centurion
/sɛnˈtjʊɹ.i.ən/ 名词 C1中文： 百夫长
- An officer of the ancient Roman army, in command of a century of soldiers.
- A player who scores a century.
- A pilot in the United States Navy who has performed one hundred night landings on an aircraft carrier.
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“Spada knew what these invitations meant; since Christianity, so eminently civilizing, had made progress in Rome, it was no longer a centurion who came from the tyrant with a message, ‘Cæsar wills that you die.’ but it was a legate à latere, who came with a smile on his lips to say from the pope, ‘His holiness requests you to dine with him.’
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