short twentieth century

短语

发音

UK /ˈʃɔːt ˌtwɛn.(t)ɪ.əθ ˈsɛn.t͡ʃ(ʊ).ɹi/
其它
UK /-ɪθ-/
US /ˈʃoɹt ˌtwɛn.(t)ɪ.əθ ˈsɛn.(t)ʃ(ə).ɹi/

词形变化

short twentieth centuries 复数 short twentieth centuries the short twentieth century

别名

short 20th century

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any period of years defined by significant historical events falling within the 20th century (1 January 1901 to 31 December 2000).

name
  1. 1.

    The period between 1914 and 1991, from the beginning of World War I to the fall of the Soviet Union.

词源

The concept underlying the proper noun was developed by the Hungarian historian Iván Tibor Berend (born 1930), and the term itself was popularized by the British historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) in his book The Age of Extremes (1994). Like the corresponding terms long eighteenth century and long nineteenth century, it aims to define historical eras by significant events rather than by the arbitrary beginnings and ends of centuries. The common noun was probably derived from the proper noun.

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