quarter-century

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A period of twenty-five years.
    — In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from Waterloo to Padstow, and between Swindon and Eastleigh there was a great gulf fixed.

词形变化

quarter-centuries plural

词源

From quarter + century.
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