.
２００１年は２１世紀の始まる年です。
In the late eighteenth century, a passport for an American was usually signed by the President of the United States.
１８世紀の後半には、アメリカ人のパスポートは通常、合衆国大統領によって署名されていた。
The first electric calculator came into existence toward the end of the 19th century.
最初の電気計算器は１９世紀末に出現した。
He was born in the 19th century.
彼は１９世紀に生まれた。
Yuki! It's great to see you again!
由紀！また会えてうれしいわ。
Science is the way to prepare for the 21st century.
科学は２１世紀に備える方法だ。
The nineteenth century was the age of the white man's civilization.
１９世紀は白人文明の時代だった。
The old church on the hill dates back to the twelfth century.
丘の上のあの古い教会は１２世紀に造られた。
At the turn of the century, children still worked in factories.
世紀の変わり目に子供たちはまだ工場で働いていた。
Only after a century and a half of confusion was the royal authority restored.
一世紀半混乱が続いた後に、やっと国王の権威が回復された。
It is over a century since slavery was made illegal.
奴隷制度が非合法となってから１世紀以上になる。
The twenty-first century starts in just a few years.
２１世紀はほんの数年で始まる。
This oil painting dates from the 17th century.
この油絵は１７世紀のものだ。
The 19th century saw the Industrial Revolution.
１９世紀には産業革命が起こった。
This style of hairdressing first appeared in the early 19th century.
この髪型は１９世紀始めに初めて見られるようになった。
First came the Celts in 600 B. C.
まずやって来たのはケルト族で、紀元前６００年のことでした。
The first prohibition of slavery was in the mid-nineteenth century.
初めての奴隷制度禁止令は１９世紀半ばに行われた。
Modern philosophy has its beginnings in the 19th century.
現代哲学は１９世紀に始まる。
The species will be made extinct by the end of this century.
その種は今世紀の終わりまでに絶滅させられるでしょう。
He had heard stories about an ancient god who had left his land centuries before by ship.
彼は船で何世紀も前に自分の土地を離れた古代の神様についての話を聞いていた。
Even at the end of the nineteenth century, sailors in the British Navy were not permitted to use knives and forks because using them was considered a sign of weakness.
America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves, if our children should live to see the next century, if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change
In the course of the twentieth century all this changed.
２０世紀の間に、こうしたことすべてが変わった。
This island belonged to France in the 19th century.
この島は１９世紀にはフランス領であった。
Learning lessons from Europe, Japan has to switch its economic-oriented policy to a consumer-conscious one, in order to cope with the coming unprecedented aging society towards the 21st century.
