简单释义：

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n. 一千年；千周年纪念日；千禧年

网络 太平盛世；千年追凶；千禧情

变形：

复数：millennia  

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完整释义：

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n.

1.一千年(间);千周年纪念
2.一千年至福
3.(幻想中的)黄金时代,太平盛世
4.白蜜
5.大白圆粒

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例句：

1. Those benchmarks have come to be known as the Millennium Development Goals, or "MDGs" .
   人们把这些标准称作千年发展目标。

2. Built on wooden pilings sunk in the ooze of a backwater lagoon, Venice rose over a millennium to become a city-state of dazzling power.
   建立在立于死水礁湖软泥区的木桩结构之上，威尼斯在千年后崛起成为一个拥有耀眼权力的城邦。

3. The Company is located in the Millennium town, a small Shanghai, known as the Universiade River New Town Industrial Park.
   本公司座落于千年古镇，有小上海之称的大运河畔的新市镇工业园区。

4. About the time the millennium babies started school and started a new stage of their life, my husband and I decided to downsize.
   就在这些千年宝宝入学并开始他们生活的新阶段的时候，我和丈夫决定节俭。

5. Women are absolutely at the heart of our families and our communities, they are also at the heart of the Millennium Development Goals.
   我女性绝对是我们家庭和社区的核心，她们同时还是千年发展目标计划的核心。

6. She shrugs off travel gate as "the first manifestation of an obsession for investigation that persisted into the next millennium. "
   她轻蔑地把旅游门事件说成是“第一次显示了延续到下个千年的调查偏执”。

7. The wind blew into a millennium, sand the desert sky, alone keep empty city, keep a decade long a meditation.
   风吹黄沙，吹成千年漫天的一片荒漠，独守空城，守了十年漫长的一个打坐。

8. "I name this the Dome Hotel, " says John Cohen, 72, as he makes his way through the vast Millennium Dome in Greenwich.
   72岁的约翰·科恩在前往宏伟的格林威治千禧穹顶时说：“我叫它‘穹顶旅馆’。”