Definition of modern in English:

modern

adjective ˈmɒd(ə)nˈmɑdərn

1Relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past.
现代的，近代的
the pace of modern life
现代生活的步伐。
modern European history
中国近代史。
Example sentencesExamples
- The play takes the audience through a remarkable journey from past to modern South Africa by means of dance and song.
- Two modern women present a spirited interpretation of a Chinese folk tale
- Interestingly the exhibitions link past and present with some modern artefacts and photos on display.
- Some are remote from modern civilisation, others survive cheek by jowl with spreading towns and motorways.
- The comment remains true of periods of the much more recent past, including Australian social history of the modern period.
- It would be unusual for a modern historian simply to present a vignette such as the one above, and to say nothing more.
- This lost generation is perhaps the most unempowered generation in modern Bahamian history.
- He didn't know why, but it seemed like trust was becoming a thing of the past in the modern world of people today.
- Before then, I though that our modern society had moved past such things but, sadly, it has not.
- A walk down Tokyo's main thoroughfares presents the modern observer with conflicting pictures.
- Over the past decades, modern encroachments and thoughtless building have marred the historic fabric of the city.
- Suddenly you are aware of all the terrible dangers this modern world presents to the barely-walking.
- Far from exclusively singling out the Nazi regime, the modern age is presented as singularly tyrannical and repressive.
- All the groupings and distinctions of modern feminism were present then.
- The grey bridges stood silently above the rivers, with the rubbish of modern life floating past occasionally.
- In this way, she presents a refreshing alternative to official and political histories of modern India.
- A book that's not bad in context that would fall flat presented in modern terms.
- He has chosen nine areas of research to present his analysis of modern Japan.
- Let us turn to the experience of rear services support in military events that took place both in the past and in modern Russia.
- He draws attention to survivals of shamanistic cults from early modern times to the present.
Synonyms
present-day, contemporary, present-time, present, current, twenty-first-century, latter-day, recent, latest
1. 1.1 Characterized by or using the most up-to-date techniques, ideas, or equipment.
  现代化的；新潮的；新式的
  they do not have modern weapons
  他们没有新式武器。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Without modern technology and test equipment, they came pretty close to the answers that pilots ask every day.
  Be happy to move with the times - be more modern and embrace more modern equipment and technology.
  With modern technology and equipment, it is hoped that Chinese scientists develop new drugs with patents.
  Any form of electoral fraud is a criminal offence so safeguards are needed, and as modern technology progresses, it's now a barcode.
  They need a break, which modern technology and management techniques can bring about.
  It was an interesting display of modern equipment and technology.
  One is that while modern ideas and technology have helped get us into this mess, we will still need them to get us out.
  The small fields we see around us, which tourists come to look at, are not helpful when it comes to modern equipment and cultivation techniques.
  One is the setting up of a nationalised digital library with modern equipment, which could be accessed by people from all walks of life.
  It will include a library and staff room and have modern information technology equipment, as well as provision for a wildlife area.
  I can't imagine for a moment that these sports schools would possess modern technical equipment.
  This legislation takes account of modern techniques and advances in technology over the last few years.
  Rapid advances in modern technology are bringing the physical merger of man and machine closer to reality.
  The modern equipment makes it possible to find out the frequency of a word in a database of any large number, say 10 million words.
  The dizzying advances of modern technology have destroyed these assumptions.
  It is humbling to remember that the two lives saved that day weren't due to fancy new techniques or expensive modern technology.
  While both guns celebrate the past, each one brings modern techniques and ideas into play.
  Give troops the very best training and most modern weapons and equipment.
  Even with modern technology and equipment, the threat of death is very real.
  The roof has been repaired and modern kitchen equipment installed.
  Synonyms
  fashionable, in fashion, in, in style, in vogue, up to date, up to the minute, all the rage, trendsetting, stylish, voguish, modish, chic, smart, the latest, new, newest, newfangled, new-fashioned, fresh, modernistic, advanced, progressive, forward-looking
  French à la mode
  informal trendy, cool, flash, with it, swinging, now, hip, happening, snazzy, natty, nifty, go-ahead
  North American informal kicking, kicky, tony, fly, spiffy, sassy, stylin'
2. 1.2attributive Denoting the form of a language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form.
  （语言）近代的，现代的
  modern German
  近代德语。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In modern French, the term has come to be used for portable barbed wire entanglements.
  The winning language was the langue d' oil spoken by the Francs, which evolved into modern French.
  In his translations O'Riordain generally avoids words that have passed out of use in the modern language.
  Genuinely upset by the waiter's ignorance of dead languages my teacher grudgingly had to settle for ordering in the modern vernacular.
  It appeared to share some similarities to the modern Tibetan language, but far more complex.
  It was Sir Thomas More who thrust the words Utopia and Utopian into the canon of modern language.
  Although much of our modern language comes from the language of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, very few Christian names do.
  The event also saw the launch of a new Book of Common Prayer, containing services in traditional and modern language.
  I find that surprising, because there was an opportunity to completely redraft that part into modern language.
  Most writers regretted the decline of modern language.
  The Italian was the only modern language which possessed anything that could be called a literature.
  Some examples of words which never made it into the modern language.
  By merely dubbing it as elitist or foreign we cannot wish away the fact that it is as much a part of our heritage as any other modern Indian language.
  Her eyes fell on a passage in standard modern French, in a messy hand, as though it had been written in haste.
  He was particularly committed to the revitalization of Hebrew as a modern, spoken language.
  If that's true, the evolution of recursion may have brought modern language into existence.
  All of the modern vernaculars spoken in Northern India today are direct descendants of Sanskrit and Prakrit.
  Stressing that Samskrit is indeed a modern language, she says the aim of the Samskrita Bharati is to popularise the language.
3. 1.3attributive Denoting a current or recent style or trend in art, architecture, or other cultural activity marked by a significant departure from traditional styles and values.
  （艺术、建筑等）现代派的
  Matisse's contribution to modern art
  马蒂斯对现代派艺术的贡献。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She visited the exhibition daily, and it was there that she gained her first broad introduction to modern art.
  Many churches built today combine traditional and modern architectural styles.
  The modernist belief that modern art should repudiate the past has been jettisoned.
  He called on architects to combine traditional Chinese styles with modern trends.
  But none of them as a centre for Indian contemporary art or modern architecture.
  It works well with black-and-white photography and abstract and modern art.
  Traditional and modern art performances are put on during holidays and the Muslim post-fasting festivities.
  It was a marriage of innovation and imagination that brought to life a blend of traditional and modern art.
  He also has some pen drawings displayed, which are a mix of traditional and modern styles.
  Hardly anything in modern art is more familiar than a Modigliani painting.
  He was respected as one of the first art historians to apply the apparatus of traditional scholarship to modern art.
  The fusion of old-fashioned values and modern architecture?
  Degas was an artist torn between traditional art and the modern impressionist movement.
  Innovation in art is not a new phenomenon - we have seen paintings evolve through the ages from traditional to modern art.
  But its range is far wider, and it includes a very significant section devoted to modern and contemporary art.
  He worked in a variety of styles, often parodying modes of both traditional and modern painting.
  The exhibition of the year brings together major masterpieces by the two giants of modern art, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
  Contemporary sculptors often blend traditional styles with more modern ones.
  Manchester is a hotbed of modern architecture and art.
  Before the modern period, the art of the grotesque was often placed in a religious context.

