the early twentieth century

基本解释

At the early twentieth century, realism in English literature took a decidedly different turn.
二十世纪早期，英国文学的现实主义发生了一次明显不同的转变。
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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.
十九世纪末至二十世纪初，随着资本主义制度的建立与发展，日本社会主义思潮异常活跃起来。
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.
课程包含文学及哲学文本的概论，自十七世纪到二十世纪早期，上溯现代世界的发展。
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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.
莫里斯·拉威尔是法国作曲家,是二十世纪早期的
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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.
现在我特别想向大家解释清楚,“现代主义“到底是什么意思，它其实就是指,20世界早期的艺术和文学作品，特别是高雅艺术“,尽管它起源于19世纪，特别是19世纪法国的小说和诗歌。
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China is far more dangerous now than Imperial Japan was in the early twentieth century.
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