the early twentieth century

基本解释

At the early twentieth century, realism in English literature took a decidedly different turn.
二十世紀早期，英國文學的現實主義發生了一次明顯不同的轉變。
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From the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, with the establishment and development of capitalism , the socialist ideas were quite active in Japan.
十九世紀末至二十世紀初，隨著資本主義制度的建立與發展，日本社會主義思潮異常活躍起來。
This course comprises a broad survey of texts, literary and philosophical, which trace the development of the modern world from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century.
課程包含文學及哲學文本的概論，自十七世紀到二十世紀早期，上溯現代世界的發展。
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The Dictionary of Soldier Talk says GI was used for the words galvanized iron in a publication about the vehicles of the early twentieth century.
Maurice Ravel was a French composer writing in the early twentieth century.
莫裡斯·拉威爾是法國作曲家,是二十世紀早期的
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Now I want to really clarify for you what I mean by this term "modernism." It just means the art and literature of the early twentieth century, especially the "high art," although its roots are definitely in the nineteenth century, especially the French nineteenth century, fiction and poetry.
現在我特別想曏大家解釋清楚,“現代主義“到底是什麽意思，它其實就是指,20世界早期的藝術和文學作品，特別是高雅藝術“,盡琯它起源於19世紀，特別是19世紀法國的小說和詩歌。
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China is far more dangerous now than Imperial Japan was in the early twentieth century.
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