[kən'tempərəri]
contemporary
n. 同时代的人
a. 同时代的,同时,属于同一时期的

词形变化:

副词:contemporarily 名词复数:contemporaries

例句与用法:

  1. My parents think that the contemporary young people have no respect for authority.
    我父母认为现在的年轻人不尊重权威。
  2. He had devoted his whole life to the study of contemporary art.
    他把他的一生都献给了当代艺术研究。
  3. She and I were contemporaries at college.
    她和我在学院里是同学。
  4. Contemporary reports of the past events are often more interesting than modern historians' view of them.
    对于历史上的事件,当时的报道往往比现代历史学家的评述更为有趣。
  5. He is a contemporary of mine, but our experiences are completely different.
    他和我是同龄人,但我们的经历截然不同。

英英解释:

名词 contemporary:

  1. a person of nearly the same age as another
  2. 同义词:coeval

形容词 contemporary:

  1. characteristic of the present
  2. 同义词:modern-day
  3. belonging to the present time
  4. 同义词:present-day
  5. occurring in the same period of time
  6. 同义词:contemporaneous