They will wait a twelvemonth , and finding no good comes of it.

Throughout the Twenties, Lardner tried in vain to write a hit song, so at last he turned to parody.

整个20年代，拉德纳尝试着想要写出一首走红歌曲，可是都失败了，于是最后转向戏仿他人的作品。

In her twenties and thirties she had had no difficulty getting jobs.

她在二三十岁时找工作一点也不困难.

He wrote romantic poetry before the war and then , in the mid-twenties, turned savagely against humanity.

战前, 他写浪漫诗;二十年代 中期, 他转而激烈反对古典文学.

He took to authorship in his early twenties.

他二十刚出头就开始从事著述.

Tomorrow will be his twentieth birthday.

明天是他的二十岁生日.

...the twentieth century.

20 世纪

The use of the motorcar is becoming more and more widespread in the twentieth century.

二十世纪汽车的应用越来越广泛了.

By this standard, Pablo Picasso was born a phenomenon of the twentieth century.

据此标准, 帕勃洛·毕加索本来就是20世纪的一位非凡人物.

He dominated the plant taxonomic world at the turn of the twentieth century.

他在二十世纪曾垄断了整个植物分类学界.

American literature burst on the international scene in the early decades of the twentieth century.

美国文学在二十世纪头一、二十年崛起于世界文坛.

He was probably one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century.

他差不多是二十世纪最伟大的运动员之一.

He was arrested February twentieth.

他是在2月20日被拘捕的.

Hartford is a river city, but for much of the twentieth century that was largely rumor.

Hartford是个沿河城市, 但是在20世纪的大部分时间里,这只是徒有虚名罢了.

The story is a contemporary one; it occurs in the second half of the twentieth century.

这是一个发生在当代的故事 -- 故事发生在20世纪下半叶.

New Hampshire created the first legal American state lottery in the twentieth century.

新罕布什尔州创立了20世纪第一个合法的国家彩票.

Only four months after he became President, the twentieth man to hold that office was shot.

在加菲尔德成为总统后仅四个月, 这位第二十个入主白宫的人遭到暗杀.

Ronald Stuart Thomas is a great Welsh poet writing in English in the twentieth century.

罗纳德·斯图亚特·托马斯（1913&2000）是二十世纪伟大的用英语写作的威尔士诗人。

Science and technology transformed the world the twentieth century.

科学和技术改变了二十世纪的世界.

Ganged. Western Literary Theory in the Twentieth Century. Beijing : Peking University Press, 2006.

朱刚编注: 《二十世纪西方文论》, 北京大学出版社, 2006.

Tomorrow is her twentieth birthday.

明天是她二十岁生日.