百年 meaning in English
1.(指很多年; 很长时期) a hundred years; a century
2.(人的一生; 终生) lifetime
Examples
- The art has passed down for centuries .
这门手艺已经传下来好几百年了。 - The motor car has been with us for almost a century .
汽车问世已近百年了。 - That style of music died out hundred years ago .
那种风格的音乐几百年前都已绝迹了。 - That hundred-year-old tree is still growing well ...
那棵百年老树至今还长得好好儿的。 - The ten years between them yawned like a hundred .
虽只相隔了十年，他们却感觉象是一百年。