century, centurion, division, centuple

Obama Wins New Term as Electoral Advantage Holds
By JEFF ZELENY and JIM RUTENBERG
Voters returned President Obama to the White House, but he will face a Congress with the same divisions that marked his first term.

Ukraine and the Perils of Division

By SERGE SCHMEMANN

A Czechoslovakia-style split is an unworkable idea in a country where languages, ethnic identities and loyalties are mixed and muddled.

Centesimus Annus ：《百年》通諭：教宗若望保祿二世所頒（ 1.5.1991 ）。

centurion ：百夫長：古羅馬軍制中管理一百士兵的軍官（參閱瑪八 5-13 ）。

century
n., pl., -ries.

1. (Abbr. C. or c. or cent.)
   1. A period of 100 years.
   2. Each of the successive periods of 100 years before or since the advent of the Christian era.
2. 1. A unit of the Roman army originally consisting of 100 men.
   2. One of the 193 electoral divisions of the Roman people.
3. A group of 100 things.

[Latin centuria, a group of a hundred, from centum, hundred.]

division[di・vi・sion]

 

• レベル：最重要
• 発音記号[divíʒən]
• 
  

[名]

1 [U][C]分けられた状態；（…への）分割, 分離((into ...))；分配

division of powers
三権（司法・立法・行政）分立.

2 [U]《算数》割り算, 除法（⇔multiplication）

do division
割り算をする.

3 分離［隔離］するもの；仕切り, 隔壁, 分界標識, 境界線.

4 （分割された）部分；区分, 区画.

5 [U][C]（…間の）（意見などの）分裂, 不一致, 不和((between, among ...))

the present division in our society
我々の社会に現存する対立.

6 ((英))（議会の）賛否決定, 採決, 表決

take a division
表決する.

7 ((集合的))《陸軍》師団；《海軍》分艦隊.

8 （官庁・会社などの）部門, 部局, 事業部；（輸送系統の）区域, 地区

the sales division of the company
会社の販売部門.

9 《スポーツ》（技量・体重・年齢別などによる）クラス, 部, 級

champion of the bantam weight division
バンタム級チャンピオン

the First Division (of the football league)
英国プロサッカー1部リーグ.

10 《生物》（分類上の）門.

11 [U][C]《園芸》株分け.

 They are centupling our national debt.

centuple[cen・tu・ple]

 

• 発音記号[séntəpl | -tju-]

[形]100倍の.

━━[動](他)…を100倍する.