noun ˈmɒd(ə)nˈmɑdərn

usually moderns

A person who advocates or practises a departure from traditional styles or values.
主张现代风格的人；宣扬现代价值观的人
they were moderns, they must not look back towards the old generation
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm not one of those paranoid moderns who thinks the world is covered in an invisible miasma of writhing disease; I know it is.
- Like most moderns, I have become largely indifferent to filmic violence.
- It's precisely because the attitudes toward king and empire feel right for 1805 that we feel transported to another reality, admitted to a drama that plays out as if we moderns weren't there.
- Do we exist to be a church for moderns or postmoderns or are we willing to accept the compromises that will allow us to be a diverse community of both.
- We moderns tend to unthinkingly equate the quest for verisimilitude with the quest for historical accuracy, yet here it clearly is intended to serve the heart, and not the head.
- That contrast, at least, is not a fault, but an achievement, as profound as any to be heard in later moderns and modernists.
- Not surprisingly, many moderns are turned off by this.
- In literature, on the other hand, we do read the ancients as well as the moderns, because old works of literature don't become obsolete when new ones are published.
- While we moderns have lost the distinction between the pleasures and the gratifications, the ancient Greeks and the Romans of Hellenistic bent were keen on it.
- The common bond is in the fact that ancients and moderns have both been miserable about existence, about everything, while mediaevals were happy about that at least.
- However, the theory that went with it was rather alien to moderns.
- In contrast to the ancients, the moderns were the foolish lovers of truth and liberty; they believed in the natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- And while the church has made only the barest concessions to modernity, the moderns love the church - at least to gawk at.
- For, as I say, we moderns believe in nothing: the nothingness of the will miraculously giving itself form by mastering the nothingness of the world.
- Not so with those moderns whose primary scientific values are oriented to the predictable future, and who often relegate the past to, well, simply history.
- The romantics place former greats at the top, while those with little feel for history or tradition opt for the moderns.
- Are we moderns so different in this respect from traditional peoples?
- Now we moderns can have the meaning and miss the experience.
- And of course what we have as historian is all this hagiographical stuff that's hard for us as moderns to believe, but something went on.
- The fundamental distinction that pervades and informs all of his work is that between the ancients and the moderns.

