【词汇大师】“年代秀”（1/2）

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一年一年又一年，我们已经进入到21世纪的第二个十年，这样的十年还叫"decade"？
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本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话① "What did we call it when we had the turn to the twentieth century, what did we call it then, in nineteen hundred to nineteen ten?"
主持人对话②"Or eighteen hundred to eighteen ten or seventeen hundred to seventeen ten?"
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"Well, you can just speak very generally, you could speak about it as 'the first decade of the twenty-first century,' but that doesn't really lend itself to the types of ways of talking about decades that we normally have with the seventies, eighties, nineties. The first decade? That's ... "
"Well, the whole idea of even talking about decades in this way really only started in the late nineteenth century. We have examples of people talking about the 'eighties' and the 'nineties,' referring to the eighteen eighties or the eighteen nineties, for instance. But they had a similar problem in the first decade of the twentieth century, of not being exactly sure what to call it.
"Very often it was just simply called 'the nineteen hundreds,' although of course that's a bit ambiguous because it could refer to the whole century. But there wasn't really a good term for it back then either. Some people in retrospect have called the decade 'the aughts.'"