Japanese DictionaryWords related to 百年
- (n) 100th birthday anniversary
- (adv) throughout the year; all the year round; always
- (n) permanent national policy
- (n) the 1900s
- (exp) waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event; waiting for pigs to fly; When the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- (exp) a bad wife spells the ruin of her husband; a bad wife means a hundred years of bad luck to her husband
- (n) Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
- (exp) At last your time has come
Sentences containing 百年
It goes back, Personnel Officer Paula Grayson told us, to the way many employers used to pay their employees a hundred years ago.
It will be little more than a hundred years before we use all the oil up.
The parallel with English becomes even more striking when we realize that Latin continued to be used for many hundreds of years more as the world's first "international language."
The fork made its way to Western tables several hundred years later, but it was not immediately accepted.
And that's why for almost a hundred years, any employee has been able to go to his employer and insist on being paid in cash.
This novel describes the life of the Japanese as it was a hundred years ago.