It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government
The parallel with English becomes even more striking when we realize that Latin continued to be used for many hundreds of years more as the world's first "international language."
The Great Wall of China is more than 5,500 miles long.
万里の長城は五千五百マイル以上の長さがあります。
It will be little more than a hundred years before we use all the oil up.
我々が石油を使い果たすまでには百年かからないであろう。
Millions of workers lost their jobs.
何百万人という労働者が職を失った。
Smoking does much harm but no good.
たばこは百害あって一利なし。
I print 100 pages.
私はページを百枚印刷する。
The lion is the king of beasts.
ライオンは百獣の王です。
The speedometer is recording 100 mph now.
スピードメーターは現在毎時百マイルを示している。
Two hundred houses were burnt down in the fire which broke out yesterday.
昨日の火事で二百戸が全焼した。
Four armed men held up the bank and escaped with $4 million.
四人の武装した男が銀行を襲って、四百万ドルを奪って逃げた。
One hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, five hundred, six hundred, seven hundred, eight hundred, nine hundred, one thousand.
一百, 二百, 三百, 四百, 五百, 六百, 七百, 八百, 九百, 一千。
The lilies have been beaten down by the rain.
百合が雨のために打ち倒されてしまった。
The race was fixed.
あのレースは八百長だった。
Penny-wise and pound-foolish.
一文惜しみの百失い。
Mrs. Thompson wants to conceal the fact that she is a millionaire.
トンプソン夫人は自分が百万長者である事を隠しておきたいと思っている。
Hundreds of people were on the spot.
何百という人々がその現場にいた。
Hundreds of people were waiting outside the ticket office.
何百人もの人が切符売場の外で待っていました。
I paid $200 in taxes.
私は税金に二百ドル払った。
You may spend a maximum of 100 dollars.
最高百ドルまで遣ってよい。
He had no more than one hundred yen with him.
彼は百円しか持ち合わせていなかった。
Scant difference.
五十歩百歩。
One of his paintings fetched more than a million dollars at auction.
彼の絵の一つはオークションで百万ドル以上の値が付いた。
Cancer is not one but more than hundred distinct diseases.
ガンは一つの病気ではなく、百以上の別の病気の集まりである。
The probability of this chain of events all happening at once is one in 2 million flights - about once every two months at current levels of air traffic.
This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in thi