the seventeenth century

基本解释

The attack began not all that long ago, really only as late as the seventeenth century.
攻击并未太慢开始，早在十七世纪就开始了。
In the UK, too, religion seems to be generating an animosity not seen since the seventeenth century.
在英国也是同样，似乎自从十七世纪之后，信仰就不再产生憎恨和仇视了一般。
In the time we're starting this course in the seventeenth century, besides London, which is this gigantic place, the biggest cities in England were Norwich and Exeter, and York in the north.
我们这节课的起始年代,即十七世纪,除了伦敦这个巨型的城市,英国最大的城市是诺里奇和埃克塞特,以及北部的约克

Signs on some of the houses say they were built as long ago as the seventeenth century.
But for Milton's contemporaries in the seventeenth century, Milton's power really wasn't at all aesthetic or even religious in nature.
但在17世纪弥尔顿同时代的人看来，弥尔顿的力量却是毫无美感的，甚至本质上不是宗教上的。
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选
Let me take you back to the seventeenth century, up to the very beginning of the literary reception of John Milton.
让我把你们带回到17世纪，约翰·弥尔顿刚在文学领域为人所知的时候。
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The city always had a fairy-tale aspect, but until the seventeenth century its irreality was checked by an appetite for business.
NPR: Book Traces Family Suffering from Deadly Insomnia