20. yüzyılın ortalarından beri Pekin'de su kuyusu sayısı önemli ölçüde düşmüş ve yeni yol ve binalar için bir yol yapmak için yıkılmışlardır.
- Since the mid-20th century, the number of hutongs in Beijing has dropped dramatically as they are demolished to make way for new roads and buildings.
Birçok Avrupalı araştırmacılar on dokuzuncu yüzyılda eski Fars edebiyatı eğitimi almasına rağmen, yeni dünya çağdaş edebiyatımıza dikkat etmiyor.
- Although many European researchers have studied ancient Persian literature in the nineteenth century, the new world is not paying attention to our contemporary literature.
Üniversite günlerine dönüp baktığımda,sanki bir asır önceymiş gibi görünüyorlar.
- Looking back on our college days, it seems as if they were a century ago.
Yüz yıla bir asır denir.
- A hundred years is called a century.
'tis the subject of whole books: I might cite a century of authors pro and con.
In the 19th century, the number of immigrants swelled rapidly.
- In the 19th century, the number of immigrants grew rapidly.
Last century they would have just thrown someone like Tom into a lunatic asylum.
- Last century they would've just thrown someone like Tom into a lunatic asylum.
... a historian 250 years from now will say about this quarter century or this half century ...
... human compassion. Think about the fact that a half century ago, ...