modern-day

英[ˌmɒdn ˈdeɪ]美[ˌmɑːdərn ˈdeɪ]

adj.现代的；当代的；

例句

Day by day the situation is improving.情况在一天天地好转。

Things go on day by day.事情逐日进行着。

Ice changes into water rapidly on a hot day.天气炎热的时候, 冰很快就化为水。

A notoriously absent-minded professor was one day observed walking along the street with one foot continually in the gutter, the other on the pavement.有一天，人们看见一个有名的心不在焉的老师在路上走，他的一只脚一直踏在街沟里，另一只脚踩在人行道上。

In the swift the day before that year’s wheat harvest,a rainstorm threatened.在那一年麦收的前一天,一场暴雨眼看就要来临。

Exhausted by their exploits that day the two boys had supper and fell asleep, dead to the world.那天这两个男孩的英勇行为使他们疲惫不堪, 他们吃完晚饭倒头就睡, 而且睡得很沉。

My temper worsened as the day went on.今天我脾气越变越坏。

The old woman nagged (at) her daughter-in-law all day long.那老太婆一天到晚地挑剔儿媳妇的不是。

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。

Year after year I have had a letter from Arthur on New Year's Day.每年新年之际我都收到阿瑟的来信。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ADJ

现代的;当代的

Modern-day is used to refer to the new or modern aspects of a place, an activity, or a society.

例句

英英词典释义

Adjective

1. characteristic of the present;