modern

英[ˈmɒdn]美[ˈmɑːdərn]

adj.现代的，近代的，现代化的，新潮的；

比较级：more modern;

*高级：most modern;

例句

In Modern history, China had suffered greatly imperialist and colonialist invasion.中国在近代历史上，备受帝国主义和殖民主义的侵略、瓜分，人民饱受凌辱。

He feels quite at home in modern history.他通晓近代史。

particularly vexing aspects of modern life.现代生活中一些让人烦恼的社会视点

Our town has a modern sewerage system.我们城镇有一个现代化的下水道系统。

I'm not turned on by modern pop music.我对现代流行音乐不感兴趣。

We think of him as representing modern writers.我们认为他是现代作家的代表。

Modern music has broken away from 18th century rules.现代音乐摆脱了18世纪的规则。

Her ideas have lost all relevance to the modern world.她的想法与现代社会完全脱节。

This drama series is supposedly modern yet its characters live in a curiously dated world.这个系列剧应当是现代的，但剧中的角色却生活在一个奇特的过去世界里。

the greed that pervades modern society现代社会中普遍存在的贪婪

英语六级真题

They developed an interest in the origin of modern art forms.

Panini's Ancient Rome and Modern Rome represent the sights most prized, including celebrated Greco-Roman statues and views of famous ruins, fountains, and churches.

Designer sportswear was not modeled on that of Europe, as modern art would later be; it was genuinely invented and developed in America.

Closings were simple, practical, and accessible, as the modern woman depended on no personal maid to dress her.

Which makes it odd that the kitchen has become the heart of the modern house: what the great hall was to the medieval castle, the kitchen is to the 21stcentury home.

There is a view that modern humans are inevitably sowing the seeds of a global Grand Banks-style disaster.

It is regarded as the center of a modern home.

It has become something odd in a modern house.

Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.

Our modern workplaces also operate based on outdated time constraints.

Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity.

However, characteristics associated with modern consumer culture mean produce is often wasted through retail and customer behaviour.

The production and application of fertilisers and pesticides account for the largest part of energy use in the modern industrialised agricultural process

It is no longer important in modern times.

Because so many of our modern technologies and services depend on oil, nations, corporations, and institutions that control the trade in oil exercise extraordinary power

The author moved from Manhattan to rural Japan partly because he could live without modern transportation.

live without modern transportation

Modern urban life in rich countries is not well adapted to large families.

Personally I can't quite see the meaning in his modern works.

He is not quite impressed with modern paintings

Later working together in London, they laid the foundations of modern physics by showing that normal laws of cause and effect do not apply at the level of subatomic particles.

Unfortunately, most of the early popular African-American writers have been all but forgotten in modern times until now

I guess a lot of other people feel the way I do about modern art.

Sculpture is not a typical form of modern art

Modern art cannot express people's true feelings.

Many people do not appreciate modern art

What do we learn about modern Harrogate?

It is used in personal context, on radio broadcasts and in a number of publications as well as in translations of both modern works and classics.

According to Harry Vallentine, a Canadian engineer who is researching modern steam technology, a special tank measuring 2 by 10 metres could store over 750 kilowatt hours of energy as high pressure steam, enough to pull a two-cart train for an hour or so.

At the time, it became clear that the newly reunified Berlin would need a modern airport with far greater capacity than its existing airports.

Being a good team player is a central skill in our modern workplace.

Designer sportswear was not modeled on that of Europe, as" modern art" would later be; It was genuinely invented and developed in America.

It really made it possible for us to continue along the path toward modern humans in Africa.

Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the othe

The airport looks exactly like every other major modern airport in Europe, except for one big problem.

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modern family tells the story of a century of social change.

The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have survived in the modern world in distinctive, small communities.

The resulting steel appears to achieve a combination of strength and toughness that is comparable to that of modern steels that are very rich in alloy content and, therefore, very expensive.

These designers established the modern dress code, letting playsuits and other active wear outfits suffice for casual clothing, allowing pants to enter the wardrobe, and prizing rationalism and versatility in dress, in contradiction to dressing for an occ

These early ancestors of modern Eurasians dispersed into parts of the world that had more seasonal sunshine and much lower levels of sun radiation.

They are seen as abandoning both modern 34 conveniences and the American dream of success and progress.

Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ADJ

近代的;现代的

Modern means relating to the present time, for example the present decade or present century.

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ADJ-GRADED

现代化的;新式的;*新的

Something that is modern is new and involves the latest ideas or equipment.

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ADJ-GRADED

新潮的;时髦的;摩登的

People are sometimes described as modern when they have opinions or ways of behaviour that have not yet been accepted by most people in a society.

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ADJ

(艺术、舞蹈、音乐、建筑的风格)现代的，近代的

Modern is used to describe styles of art, dance, music, and architecture that have developed in recent times, in contrast to classical styles.

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英汉词典释义

adj.

现代的; 近代的

新式的, 时髦的, *新的

当代风格的, 现代派的

新式的；有别于传统的

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a contemporary person

2. a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

Adjective

1. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages;

2. relating to a recently developed fashion or style;

3. characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

4. ahead of the times;

行业词典

计算机： 【修】现代；