虚心求教翻译的问题。

riceflower (2008-12-26 15:51:24) 评论 (2)

he wrote in a humorous essay titled The Awful German Language after a visit to imperial Germany in the 1880s.
在这里in the 1880s 该翻译成1880年还是19世纪80年代。为啥是1880s 而不是1880?