Derivatives

modernly

adverb

As in every modernly held view, there are significant historical antecedents.
Example sentencesExamples
- You can spend one or two days here living in the villas on the mountains, which, unfortunately, are modernly designed.
- I simply want to know how you feel about them modernly.
- The only differences were that the people were dressed much more modernly and the entire town was crammed together so there was absolutely no space between buildings.
- I do not want to criticize the government for inviting foreign designers to plan these suburban projects, which will benefit the farming population by providing them with clean and modernly equipped apartments.
- My hair color also clashed with my skin color, since after all, my hair was black and cut modernly short.

modernness

noun ˈmɒd(ə)nnəsˈmɑdərnˌnəs

The unorthodox phrasing abstracts the original material and gives the composition an edgy modernness.
Example sentencesExamples
- It gave the coupe a feeling of elegance and modernness.
- The whole collection was about the moderness of New York City, and the modernness of the buildings.
- The real origin of all these flags is severely obfuscated by myth and legend, in spite of its relative modernness and high popularity.
- As noted above, creationists do not have a really satisfactory explanation for the increasing modernness of fossils.

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin modernus, from Latin modo 'just now'.

Modern is from late Latin modernus, from Latin modo ‘just now’.

Rhymes

Culloden, hodden, sodden, trodden

Definition of modern in US English:

modern

adjectiveˈmädərnˈmɑdərn

1Relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past.
现代的，近代的
the pace of modern life
现代生活的步伐。
modern U.S. history
中国近代史。
Example sentencesExamples
- Suddenly you are aware of all the terrible dangers this modern world presents to the barely-walking.
- Before then, I though that our modern society had moved past such things but, sadly, it has not.
- The comment remains true of periods of the much more recent past, including Australian social history of the modern period.
- He draws attention to survivals of shamanistic cults from early modern times to the present.
- Some are remote from modern civilisation, others survive cheek by jowl with spreading towns and motorways.
- The grey bridges stood silently above the rivers, with the rubbish of modern life floating past occasionally.
- The play takes the audience through a remarkable journey from past to modern South Africa by means of dance and song.
- He didn't know why, but it seemed like trust was becoming a thing of the past in the modern world of people today.
- A book that's not bad in context that would fall flat presented in modern terms.
- Over the past decades, modern encroachments and thoughtless building have marred the historic fabric of the city.
- All the groupings and distinctions of modern feminism were present then.
- In this way, she presents a refreshing alternative to official and political histories of modern India.
- Let us turn to the experience of rear services support in military events that took place both in the past and in modern Russia.
- Two modern women present a spirited interpretation of a Chinese folk tale
- It would be unusual for a modern historian simply to present a vignette such as the one above, and to say nothing more.
- Far from exclusively singling out the Nazi regime, the modern age is presented as singularly tyrannical and repressive.
- A walk down Tokyo's main thoroughfares presents the modern observer with conflicting pictures.
- He has chosen nine areas of research to present his analysis of modern Japan.
- Interestingly the exhibitions link past and present with some modern artefacts and photos on display.
- This lost generation is perhaps the most unempowered generation in modern Bahamian history.
Synonyms
present-day, contemporary, present-time, present, current, twenty-first-century, latter-day, recent, latest
1. 1.1 Characterized by or using the most up-to-date techniques, ideas, or equipment.
  现代化的；新潮的；新式的
  they do not have modern weapons
  他们没有新式武器。
  Example sentencesExamples
  One is that while modern ideas and technology have helped get us into this mess, we will still need them to get us out.
  Even with modern technology and equipment, the threat of death is very real.
  It will include a library and staff room and have modern information technology equipment, as well as provision for a wildlife area.
  Without modern technology and test equipment, they came pretty close to the answers that pilots ask every day.
  Be happy to move with the times - be more modern and embrace more modern equipment and technology.
  It is humbling to remember that the two lives saved that day weren't due to fancy new techniques or expensive modern technology.
  The small fields we see around us, which tourists come to look at, are not helpful when it comes to modern equipment and cultivation techniques.
  Any form of electoral fraud is a criminal offence so safeguards are needed, and as modern technology progresses, it's now a barcode.
  Rapid advances in modern technology are bringing the physical merger of man and machine closer to reality.
  The modern equipment makes it possible to find out the frequency of a word in a database of any large number, say 10 million words.
  I can't imagine for a moment that these sports schools would possess modern technical equipment.
  While both guns celebrate the past, each one brings modern techniques and ideas into play.
  With modern technology and equipment, it is hoped that Chinese scientists develop new drugs with patents.
  One is the setting up of a nationalised digital library with modern equipment, which could be accessed by people from all walks of life.
  It was an interesting display of modern equipment and technology.
  The dizzying advances of modern technology have destroyed these assumptions.
  This legislation takes account of modern techniques and advances in technology over the last few years.
  They need a break, which modern technology and management techniques can bring about.
  Give troops the very best training and most modern weapons and equipment.
  The roof has been repaired and modern kitchen equipment installed.
  Synonyms
  fashionable, in fashion, in, in style, in vogue, up to date, up to the minute, all the rage, trendsetting, stylish, voguish, modish, chic, smart, the latest, new, newest, newfangled, new-fashioned, fresh, modernistic, advanced, progressive, forward-looking
2. 1.2attributive Denoting the form of a language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form.
  （语言）近代的，现代的
  modern German
  近代德语。
  Example sentencesExamples
  All of the modern vernaculars spoken in Northern India today are direct descendants of Sanskrit and Prakrit.
  Genuinely upset by the waiter's ignorance of dead languages my teacher grudgingly had to settle for ordering in the modern vernacular.
  In modern French, the term has come to be used for portable barbed wire entanglements.
  I find that surprising, because there was an opportunity to completely redraft that part into modern language.
  Stressing that Samskrit is indeed a modern language, she says the aim of the Samskrita Bharati is to popularise the language.
  It was Sir Thomas More who thrust the words Utopia and Utopian into the canon of modern language.
  The winning language was the langue d' oil spoken by the Francs, which evolved into modern French.
  Most writers regretted the decline of modern language.
  It appeared to share some similarities to the modern Tibetan language, but far more complex.
  He was particularly committed to the revitalization of Hebrew as a modern, spoken language.
  The event also saw the launch of a new Book of Common Prayer, containing services in traditional and modern language.
  Her eyes fell on a passage in standard modern French, in a messy hand, as though it had been written in haste.
  Some examples of words which never made it into the modern language.
  By merely dubbing it as elitist or foreign we cannot wish away the fact that it is as much a part of our heritage as any other modern Indian language.
  Although much of our modern language comes from the language of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, very few Christian names do.
  The Italian was the only modern language which possessed anything that could be called a literature.
  In his translations O'Riordain generally avoids words that have passed out of use in the modern language.
  If that's true, the evolution of recursion may have brought modern language into existence.
3. 1.3attributive Denoting a current or recent style or trend in art, architecture, or other cultural activity marked by a significant departure from traditional styles and values.
  （艺术、建筑等）现代派的
  Matisse's contribution to modern art
  马蒂斯对现代派艺术的贡献。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Many churches built today combine traditional and modern architectural styles.
  He also has some pen drawings displayed, which are a mix of traditional and modern styles.
  Contemporary sculptors often blend traditional styles with more modern ones.
  Degas was an artist torn between traditional art and the modern impressionist movement.
  Innovation in art is not a new phenomenon - we have seen paintings evolve through the ages from traditional to modern art.
  He called on architects to combine traditional Chinese styles with modern trends.
  Traditional and modern art performances are put on during holidays and the Muslim post-fasting festivities.
  Hardly anything in modern art is more familiar than a Modigliani painting.
  She visited the exhibition daily, and it was there that she gained her first broad introduction to modern art.
  He was respected as one of the first art historians to apply the apparatus of traditional scholarship to modern art.
  He worked in a variety of styles, often parodying modes of both traditional and modern painting.
  It was a marriage of innovation and imagination that brought to life a blend of traditional and modern art.
  The fusion of old-fashioned values and modern architecture?
  It works well with black-and-white photography and abstract and modern art.
  But its range is far wider, and it includes a very significant section devoted to modern and contemporary art.
  The exhibition of the year brings together major masterpieces by the two giants of modern art, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
  Manchester is a hotbed of modern architecture and art.
  But none of them as a centre for Indian contemporary art or modern architecture.
  Before the modern period, the art of the grotesque was often placed in a religious context.
  The modernist belief that modern art should repudiate the past has been jettisoned.

