nián dài

Translation

  • a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)
  • age
  • era
  • period
  • CL:個|个[ge4]

Synonyms

Examples

  • 科技在 1990 年代会有很大进步吧。
    Technology will make a lot of progress in the nineties.
  • 这首歌在七十年代很流行。
    This song was popular in the 1970s.
  • 我那个年代的学生大多不读书,但考试却不会不合格。
    In our time, there were many students who passed the graduation exam without studying.
  • 这个年代用电视和收音机报道新闻已是十分平常的事了。
    The communication of news by TV and radio is very common now.
  • 当30年代的沙尘暴和大萧条使人们感到绝望时,她看到一个国家用新政、Ą
    When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.
  • 到了四十年代,旗袍有了种类繁多的图案和面料,也有了同样种类繁多的
    By the 1940s, the qipao came in a wide variety of designs and fabrics, with an equally wide variety of accessories.
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