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modernity

/mo-dur-ni-tee, moh-/US // mɒˈdɜr nɪ ti, moʊ- //UK // (mɒˈdɜːnɪtɪ) //

现代性,代性,现代化,现实性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mo·der·ni·ties.

    • : the quality of being modern.
    • : something modern.

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Examples

  • For Thomas — who died in 1978 but lived long enough to go from what she called “horse and buggy times” to the 1969 moon landing — the rush of modernity demanded expression.

  • But, in a century in which the British monarchy faced a modernity that did not always accord easily with its traditions, he helped his Queen and wife become the monarch who defined a new era for her nation.

  • The Wilderness Act—enacted to, essentially, protect our national forests and parks from modernity—turns 50 today.

  • He thinks they are larger problems of cultural modernity that go back at least 100 years.

  • The lesson of Victorian London is that modernity isn't built one luxury high-rise at a time.

  • He is a man of deep faith and brilliant intellect, with a healthy dose of modernity and realism.

  • That glosses with modernity the 19th century laissez fair case against economic and social justice.

  • And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have powers of their own which mere “modernity” cannot kill.

  • The city is strong in contrast from every aspect, modernity nudging and crowding antiquity.

  • Van B. There's an ingenuous modernity about our friend's historical speculations that is highly refreshing.

  • But why visit the sins of modernity upon an international language?

  • Then comes an objection to modernity of form, and some reasons for that objection that suggest a very interesting speculation.