nounˈmädərnˈmɑdərn

usually moderns

A person who advocates or practices a departure from traditional styles or values.
主张现代风格的人；宣扬现代价值观的人
Example sentencesExamples
- Do we exist to be a church for moderns or postmoderns or are we willing to accept the compromises that will allow us to be a diverse community of both.
- In literature, on the other hand, we do read the ancients as well as the moderns, because old works of literature don't become obsolete when new ones are published.
- For, as I say, we moderns believe in nothing: the nothingness of the will miraculously giving itself form by mastering the nothingness of the world.
- And while the church has made only the barest concessions to modernity, the moderns love the church - at least to gawk at.
- It's precisely because the attitudes toward king and empire feel right for 1805 that we feel transported to another reality, admitted to a drama that plays out as if we moderns weren't there.
- I'm not one of those paranoid moderns who thinks the world is covered in an invisible miasma of writhing disease; I know it is.
- And of course what we have as historian is all this hagiographical stuff that's hard for us as moderns to believe, but something went on.
- While we moderns have lost the distinction between the pleasures and the gratifications, the ancient Greeks and the Romans of Hellenistic bent were keen on it.
- Not surprisingly, many moderns are turned off by this.
- The common bond is in the fact that ancients and moderns have both been miserable about existence, about everything, while mediaevals were happy about that at least.
- The romantics place former greats at the top, while those with little feel for history or tradition opt for the moderns.
- Now we moderns can have the meaning and miss the experience.
- The fundamental distinction that pervades and informs all of his work is that between the ancients and the moderns.
- In contrast to the ancients, the moderns were the foolish lovers of truth and liberty; they believed in the natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Like most moderns, I have become largely indifferent to filmic violence.
- That contrast, at least, is not a fault, but an achievement, as profound as any to be heard in later moderns and modernists.
- However, the theory that went with it was rather alien to moderns.
- Not so with those moderns whose primary scientific values are oriented to the predictable future, and who often relegate the past to, well, simply history.
- We moderns tend to unthinkingly equate the quest for verisimilitude with the quest for historical accuracy, yet here it clearly is intended to serve the heart, and not the head.
- Are we moderns so different in this respect from traditional peoples?

