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 atomic bomb is the offspring of 20th century physics.
原子爆弾は２０世紀物理学の所産だ。
In the 19th century, the number of immigrants increased rapidly.
１９世紀には移民の数が急激に増大した。
Naoki was poor and lived in a hut.
直紀は貧しくして小屋に住んでいた。
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.
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。
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.
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。
Let's look ahead to the next century.
次の世紀に向け将来の計画を立てよう。
How nice of Noriko.
紀子さんて、ほんとにいい人ね。
This oil painting dates from the 17th century.
この油絵は１７世紀のものだ。
I like Sachiko better than Akiko.
私は亜紀子さんよりも佐知子さんの方が好きです。
Yukiko is an innocent girl of tender years.
優紀子は年端も行かない無邪気な少女です。
The 21st century belongs to Asia.
２１世紀はアジアの時代である。
Ow! Yukiko! That hurts! Quit hitting me with your fists!
痛い！由紀子！痛いよ。グーで殴るのはよせよ！
A century is one hundred years.
１世紀は１００年です。
The twenty-first century begins in 2001.
２１世紀は２００１年に始まる。
A hundred years is called a century.
百年は一世紀と呼ばれる。
Despite the problems of excessive commercialization, etc. the Olympics will go forward into the new century.
肥大化、過度の商業化などの問題も抱えて、五輪は新世紀に向かう。
Can you imagine what the 21st century will be like?
２１世紀がどのようになるか想像できますか。
Even three centuries ago, most Western Europeans still used their fingers.
３世紀前においてさえも、ほとんどの西ヨーロッパ人はまだ指を使っていた。
It is well known that up to the middle of the last century Japan was a feudal state.
前世紀の中頃まで日本が封建国家であったことは、よくしられている。
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
Science is the way to prepare for the 21st century.
科学は２１世紀に備える方法だ。
Parliament has its beginnings in 14th-century England.
議会は１４世紀英国にその起源がある。
Public morals have been corrupted in this town.
この町の風紀は乱れている。
Humanity has suffered more from war in this century than ever before.
人類は今世紀に入ってこれまで以上に戦争に苦しんできた。
Briefly stated, Hobsbawm's thesis is that the history of the twentieth century is that of the decline of civilization.
簡潔に言うと、ホブボームの論点は２０世紀の歴史は文化衰退の歴史であるということだ。
This custom dates back to the 12th century.
この風習の起源は１２世紀にさかのぼる。
Science has made rapid progress in this century.
科学は今世紀になって急速な進歩を遂げた。
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。
In the nineteenth century, many Africans were sold as slaves in the United States.
合衆国では１９世紀に多くのアフリカ人が奴隷として売られた。
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
