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By the turn of the century, 1 million people had electric light at home.

到19世纪末20世纪初，100万人的家里安上了电灯。

In China's case, the aim is to expunge China's self-perception as "the sick man of Asia," a label that has haunted it since the turn of the 20th Century, when its ancient civilization had been carved up by foreign powers and fallen behind the world in science and development.

从中国的情形来看，目的是为了消除中国作为"东亚病夫"的这一自我认知，也是自20世纪以来，中国的远古文明遭受国外势力瓜分，科学和发展落后于世界，深受其困扰的一个标签。

This senior fantast, at the turn of the century, could not tolerate any kinds of limitation and constraint coming from the society.

这位世纪末的高龄幻想家，无法忍受社会的种种限制与束缚，宁可选择一种不为人所理解、干预的方式追求精神自由，而面临虚无与苦闷精神压力下产生的高度个人主义式杰作，更接近生命的本质，以至於平庸的一切皆褪落而去。

A t the turn of the last century, anthropologists Spencer and Gillen, in their book The Northern Tribes of Central Australia (1904), provided a classic account of the extraordinary shaman genre.

伊尔姆瑙之交的上个世纪，人类学家斯宾塞和吉伦在其书北部落中央澳大利亚（ 1904年），提供了一个典型的帐户特别巫师流派。

Ⅰ. The background and significance of subject selection Strategy for the grand-scale development of China's western region is an important decision made by China's government in the turn of new century.

一、论文选题的背景和意义实施西部开发战略，是中国面向新世纪的重大抉择。

At the turn of the century, with the third generation of China"s leadership putting forward the "strategy for the grand-scale development of China"s western region", our government has clarified important policies on pushing forward the great development of north-western China through giving full play to the role of selected central cities and on the support of this land bridge communication artery.

世纪之交，随着党中央关于西部大开发战略的制定和实施，我国政府明确提出了西北部大开发要依托亚欧大陆桥交通干线这一大通道，发挥中心城市的作用，以点带面，有重点地推进西北部大开发等重大决策。

The shift from hero-worship to celebrity-worship occurred around the turn of the century.

由英雄崇拜到名流崇拜的转变始于本世纪初。

The shift from hero-worship to celebrity-worship occurred around the turn of the century. It was closely tied to the rise of new forms of media --- first photography, and later moving pictures, radio and television.

这种从英雄崇拜到名利崇拜的变化发生在世纪的转化中，它紧密的联系中新的媒体的形式：第一次摄影，和晚期的电影，无线电广播，和电视机。

By the turn of the 20th century Liverpool had become the center of 7 miles (11 km) of docks extending along the Mersey from Hornby in the north to Herculaneum in the south.

进入20世纪，利物浦已经形成长达7英里(11公里)的船坞中心，从北部的霍恩比一直延伸至南部的河克兰纽姆。

At the turn of the century, the Chinese economy quietly started its change from labour intensiveness to knowledge intensiveness; besides, it seems that unskilled labour become scarce.

世纪之交的最大变化可能是中国经济悄然开始了由劳动密集型向知识技能密集型转变。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。