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin modernus, from Latin modo ‘just now’.

词汇	modern
释义	Definition of modern in English: modern adjective ˈmɒd(ə)nˈmɑdərn 1Relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past. 现代的，近代的 the pace of modern life 现代生活的步伐。 modern European history 中国近代史。 Example sentencesExamples The play takes the audience through a remarkable journey from past to modern South Africa by means of dance and song. Two modern women present a spirited interpretation of a Chinese folk tale Interestingly the exhibitions link past and present with some modern artefacts and photos on display. Some are remote from modern civilisation, others survive cheek by jowl with spreading towns and motorways. The comment remains true of periods of the much more recent past, including Australian social history of the modern period. It would be unusual for a modern historian simply to present a vignette such as the one above, and to say nothing more. This lost generation is perhaps the most unempowered generation in modern Bahamian history. He didn't know why, but it seemed like trust was becoming a thing of the past in the modern world of people today. Before then, I though that our modern society had moved past such things but, sadly, it has not. A walk down Tokyo's main thoroughfares presents the modern observer with conflicting pictures. Over the past decades, modern encroachments and thoughtless building have marred the historic fabric of the city. Suddenly you are aware of all the terrible dangers this modern world presents to the barely-walking. Far from exclusively singling out the Nazi regime, the modern age is presented as singularly tyrannical and repressive. All the groupings and distinctions of modern feminism were present then. The grey bridges stood silently above the rivers, with the rubbish of modern life floating past occasionally. In this way, she presents a refreshing alternative to official and political histories of modern India. A book that's not bad in context that would fall flat presented in modern terms. He has chosen nine areas of research to present his analysis of modern Japan. Let us turn to the experience of rear services support in military events that took place both in the past and in modern Russia. He draws attention to survivals of shamanistic cults from early modern times to the present. Synonyms present-day, contemporary, present-time, present, current, twenty-first-century, latter-day, recent, latest 1.1 Characterized by or using the most up-to-date techniques, ideas, or equipment. 现代化的；新潮的；新式的 they do not have modern weapons 他们没有新式武器。 Example sentencesExamples Without modern technology and test equipment, they came pretty close to the answers that pilots ask every day. Be happy to move with the times - be more modern and embrace more modern equipment and technology. With modern technology and equipment, it is hoped that Chinese scientists develop new drugs with patents. Any form of electoral fraud is a criminal offence so safeguards are needed, and as modern technology progresses, it's now a barcode. They need a break, which modern technology and management techniques can bring about. It was an interesting display of modern equipment and technology. One is that while modern ideas and technology have helped get us into this mess, we will still need them to get us out. The small fields we see around us, which tourists come to look at, are not helpful when it comes to modern equipment and cultivation techniques. One is the setting up of a nationalised digital library with modern equipment, which could be accessed by people from all walks of life. It will include a library and staff room and have modern information technology equipment, as well as provision for a wildlife area. I can't imagine for a moment that these sports schools would possess modern technical equipment. This legislation takes account of modern techniques and advances in technology over the last few years. Rapid advances in modern technology are bringing the physical merger of man and machine closer to reality. The modern equipment makes it possible to find out the frequency of a word in a database of any large number, say 10 million words. The dizzying advances of modern technology have destroyed these assumptions. It is humbling to remember that the two lives saved that day weren't due to fancy new techniques or expensive modern technology. While both guns celebrate the past, each one brings modern techniques and ideas into play. Give troops the very best training and most modern weapons and equipment. Even with modern technology and equipment, the threat of death is very real. The roof has been repaired and modern kitchen equipment installed. Synonyms fashionable, in fashion, in, in style, in vogue, up to date, up to the minute, all the rage, trendsetting, stylish, voguish, modish, chic, smart, the latest, new, newest, newfangled, new-fashioned, fresh, modernistic, advanced, progressive, forward-looking French à la mode informal trendy, cool, flash, with it, swinging, now, hip, happening, snazzy, natty, nifty, go-ahead North American informal kicking, kicky, tony, fly, spiffy, sassy, stylin' 1.2attributive Denoting the form of a language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form. （语言）近代的，现代的 modern German 近代德语。 Example sentencesExamples In modern French, the term has come to be used for portable barbed wire entanglements. The winning language was the langue d' oil spoken by the Francs, which evolved into modern French. In his translations O'Riordain generally avoids words that have passed out of use in the modern language. Genuinely upset by the waiter's ignorance of dead languages my teacher grudgingly had to settle for ordering in the modern vernacular. It appeared to share some similarities to the modern Tibetan language, but far more complex. It was Sir Thomas More who thrust the words Utopia and Utopian into the canon of modern language. Although much of our modern language comes from the language of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, very few Christian names do. The event also saw the launch of a new Book of Common Prayer, containing services in traditional and modern language. I find that surprising, because there was an opportunity to completely redraft that part into modern language. Most writers regretted the decline of modern language. The Italian was the only modern language which possessed anything that could be called a literature. Some examples of words which never made it into the modern language. By merely dubbing it as elitist or foreign we cannot wish away the fact that it is as much a part of our heritage as any other modern Indian language. Her eyes fell on a passage in standard modern French, in a messy hand, as though it had been written in haste. He was particularly committed to the revitalization of Hebrew as a modern, spoken language. If that's true, the evolution of recursion may have brought modern language into existence. All of the modern vernaculars spoken in Northern India today are direct descendants of Sanskrit and Prakrit. Stressing that Samskrit is indeed a modern language, she says the aim of the Samskrita Bharati is to popularise the language. 