contemporary
- adj.当代的;现代的;同一时代的;属同时期的
- n.同代人;同龄人;同辈人
复数： contemporaries
con- 共同,一起 + tempor 时间 + -ary ...的
contemporaryadj.
属同时期的；同一时代的
belonging to the same time
We have no contemporary account of the battle (= written near the time that it happened) .
我们没有当时人们对这一战役的记载。
He was contemporary with the dramatist Congreve.
他与剧作家康格里夫属于同一时代。
当代的；现代的
belonging to the present time
life in contemporary Britain
当代英国的生活
contemporary fiction/music/dance
当代小说 / 音乐 / 舞蹈
noun
同代人；同辈人；同龄人
a person who lives or lived at the same time as sb else, especially sb who is about the same age
She and I were contemporaries at college.
她和我在大学是同学。
He was a contemporary of Freud and may have known him.
他是弗洛伊德的同代人，可能认识弗洛伊德。
contemporary
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ADJ-GRADED 当代的;现代的
Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time.She writes a lot of contemporary music for people like Whitney Houston...
她给像惠特尼·休斯敦这样的人写了很多当代音乐作品。
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ADJ 同时发生的;同时期的;同时代的
Contemporary people or things were alive or happened at the same time as something else you are talking about....drawing upon official records and the reports of contemporary witnesses.
利用官方的记录与当时的见证者的报告
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N-COUNT 同时期的人;同时代的人
Someone's contemporary is a person who is or was alive at the same time as them.Like most of my contemporaries, I grew up in a vastly different world.
和大多数同辈人一样，我生长在一个截然不同的世界。
noun
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- a person of nearly the same age as another
- Synonym: coeval
adj
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- belonging to the present time
- contemporary leaders
- Synonym: present-day(a)
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- characteristic of the present
- contemporary trends in design
- the role of computers in modern-day medicine
- Synonym: modern-day
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- occurring in the same period of time
- a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation
- the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart
- Synonym: contemporaneous
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The telephone and the gramophone were contemporary .
电话和留声机是同一时代的产物。
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Dr Johnson was considered so great a talker that a contemporary compared his conversation to Titian 's painting .
Johnson博士被认为是如此伟大的一位言谈家，其会话与同一时代的Titan的绘画一样伟大。
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Consumption rather than saving has become the central feature of contemporary societies .
现代社会的主要特征是消费而不是储蓄。
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He was a contemporary of Freud and may have known him .
他是弗洛伊德的同代人，可能认识弗洛伊德。
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We have no contemporary account of the battle .
我们没有当时人们对这一战役的记载。
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Dickens was in a different class from most of his contemporaries .
与大多数的同代作家相比，狄更斯更为出类拔萃。
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Contemporary dance is coming onto the arts scene again after a long fallow period .
当代舞蹈经过一段长时期销声匿迹以后现在又回到了艺术舞台。
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Contemporary accounts attest to his courage and determination .
当时的报道证实了他的勇气和决心。
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She and I were contemporaries at college .
她和我在大学是同学。
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She patronizes many contemporary British artists .
她赞助许多英国当代艺术家。
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He was contemporary with the dramatist Congreve .
他与剧作家康格里夫属于同一时代。
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I had mentioned that I didn 't really like contemporary music
我说过，我其实并不喜欢当代音乐。
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Their marriage is a delicate balance between traditional and contemporary values
他们的婚姻在传统和现代价值观之间保持着微妙平衡。
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Only the names are ancient ; the characters are modern and contemporary .
只有姓名是古代的；人物都是现代的、摩登的。
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His prices rank high among those of other contemporary photographers
在当代摄影师当中，他的要价很高。
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We weren 't out to design a contemporary utopia .
我们并不是要设计一个现代乌托邦。
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Perhaps he should have a more updated look , a more contemporary style
也许他应该有一个更新的形象，更具时代性的风格。
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Contemporary art has taken a huge leap forward in the last five or six years .
当代艺术在过去五六年间突飞猛进。
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She writes a lot of contemporary music for people like Whitney Houston
她给像惠特尼·休斯敦这样的人写了很多当代音乐作品。
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Perhaps I 'm a bit more experienced about life than my contemporaries .
可能我比同龄人更有生活经验。
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He gets huge pleasure from ballet and contemporary dance .
他从芭蕾和现代舞中得到极大的快乐。
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The aim of the course is to help students to comprehend the structure of contemporary political and social systems .
这门课程旨在帮助学生了解当代政治与社会体制的结构。
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The museum contains 6,000 contemporary and modern artworks .
博物馆收藏了6,000件近现代艺术作品。
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Like most of my contemporaries , I grew up in a vastly different world .
和大多数同辈人一样，我生长在一个截然不同的世界。
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A lot of contemporary music is virtually inaccessible .
许多当代音乐几乎难以理解。
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Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness .
当代非洲电影在活力和新颖性上颇足称道。
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This comedy of contemporary manners is told with compassion and acid humour .
这部当代风尚喜剧杂糅了悲悯的情怀和尖酸的幽默。
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A significant exhibition of contemporary sculpture will be on view at the Portland Gallery .
一场关于当代雕塑的重要展览即将在波特兰美术馆开展。
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Audiences were going to be polled on which of three pieces of contemporary music they liked best
将对观众进行民意调查，询问他们在3部当代音乐作品中最喜欢哪一部。
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Unfortunately historic American fiction is constantly being used as a stick to beat contemporary British writers with .
不幸的是，经典的美国小说经常被用来作为批评当代英国作家的依据。
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