剑桥高阶英汉双解词典 - contemporary collapse

contemporary
[UK]/kən'tem.pər.ər.i/ [US]/-pə.rer-/
adjective
EXISTING NOW 存在于现在的
I
* existing or happening now
当代的；现代的

1. contemporary music/literature/art/fashion
当代音乐／文学／艺术／时尚

2. Although it was written hundreds of years ago, it still has a contemporary (= modern) feel to it.
尽管它写于几百年前，但读来仍具现代感。

[UK]/kən'tem.pər.ər.i/ [US]/-pə.rer-/
adjective
OF SAME PERIOD 同时期的
* belonging to the same or a stated period in the past
同时期的，同时代的

1. Almost all of the contemporary accounts of the event have been lost.
几乎所有关于这一事件的同时期的记载都遗失了。

2. Most of the writers he was contemporary with were interested in the same subjects.
和他同时代的大多数作家都对同样的题材感兴趣。

[UK]/kən'tem.pər.ər.i/ [US]/-pə.rer-/
noun [C]
* someone living during the same period as someone else
同时代的人

1. Was he a contemporary of Shakespeare's?
他和莎士比亚是同时代的人吗？

* a person who is of the same age as you
同龄人，同辈

1. She didn't mix with her contemporaries, preferring the company of older people.
她不和同龄人混在一起，而是喜欢和年长的人相处。

柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典 - contemporary collapse

contemporary ★★★☆☆
1.ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词当代的;现代的 Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time.

【搭配模式】：usu ADJ n

  • 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。

  • 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。

  • 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。

2.ADJ 形容词同时发生的;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.

【搭配模式】：usu ADJ n

  • ...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

3.N-COUNT 可数名词同时期的人;同时代的人 Someone's contemporary is a person who is or was alive at the same time as them.

【搭配模式】：usu pl

  • 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。

  • ...a glossary of musical terms found in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

    莎士比亚及其同时代人音乐术语汇编

牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - contemporary collapse

☞ contemporary
con·tem·por·ary / kEn5temprEri; NAmE -pEreri / adjective1. ~ (with sb / sth) belonging to the same time
   属同时期的；同一时代的:
   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。
2. belonging to the present time
   SYN  modern
   当代的；现代的:
   life in contemporary Britain
   当代英国的生活
    contemporary fiction / music / dance
   当代小说/音乐/舞蹈 noun (pl. -ies)
   a person who lives or lived at the same time as sb else, especially sb who is about the same age
   同代人；同辈人；同龄人:
   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。

牛津搭配语词典 第2版 - contemporary collapse

contemporary adj.

1. belonging to the same time as sb/sth else

• VERBS be

• ADVERB exactly | nearly | broadly (BrE), roughly a period broadly ~ with the Shang dynasty

• PREPOSITION with a composer ~ with Beethoven

2. modern

• VERBS be

• ADVERB decidedly, thoroughly, very His work is very ~.

Contemporary is used with these nouns: ballet, architect, architecture, art, artist, capitalism, classic, composer, context, criticism, culture, dance, debate, doctrine, drama, economics, economist, equivalent, example, fashion, feminism, fiction, furniture, historian, history, linguistics, literature, manifestation, music, musician, novel, novelist, painter, painting, phenomenon, philosopher, philosophy, photography, poet, poetry, politics, practice, relevance, religion, repertoire, scene, scholar, sculptor, setting, society, spin, style, taste, theatre, theme, thinker, thinking, understanding, usage, viewer, world, writer, writing

牛津英语同义词学习词典 - contemporary collapse

contemporary adj.
⇨ recent

新牛津英语同义词词典 - contemporary collapse

contemporary

adjective
1 contemporary writing says that the city's walls were formidable
CONTEMPORANEOUS , concurrent, coeval, synchronous, synchronic, of the time, of the day, simultaneous; coexisting, coexistent; rare coetaneous.

2 crime and violence in contemporary society
MODERN , present-day, present, current, present-time, immediate, extant; up to date, up to the minute, fashionable, latest, recent, ultra-modern, newfangled, modish, voguish, in vogue; French à la mode; informal bang up to date, with it.
-opposite(s): OLD-FASHIONED, OUT OF DATE.

noun
the contemporaries of Chaucer
PEER , fellow; rare compeer, coeval.

词源记忆 - contemporary collapse

contemporary 同时代的
con-, 表强调；-temp, 时间，词源同temporary.