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contemporary

/kuhn-tem-puh-rer-ee/US // kənˈtɛm pəˌrɛr i //UK // (kənˈtɛmprərɪ) //

当代,当代人,当代的,当代化

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 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.
    • : of about the same age or date: a Georgian table with a contemporary wig stand.
    • : of the present time; modern: a lecture on the contemporary novel.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural con·tem·po·rar·ies.

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

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.modern

Examples

  • Brokerages get paid for their customers’ orders from market makers—contemporary versions of what Madoff’s trading company was.

  • If Robins had been a contemporary of Peter Gethers, he might have been a candidate for the Rotisserie League.

  • In contemporary times, researchers have sought to understand the ways in which rituals bind people together.

  • Price does not contain all relevant information for many shoppers in a contemporary supermarket.

  • Which is why Haile’s contemporaries have been mostly forgiving about Scroll, the ad-free subscription service he teased for three years before finally launching widely six months ago.

  • Some contemporary police have military backgrounds to fall back on.

  • That goes for its contemporary membership roster as well as for the photographers represented in the exhibition.

  • Paris as depicted by contemporary photography appears… lackluster.

  • But contemporary classical music has changed, and the field is now spawning many appealing and genre-bending works.

  • According to contemporary reports, at several of the truces, there were rough soccer matches between the German and British sides.

  • He was contemporary with Milton, and preferred before him by critics of the day, but has now sunk into oblivion.

  • But while the older schools of art delighted him, he followed with no less attention the movement of contemporary painting.

  • Why therefore did the elder Amati, contemporary and probably pupil of Gaspar di Salo, change the model and size of the instrument?

  • We gather that in our contemporary's opinion it is high time that our Universities recognised "the writing on the wall."

  • Decollat,” says a contemporary document, with a grim succinctness, “in castrum Londin: vulgo turris appellatur.