contemporaries / kənˈtɛm pəˌrɛr i /

当代人同时代人同时代的人同代人

contemporaries2 个定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  2. of about the same age or date: a Georgian table with a contemporary wig stand.
  3. of the present time; modern: a lecture on the contemporary novel.
n. 名词 noun

plural con·tem·po·rar·ies.

  1. a person belonging to the same time or period with another or others.
  2. a person of the same age as another.

contemporaries 近义词

contemporaries

等同于 coequal

contemporaries 的近义词 5
contemporaries

等同于 generation

contemporaries 的近义词 14
contemporaries 的反义词 1

更多contemporaries例句

  1. What sets him apart from so many of his contemporaries was his rare immunity from the influence of prevailing ideas.
  2. Some of the authors most revered by their contemporaries now languish in relative obscurity.
  3. Fans of Virginia Woolf may enjoy the following list of books written by her less famous female contemporaries.
  4. Cummings, however, has proven far more controversial and arguably less palatable than her contemporaries.
  5. Their laptop-less contemporaries may also get distracted by what their friends are looking at.
  6. His letters are simply laughable, especially his characters of contemporaries.
  7. Map and Chrétien were certainly contemporaries, but in neither case do we know the date of birth.
  8. The proofs you have given so far are but solemn pledges to outdo all your contemporaries.
  9. If his book is bad for our times and for us, it was very good for his contemporaries, and his religion was still better.
  10. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.