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Перевод: millennium

[существительное]
тысячелетие; золотой век

Тезаурус:

1. One example is the combination of a rural petty-bourgeois ancestry and the children of those parents, who live a very different life in a future which is already upon us, as in the two novels already discussed and, to some extent, in Marco Lodoli's Diario di un millennio che fugge (Diary of a millennium in flight , 1986); the protagonists of these fictions seem to belong neither to the past nor to the future, but to be caught in between, in some time-slip between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries.
2. The advent of copper began much later, in the middle of the third millennium BC; whilst arsenical copper was used, it was replaced by tin bronze at a much earlier date.
3. The Millennium Fund could be used, for example:
4. A typical study of ancient Egyptian tools and weapons, particularly axes, shows that four copper-based metals or alloys were used from the early third millennium BC to the middle of the first millennium BC: "pure" copper; arsenical copper (an alloy of copper with up to h per cent of arsenic); tin bronze or leaded tin bronze; and iron.
5. They bear some resemblance to figurines of the Italic culture of central Italy of the mid-first millennium BC.
6. This trend has a maximum deviation from true age of about nine hundred years too recent at the beginning of the fourth millennium BC.
7. In the second half of the first millennium, a canoe set out from an island in the Tahitian chain and steered due north for two and a half thousand miles by the light of the stars and the ocean currents till it reached Hawaii.
8. But the most romantic new millennium celebrations - masons and money permitting - will be at Ballone Castle on a promontory between the Firths of Dornoch and Moray in north-east Scotland.
9. On the other hand, in the middle of the first millennium AD, radiocarbon produces "ages" that are too old by a century or so (fig. 7.4).
10. My own view is that the Church of England must win its crisis of nerve and dare to do things differently as this millennium draws to a close.
11. The old dictum "might is right" which had typified the early years of the second millennium, was transformed to "might for right".
12. SUCH of that European history which came to so terrible an ending in and around the battlefields of the Somme had its beginnings in the north Rhineland town of Aachen, Charlemagne's capital, Aix-la-Chapelle; because it was here, for more than half a millennium, that the Holy Roman Empire celebrated its mysteries.
13. Native (natural metallic) copper was probably first used about the eighth millennium BC. and the earliest smelted metals, copper and lead, date from the fifth or sixth millennium BC.