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.
Futbol, ikinci yüzyılda Çin'de oynandı.
- Football was played in China in the second century.
Yahudiler, İspanyol Engizisyonundan kaçtılar ve onbeşinci asırda Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'na sığındılar.
- Jews fled the Spanish Inquisition and took shelter in Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth century.
Yüz yıla bir asır denir.
- A hundred years is called a century.
Peygamberler yüzyıllar boyunca dünyanın sonunu önceden tahmin etmiştir.
- Prophets have been forecasting the end of the world for centuries.
Üç yüzyıl önce bile, Batı Avrupalıların çoğu hâlâ kendi muhbirlerini kullanıyorlardı.
- Even three centuries ago, most Western Europeans still used their fingers.
'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.
Fig. 2: a 13 th C. illumination of ‘H’.
By the turn of the century he was starting to become well known in literary circles.
... human compassion. Think about the fact that a half century ago, ...
... The 20th century is the most extraordinary moment in human history. ...