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Jyutping nin4 zi1 gau2
Pinyin nián zhī jiǔ

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. period of ... years
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    这样有两年之久,叫一切住在亚细亚的,无论是犹太人,是希腊人,都听见主的道。
    這樣有兩年之久,叫一切住在亞細亞的,無論是猶太人,是希臘人,都聽見主的道。
    zhè yàng yǒu liǎng nián zhī jiǔ , jiào yī qiè zhù zài yà xì yà de , wú lùn shì yóu tài rén , shì xī là rén , dōu tīng jiàn zhǔ de dào .
    • And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
  2. Mandarin
    中华民族的发展(这里说的主要地是汉族的发展),和世界上别的许多民族同样,曾经经过了若干万年的无阶级的原始公社的生活。而从原始公社崩溃,社会生活转入阶级生活那个时代开始,经过奴隶社会、封建社会,直到现在,已有了大约四千年之久。
    中華民族的發展(這裏説的主要地是漢族的發展),和世界上別的許多民族同樣,曾經經過了若干萬年的無階級的原始公社的生活。而從原始公社崩潰,社會生活轉入階級生活那個時代開始,經過奴隸社會、封建社會,直到現在,已有了大約四千年之久。
    zhōng huá mín zú de fā zhǎn ( zhè lǐ shuō de zhǔ yào de shì hàn zú de fā zhǎn ) , hé shì jiè shàng bié de xǔ duō mín zú tóng yàng , céng jīng jīng guò le ruò gān wàn nián de wú jiē jí de yuán shǐ gōng shè de shēng huó . ér cóng yuán shǐ gōng shè bēng kuì , shè huì shēng huó zhuǎn rù jiē jí shēng huó nà ge shí dài kāi shǐ , jīng guò nú lì shè huì , fēng jiàn shè huì , zhí dào xiàn zài , yǐ yǒu le dà yuē sì qiān nián zhī jiǔ .
    • Developing along the same lines as many other nations of the world, the Chinese people (here we refer mainly to the Hans) went through many thousands of years of life in classless primitive communes. Some 4,000 years have gone by since the collapse of these primitive communes and the transition to class society, which took the form first of slave and then of feudal society.