1.3attributive Denoting a current or recent style or trend in art, architecture, or other cultural activity marked by a significant departure from traditional styles and values. （艺术、建筑等）现代派的 Matisse's contribution to modern art 马蒂斯对现代派艺术的贡献。 Example sentencesExamples She visited the exhibition daily, and it was there that she gained her first broad introduction to modern art. Many churches built today combine traditional and modern architectural styles. The modernist belief that modern art should repudiate the past has been jettisoned. He called on architects to combine traditional Chinese styles with modern trends. But none of them as a centre for Indian contemporary art or modern architecture. It works well with black-and-white photography and abstract and modern art. Traditional and modern art performances are put on during holidays and the Muslim post-fasting festivities. It was a marriage of innovation and imagination that brought to life a blend of traditional and modern art. He also has some pen drawings displayed, which are a mix of traditional and modern styles. Hardly anything in modern art is more familiar than a Modigliani painting. He was respected as one of the first art historians to apply the apparatus of traditional scholarship to modern art. The fusion of old-fashioned values and modern architecture? Degas was an artist torn between traditional art and the modern impressionist movement. Innovation in art is not a new phenomenon - we have seen paintings evolve through the ages from traditional to modern art. But its range is far wider, and it includes a very significant section devoted to modern and contemporary art. He worked in a variety of styles, often parodying modes of both traditional and modern painting. The exhibition of the year brings together major masterpieces by the two giants of modern art, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Contemporary sculptors often blend traditional styles with more modern ones. Manchester is a hotbed of modern architecture and art. Before the modern period, the art of the grotesque was often placed in a religious context. noun ˈmɒd(ə)nˈmɑdərn usually moderns A person who advocates or practises a departure from traditional styles or values. 主张现代风格的人；宣扬现代价值观的人 they were moderns, they must not look back towards the old generation Example sentencesExamples I'm not one of those paranoid moderns who thinks the world is covered in an invisible miasma of writhing disease; I know it is. Like most moderns, I have become largely indifferent to filmic violence. It's precisely because the attitudes toward king and empire feel right for 1805 that we feel transported to another reality, admitted to a drama that plays out as if we moderns weren't there. Do we exist to be a church for moderns or postmoderns or are we willing to accept the compromises that will allow us to be a diverse community of both. We moderns tend to unthinkingly equate the quest for verisimilitude with the quest for historical accuracy, yet here it clearly is intended to serve the heart, and not the head. That contrast, at least, is not a fault, but an achievement, as profound as any to be heard in later moderns and modernists. Not surprisingly, many moderns are turned off by this. In literature, on the other hand, we do read the ancients as well as the moderns, because old works of literature don't become obsolete when new ones are published. While we moderns have lost the distinction between the pleasures and the gratifications, the ancient Greeks and the Romans of Hellenistic bent were keen on it. The common bond is in the fact that ancients and moderns have both been miserable about existence, about everything, while mediaevals were happy about that at least. However, the theory that went with it was rather alien to moderns. In contrast to the ancients, the moderns were the foolish lovers of truth and liberty; they believed in the natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And while the church has made only the barest concessions to modernity, the moderns love the church - at least to gawk at. For, as I say, we moderns believe in nothing: the nothingness of the will miraculously giving itself form by mastering the nothingness of the world. Not so with those moderns whose primary scientific values are oriented to the predictable future, and who often relegate the past to, well, simply history. The romantics place former greats at the top, while those with little feel for history or tradition opt for the moderns. Are we moderns so different in this respect from traditional peoples? Now we moderns can have the meaning and miss the experience. And of course what we have as historian is all this hagiographical stuff that's hard for us as moderns to believe, but something went on. The fundamental distinction that pervades and informs all of his work is that between the ancients and the moderns. Derivatives modernly adverb As in every modernly held view, there are significant historical antecedents. Example sentencesExamples You can spend one or two days here living in the villas on the mountains, which, unfortunately, are modernly designed. I simply want to know how you feel about them modernly. The only differences were that the people were dressed much more modernly and the entire town was crammed together so there was absolutely no space between buildings. I do not want to criticize the government for inviting foreign designers to plan these suburban projects, which will benefit the farming population by providing them with clean and modernly equipped apartments. My hair color also clashed with my skin color, since after all, my hair was black and cut modernly short. modernness noun ˈmɒd(ə)nnəsˈmɑdərnˌnəs The unorthodox phrasing abstracts the original material and gives the composition an edgy modernness. Example sentencesExamples It gave the coupe a feeling of elegance and modernness. The whole collection was about the moderness of New York City, and the modernness of the buildings. The real origin of all these flags is severely obfuscated by myth and legend, in spite of its relative modernness and high popularity. As noted above, creationists do not have a really satisfactory explanation for the increasing modernness of fossils. Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin modernus, from Latin modo 'just now'. Modern is from late Latin modernus, from Latin modo ‘just now’. Rhymes Culloden, hodden, sodden, trodden Definition of modern in US English: modern adjectiveˈmädərnˈmɑdərn 1Relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past. 现代的，近代的 the pace of modern life 现代生活的步伐。 modern U.S. history 中国近代史。 Example sentencesExamples Suddenly you are aware of all the terrible dangers this modern world presents to the barely-walking. Before then, I though that our modern society had moved past such things but, sadly, it has not. The comment remains true of periods of the much more recent past, including Australian social history of the modern period. He draws attention to survivals of shamanistic cults from early modern times to the present. Some are remote from modern civilisation, others survive cheek by jowl with spreading towns and motorways. The grey bridges stood silently above the rivers, with the rubbish of modern life floating past occasionally. The play takes the audience through a remarkable journey from past to modern South Africa by means of dance and song. He didn't know why, but it seemed like trust was becoming a thing of the past in the modern world of people today. A book that's not bad in context that would fall flat presented in modern terms. Over the past decades, modern encroachments and thoughtless building have marred the historic fabric of the city. All the groupings and distinctions of modern feminism were present then. In this way, she presents a refreshing alternative to official and political histories of modern India. Let us turn to the experience of rear services support in military events that took place both in the past and in modern Russia. Two modern women present a spirited interpretation of a Chinese folk tale It would be unusual for a modern historian simply to present a vignette such as the one above, and to say nothing more. Far from exclusively singling out the Nazi regime, the modern age is presented as singularly tyrannical and repressive. A walk down Tokyo's main thoroughfares presents the modern observer with conflicting pictures. He has chosen nine areas of research to present his analysis of modern Japan. Interestingly the exhibitions link past and present with some modern artefacts and photos on display. This lost generation is perhaps the most unempowered generation in modern Bahamian history. Synonyms present-day, contemporary, present-time, present, current, twenty-first-century, latter-day, recent, latest 1.1 Characterized by or using the most up-to-date techniques, ideas, or equipment. 现代化的；新潮的；新式的 they do not have modern weapons 他们没有新式武器。 Example sentencesExamples One is that while modern ideas and technology have helped get us into this mess, we will still need them to get us out. Even with modern technology and equipment, the threat of death is very real. It will include a library and staff room and have modern information technology equipment, as well as provision for a wildlife area. Without modern technology and test equipment, they came pretty close to the answers that pilots ask every day. Be happy to move with the times - be more modern and embrace more modern equipment and technology. It is humbling to remember that the two lives saved that day weren't due to fancy new techniques or expensive modern technology. The small fields we see around us, which tourists come to look at, are not helpful when it comes to modern equipment and cultivation techniques. Any form of electoral fraud is a criminal offence so safeguards are needed, and as modern technology progresses, it's now a barcode. Rapid advances in modern technology are bringing the physical merger of man and machine closer to reality. The modern equipment makes it possible to find out the frequency of a word in a database of any large number, say 10 million words. I can't imagine for a moment that these sports schools would possess modern technical equipment. While both guns celebrate the past, each one brings modern techniques and ideas into play. With modern technology and equipment, it is hoped that Chinese scientists develop new drugs with patents. One is the setting up of a nationalised digital library with modern equipment, which could be accessed by people from all walks of life. It was an interesting display of modern equipment and technology. The dizzying advances of modern technology have destroyed these assumptions. This legislation takes account of modern techniques and advances in technology over the last few years. They need a break, which modern technology and management techniques can bring about. Give troops the very best training and most modern weapons and equipment. The roof has been repaired and modern kitchen equipment installed. Synonyms fashionable, in fashion, in, in style, in vogue, up to date, up to the minute, all the rage, trendsetting, stylish, voguish, modish, chic, smart, the latest, new, newest, newfangled, new-fashioned, fresh, modernistic, advanced, progressive, forward-looking 1.2attributive Denoting the form of a language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form. （语言）近代的，现代的 modern German 近代德语。 