Contemporary
[kən'temp(ə)r(ər)ɪ] or [kən'tɛmpərɛri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person of nearly the same age as another.
(adj.) belonging to the present time; 'contemporary leaders' .
(adj.) characteristic of the present; 'contemporary trends in design'; 'the role of computers in modern-day medicine' .
整理:肯尼思--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
(a.) Of the same age; coeval.
(n.) One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
埃尔伯特編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Contemporaneous.
校對:鲁本
同義詞及反義詞：
[See COETANEOUS]
[See COETANEOUS]
克雷格編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Undoubtedly the change was mainly a product of contemporary conditions. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- This was mainly due to Arkwright, a contemporary of Hargreaves. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- More scholars are turned out in the City of the Sun in one year than by contemporary methods in ten or fifteen. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- His thought was probably very much at the level of a bright little contemporary boy of four or five. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The sheep and cattle strayed through the fields and corn,' says a contemporary, 'and there were none left who could drive them. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The play on his name which was made by his contemporary Herodicus (Aris. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- What does our dastardly contemporary mean? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Blanchard was a contemporary of Hall, and Hall, to perfect his breech-loader, was the first to invent machines for making its various parts. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- His fellow countryman and contemporary, Prof. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- They possessed a system of picture writing almost as developed as the contemporary writing of the Sumerians, but quite different in character. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The problem is to find something for the common man who is not interested in contemporary churches and who can't write sonnets. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He had been a contemporary of Metternich and was an old man with white hair and mustache and beautiful manners. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- We state these things here because they are facts, and a living and necessary part of a contemporary survey of human history. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The idea of a Promise gave to Judaism a quality no previous or contemporary religion displayed; it made Judaism historical and dramatic. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In this was the beginning of the work which has since made such a profound impression on contemporary life. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- They were scheming to outdo one another, to rob weaker contemporaries, to destroy rivals, so that they might for a brief interval swagger. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Watt and his contemporaries regarded heat as a material substance called Phlogiston. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Not much argument was needed to maintain the truth of a theory which to his own contemporaries seemed so natural and congenial. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- What ailed Don Quixote was that he and his contemporaries wanted different things; the only ideals that count are those which express the possible development of an existing force. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The 'Utopia' of Sir Thomas More is a surprising monument of his genius, and shows a reach of thought far beyond his contemporaries. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He was possessed of absolute KNOWLEDGE far beyond that of his contemporaries. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The whole treatise shows how deeply the idea of the Roman Empire was fixed in the minds of his contemporaries. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- VIII DAVY AND THE SAFETY-LAMP 1778-1829 Humphrey Davy, according to his contemporaries, could have chosen any one of several roads to fame. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
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