单词详解

num. 第十九 (The nineteenth item in a series is the one that you count as number nineteen.)

1.  Before the early nineteenth century, books were hand-bound using heavy materials such as

wood, leather, gold, silver and jewels.

十九世纪早期以前，书籍都是使用笨重的材料，如木头、皮革、金、银和宝石等手工装订而成的。

2.  Many central banks in Europe can date back to the eighteenth or nineteenth century.

许多欧洲的中央银行都能追溯到十八世纪或十九世纪。

3.  Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century. 滑铁卢（战役）是十九世纪的关键。

4.  Inventions of the telegraph and telephone in the nineteenth century have revolutionary effects

on people’s communication mode.

十九世纪发明的电报和电话对人们的通讯方式具有革命性的影响。

5.  By the end of the nineteenth century, he was developing some exciting new ideas about the human mind. 到十九世纪末，他发展了关于人类思维的一些令人激动的新想法。

相关单词

基数词：nineteen

缩写词：19th