Example sentencesExamples All of the modern vernaculars spoken in Northern India today are direct descendants of Sanskrit and Prakrit. Genuinely upset by the waiter's ignorance of dead languages my teacher grudgingly had to settle for ordering in the modern vernacular. In modern French, the term has come to be used for portable barbed wire entanglements. I find that surprising, because there was an opportunity to completely redraft that part into modern language. Stressing that Samskrit is indeed a modern language, she says the aim of the Samskrita Bharati is to popularise the language. It was Sir Thomas More who thrust the words Utopia and Utopian into the canon of modern language. The winning language was the langue d' oil spoken by the Francs, which evolved into modern French. Most writers regretted the decline of modern language. It appeared to share some similarities to the modern Tibetan language, but far more complex. He was particularly committed to the revitalization of Hebrew as a modern, spoken language. The event also saw the launch of a new Book of Common Prayer, containing services in traditional and modern language. Her eyes fell on a passage in standard modern French, in a messy hand, as though it had been written in haste. Some examples of words which never made it into the modern language. By merely dubbing it as elitist or foreign we cannot wish away the fact that it is as much a part of our heritage as any other modern Indian language. Although much of our modern language comes from the language of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, very few Christian names do. The Italian was the only modern language which possessed anything that could be called a literature. In his translations O'Riordain generally avoids words that have passed out of use in the modern language. If that's true, the evolution of recursion may have brought modern language into existence. 1.3attributive Denoting a current or recent style or trend in art, architecture, or other cultural activity marked by a significant departure from traditional styles and values. （艺术、建筑等）现代派的 Matisse's contribution to modern art 马蒂斯对现代派艺术的贡献。 Example sentencesExamples Many churches built today combine traditional and modern architectural styles. He also has some pen drawings displayed, which are a mix of traditional and modern styles. Contemporary sculptors often blend traditional styles with more modern ones. Degas was an artist torn between traditional art and the modern impressionist movement. Innovation in art is not a new phenomenon - we have seen paintings evolve through the ages from traditional to modern art. He called on architects to combine traditional Chinese styles with modern trends. Traditional and modern art performances are put on during holidays and the Muslim post-fasting festivities. Hardly anything in modern art is more familiar than a Modigliani painting. She visited the exhibition daily, and it was there that she gained her first broad introduction to modern art. He was respected as one of the first art historians to apply the apparatus of traditional scholarship to modern art. He worked in a variety of styles, often parodying modes of both traditional and modern painting. It was a marriage of innovation and imagination that brought to life a blend of traditional and modern art. The fusion of old-fashioned values and modern architecture? It works well with black-and-white photography and abstract and modern art. But its range is far wider, and it includes a very significant section devoted to modern and contemporary art. The exhibition of the year brings together major masterpieces by the two giants of modern art, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Manchester is a hotbed of modern architecture and art. But none of them as a centre for Indian contemporary art or modern architecture. Before the modern period, the art of the grotesque was often placed in a religious context. The modernist belief that modern art should repudiate the past has been jettisoned. nounˈmädərnˈmɑdərn usually moderns A person who advocates or practices a departure from traditional styles or values. 主张现代风格的人；宣扬现代价值观的人 Example sentencesExamples Do we exist to be a church for moderns or postmoderns or are we willing to accept the compromises that will allow us to be a diverse community of both. In literature, on the other hand, we do read the ancients as well as the moderns, because old works of literature don't become obsolete when new ones are published. For, as I say, we moderns believe in nothing: the nothingness of the will miraculously giving itself form by mastering the nothingness of the world. And while the church has made only the barest concessions to modernity, the moderns love the church - at least to gawk at. It's precisely because the attitudes toward king and empire feel right for 1805 that we feel transported to another reality, admitted to a drama that plays out as if we moderns weren't there. I'm not one of those paranoid moderns who thinks the world is covered in an invisible miasma of writhing disease; I know it is. And of course what we have as historian is all this hagiographical stuff that's hard for us as moderns to believe, but something went on. While we moderns have lost the distinction between the pleasures and the gratifications, the ancient Greeks and the Romans of Hellenistic bent were keen on it. Not surprisingly, many moderns are turned off by this. The common bond is in the fact that ancients and moderns have both been miserable about existence, about everything, while mediaevals were happy about that at least. The romantics place former greats at the top, while those with little feel for history or tradition opt for the moderns. Now we moderns can have the meaning and miss the experience. The fundamental distinction that pervades and informs all of his work is that between the ancients and the moderns. In contrast to the ancients, the moderns were the foolish lovers of truth and liberty; they believed in the natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Like most moderns, I have become largely indifferent to filmic violence. That contrast, at least, is not a fault, but an achievement, as profound as any to be heard in later moderns and modernists. However, the theory that went with it was rather alien to moderns. Not so with those moderns whose primary scientific values are oriented to the predictable future, and who often relegate the past to, well, simply history. We moderns tend to unthinkingly equate the quest for verisimilitude with the quest for historical accuracy, yet here it clearly is intended to serve the heart, and not the head. Are we moderns so different in this respect from traditional peoples? Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin modernus, from Latin modo ‘just now’.
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