over long centuriesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Kanoha group is a painter group mainly concerned with consanguinity such as parents or brothers; it reigned over the nation's realm of art for as long as four centuries, a period unequaled anywhere in the world.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

狩野派は、親・兄弟などの血族関係を主軸とした画家集団で、約4世紀間の長期にわたって一国の画壇に君臨したという点で、世界的にも他にほとんど例を見ないものである。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

It was this deficiency, I considered, while running over in thought the perfect keeping of the character of the premises with the accredited character of the people, and while speculating upon the possible influence which the one, in the long lapse of centuries, might have exercised upon the other発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

その屋敷の特質と、一般に知られているこの一家の人々の特質とが、完全に調和していることを思い浮べながら、また数世紀も経過するあいだにその一方が他方に与えた影響について思いめぐらしながら、私は次のように考えた、 - Edgar Allan Poe『アッシャー家の崩壊』

However, as philological study has developed in modern times, many people have pointed out that, since Buddhist thought developed in stages, entire sutras of Buddhism, including Theravada, were established gradually over periods as long as several centuries to begin with, and that the oldest sutras of Hokuden (Mahayana) Buddhism and Nanden Buddhism (Buddhism that spread from India to Sri Lanka and Southeast Asian countries such as Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia) do not contain description of 'Nyozegamon' (I heard this); Nakamoto TOMINAGA, who dealt with the 'Hokke-kyo Sutra (the Lotus Sutra) has no meaning theory', is one such person.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

しかし近代に入ると文献学的研究が進み、仏教思想は段階的に発展したもので、そもそも上座部をも含む仏教の経典全体が数世紀という長時間をかけて徐々に成立してきたものであるだけでなく、北伝・南伝の最古の教典には「如是我聞」の記述が見られないことが日本でも「法華経無内容説」を唱えた富永仲基によって指摘されている。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス