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单词 contemporary
释义
contemporary1 adjectivecontemporary2 noun
contemporarycon‧tem‧po‧ra‧ry1 /kənˈtempərəri, -pəri $ -pəreri/ ●●○ AWL adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINcontemporary1
Origin:
1600-1700 Medieval Latin contemporarius, from Latin com- ( ➔ COM-) + tempus ‘time’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Contemporary Indian cinema has its roots in folk culture.
  • Composers like Philip Glass have made contemporary music more popular.
  • I'm not very impressed by the works of many contemporary artists.
  • The cafe's decor is clean and contemporary.
  • the declining importance of religion in contemporary societies
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • It is arguably the greatest source of violence and death in the contemporary political world.
  • It was strongly influenced by the contemporary art movement known as Constructivism, which was being energetically pursued.
  • Since its opening in 1978 the gallery has been seen as the main centre for contemporary art in the city.
  • The methods available are constantly increasing in number and their utility is greater as the complexity of contemporary processes is revealed.
  • This latter was especially troublesome because the contemporary theory dismissed it as self-correcting.
  • Thus, contemporary ontological debates relating to the photograph are divergent.
  • To put the same observation in more contemporary terms, families learn about what marriage means from their experience of marriage.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
[only before noun] happening or existing now: · The present situation could get much worse.· the present century· There are no plans to build more houses here at the present time.
[only before noun] present – used especially about something that is not expected to stay the same for long: · current trends in fashion· the current state of the UK economy
[only before noun] formal existing or being used now – used about things or situations that you think may be changed in the future: · The existing offices are too small.· The proposal will strengthen existing immigration laws.
[only before noun] used about the art, writing, ideas, society etc that belong to the present time: · the impact of computer-generated imagery on contemporary art and design· contemporary music in Russia
used about conditions and attitudes that exist now, when you are comparing them with those that existed in the past: · People struggle to keep up with the pace of life in today’s world of instant communications.· the liberal ideology of today
Longman Language Activatormodern art/literature/music/fashion
modern art, literature, music etc uses styles that have been developed very recently and are deliberately different from traditional ones: · I like both modern dance and classical ballet.· Your work was my first route into an understanding of modern art.
contemporary art, music, literature etc was produced or written recently: · Composers like Philip Glass have made contemporary music more popular.· I'm not very impressed by the works of many contemporary artists.
the latest fashion, style, design etc is the one that is the most modern and the most fashionable: the latest fashion: · She assured me that big sweaters were the latest fashion.the latest in something (=the most fashionable type of something): · They stock the latest in designer footwear.
avant-garde art, music, literature etc is extremely modern and often strange or hard to understand because it is very different from previous styles: · Although she likes avant-garde music, Lydia also plays classical guitar and piano.· His paintings are rather too avant-garde for my tastes.· an exhibition of work by avant-garde artists and sculptors
existing, happening, or relating to now
the present situation is the one that exists now; your present job, address etc is the one that you have now: · Arnaud lived in Los Angeles before moving to his present home in New York.· He warned that the present situation could get much worse.
use this about things or situations that exist now, when you think they may be changed in the future: · The existing building is too small, and there are plans to replace it within the next five years.· Many people feel that the existing law discriminates against women.
use this about a situation or activity which is happening now, but which is not expected to continue for a long time: · In the current economic situation, switching careers may not be such a good idea.· Coca-Cola's current advertising campaigncurrent level/rate/price: · The aim is to reduce current pollution levels in the Black Sea.· According to one economist, at the current growth rate, China will have the largest economy in the world by 2030.
use this about social, economic, or political conditions and attitudes that exist now, when you are comparing them with those that existed in the past: · The first computers were extremely slow by today's standards.· The teenagers of today have a different attitude to sex.
a present-day situation, fact, idea etc is one that exists now rather than in the past: · Modern-day equipment has made mining much safer than it was.· There is no modern-day racing driver who could be compared with Fangio.· Prussia reached its zenith in 1795, encompassing most of northern Germany and present-day Poland.
belonging to the present time or most recent time and not to the past: · I don't like modern architecture at all.· The pyramids are a remarkable piece of engineering, even judged by modern standards.· The most compelling work in the modern British theater is being created in the smaller and non-profit theaters.
contemporary art, writing, thought, society etc is the type that exists, is accepted, or belongs to, the present time: · Contemporary Indian cinema has its roots in folk culture.· the declining importance of religion in contemporary societies
a story, subject, problem etc that is topical is interesting because it deals with something that is important at the moment: · It's an old story but it has a topical message.· In the 1970s, he recorded topical songs about Watergate and the Vietnam War.· The editor thinks that if an article isn't topical it isn't worth publishing.
someone who exists now and is a very similar type of person as someone who existed in the past: · Romer portrayed himself as a latter-day Robin Hood who took money and gave it to the underprivileged.
WORD SETS
aesthete, nounagitprop, nounart gallery, nounartist, nounartwork, nounavant-garde, adjectivebaroque, adjectivecapture, verbceramics, nouncharacter, nounclassical, adjectiveclassicism, nouncompere, nouncontemporary, adjectiveconvention, nouncreative, adjectivecritical, adjectivecrossover, nouncubism, nouncultural, adjectiveculturally, adverbculture, nouncurator, nouncycle, noundrama, nouneisteddfod, nounepic, nouneponymous, adjectiveerotic, adjectiveerotica, nouneroticism, nounexhibit, verbexhibit, nounexhibition, nounexpress, verbexpression, nounexpressionism, nounextract, nounfictionalize, verbfigurine, nounfin de siècle, adjectiveflashback, nounformalism, nounfuturism, nounglaze, verbglaze, nounGothic, adjectivehandcrafted, adjectivehandicraft, nounhandmade, adjectivehigh priest, nounhistorical, adjectiveinterpretation, nounItalianate, adjectivelowbrow, adjectivemagnum opus, nounmarquetry, nounmasterpiece, nounmasterwork, nounmature, adjectivemedium, nounMFA, nounmiddlebrow, adjectiveminimalism, nounmotif, nounmuse, nounnarrator, nounnaturalism, nounneoclassical, adjectivenotice, nounoeuvre, nounoffering, nounopening, adjectiveopus, nounpan, verbparody, nounpastiche, nounpattern, nounpiece, nounpop art, nounportfolio, nounpostmodernism, nounprequel, nounpreview, nounproduce, verbproduction, nounrealism, nounrealistic, adjectiverehash, verbreview, nounreview, verbromantic, nounromanticism, nounroyalty, nounrubbish, nounsalon, nounscenario, nounscene, nounsensuous, adjectivesentimental, adjectivesequel, nounsequence, nounset piece, nounsetting, nounShakespearean, adjectiveshowing, nounskit, nounstory, nounstudio, nounstylistic, adjectivesurrealism, nounswansong, nounsynopsis, nountitle, nountrilogy, nountwo-dimensional, adjectiveuncut, adjectiveunexpurgated, adjectivevillain, nounwork, nounwork of art, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYcontemporary + NOUN
· Each year there is a contemporary music festival in November.
· Paintings by contemporary artists covered the walls.
· What is the role of television in contemporary society?
· The environment is a major issue in the contemporary world.
· the complexity of contemporary life
· The book moves from the late 19th century to contemporary America.
· Science is an important part of contemporary culture.
(=subjects or problems that a lot of people are talking about)· contemporary issues such as transport and pollution
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· The country’s recent history is powerfully told in this film.
· She finds modern poetry difficult.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Extant examples of maps date from 1602 and there are contemporary accounts of mapping and the use of maps from considerably earlier.· According to a contemporary account, the attendance figure was about 20, 000.· Unfortunately, there is no contemporary account of the setting up of the archdiocese of Lichfield.
· With contemporary art, there is not always a right or wrong answer.· Since its opening in 1978 the gallery has been seen as the main centre for contemporary art in the city.· It features a collection of contemporary art that, for the most part, is bad.· The emphasis of Rizzoli's spring list is definitely on contemporary art.· As it turns. out, I know a deal about contemporary art.· In June 1991, the Jeu de Paume reopened its doors, this time as an exhibition centre devoted to contemporary art.
· Through photographic images we see a few of the attempts by contemporary artists to find the real face.· You name your favorite contemporary artist and odds are they are involved.· The Eighties were an important decade for sculpture when many contemporary artists turned to three-dimensional work.· Nevertheless, many contemporary artists were having their drawings and paintings photographed rather than engraved and sold in different formats.· She saw feet sinking into the thick pile of the new rugs whose abstract patterns evoked the work of contemporary artists.· March 2-April 1: Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artists, a group exhibit featuring seven major contemporary artists.· The gallery is based in Trinity College and shows work by contemporary artists from both Ireland and abroad.· He had a particular interest in works by contemporary artists and was a pioneer in the development of artist-in-residence programs.
· What is evident is that the age of electronic records opens numerous possibilities that will enrich the understanding of contemporary culture.· We considered media education largely as part of the exploration of contemporary culture, alongside more traditional literary texts.· Pupils should have the opportunity to apply their critical faculties to these major parts of contemporary culture.· The exhibition became a milestone in feminist analysis of contemporary culture.· Some instinctive appreciation of this fact may have given rise to the mystique which surrounded £40 a year in contemporary culture.
· Over a three-month period, opera attracted 1 percent of the population but ballet and contemporary dance fewer than 1 percent.
· Unfortunately, never in contemporary history have economic sanctions felled a regime, no matter how weak.· I do not need to detain the House with a contemporary history of that sad state.· Tuggener charted a contemporary history that was on the move.· Between the years 1988 and 1991 I was engaged in researching a contemporary history of Venice.· There is a particular problem with contemporary history.· The emphasis is on modern and contemporary history.
· At Level Two students will plan and undertake an investigation into a contemporary issue of their choice.· What are the implications for the state of such contemporary issues as security, regionalism and the international character of the economy?· Some films show their makers grappling with contemporary issues, without always the level of visual inventiveness applied elsewhere.· Some alluded to specifically contemporary issues.
· Delacroix's journal is articulate, concerned with other arts as well as painting, besides containing much comment on contemporary life.· Printed in the shrill neons of commercial art, these leering posters document the slick, creeping hucksterism of contemporary life.· You can also overcome one of the worst problems in contemporary life, that of cold coffee.· He introduced characters and problems from contemporary life such as arranging suitable marriages.· While there were fewer portrayals of contemporary life than in Soviet art, not all western artists looked inwards.· They were also too crude to cope with the complexity of contemporary life in Britain.
· One of the most disliked is contemporary music.· Particularly if it means introducing contemporary music to Angelenos.· He has a keen interest in contemporary music and is a founder member of the ensemble Capricorn.· What the future entails is some very contemporary music slipped into concerts featuring lovable old favorites.· I think we've got aesthetics to offer that aren't around in contemporary music.· Mass Media: As of yet, there is no national contemporary music paper in the Soviet Union.· It is also useful for some contemporary music where a light, jazz-style accompaniment is required.
· It is this which he takes as the key to an understanding of contemporary society, and of culture itself.· Although the Stuart-Meredith growth charts have survived for 30 years, their usefulness in contemporary society is limited.· But the health and wealth of contemporary society blinds us to the decadence and moral sickness under our noses.· The new religious revival is fueled by a revulsion with the corruptions of contemporary society.· This is not to deny, of course, that crime and violence in contemporary society is an important social reality.· Much of contemporary society seems disadvantaged by a management view that extends not much beyond immediate profit preoccupations.· Undoubtedly teachers fulfil an important function in contemporary society.· Religion is not compartmentalized, but a living part of contemporary society, reflecting where it is and what its potentials are.
· It is the biggest visual production ever printed on the work of contemporary women artists in this country.· Lest we begin feeling too sorry for these fellows, consider the plight of the contemporary woman.· Fantasy has continued to interest several other contemporary women writers, such as Emma Tennant and Angela Carter, in this way.· Prescriptives is for the contemporary woman who demands the same high standards from her beauty products as she expects from her wardrobe.
· It is good for children to respond to good contemporary works, written both for children and for adults.· In 1856 the Bissons were reproducing and exhibiting photographs of contemporary works of art.· Yet these are undeniably contemporary works.· Western interest has increased since glasnost, but has concentrated on the more contemporary works of the 1970s and 1980s.· The Skopos Challenge exhibits 150 contemporary works selected by leading quilters, showing bed and cot quilts and wall hangings.· Indeed, the Rue-des-Bois landscapes already have much in common with Braque's contemporary works.
· In the 1990s it's a symbol of the contemporary world.· The contemporary world is not entirely eschewed; the baby still wears his romper suit.· To what extent is it possible to align states and nations in the contemporary world?· Record retention will lead to a skewed vision of the contemporary world.· The problems of ethno-nationalism and of multiple nations within a single state are endemic in the contemporary world.· The essential effect of such knowledge was to alienate Chesterton and Williamson from the contemporary world.· Comparative political systems in the contemporary world.
· These, however, are indicated in scores and livrets and noted by contemporary writers on opera performance.· Such consolidation was indeed commended by contemporary writers on agriculture.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnouncontemporaryadjectivecontemporaryadverbcontemporarily
1belonging to the present time SYN  moderncontemporary music/art/dance etc an exhibition of contemporary Japanese prints life in contemporary Britain2happening or done in the same period of timecontemporary with The wall hangings are thought to be roughly contemporary with the tiled floors.COLLOCATIONScontemporary + NOUNcontemporary art/music/dance· Each year there is a contemporary music festival in November.contemporary artists/writers· Paintings by contemporary artists covered the walls.contemporary society· What is the role of television in contemporary society?the contemporary world· The environment is a major issue in the contemporary world.contemporary life· the complexity of contemporary lifecontemporary Britain/America etc· The book moves from the late 19th century to contemporary America.contemporary culture/science etc· Science is an important part of contemporary culture.contemporary issues (=subjects or problems that a lot of people are talking about)· contemporary issues such as transport and pollution
contemporary1 adjectivecontemporary2 noun
contemporarycontemporary2 ●●○ AWL noun (plural contemporaries) [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Atkins is still working, long after many of his contemporaries have retired.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But this was not clear to contemporaries.
  • More than almost any of her predecessors or contemporaries, Pires underlines this generic relationship.
  • The following portrait sketches by contemporaries are, there-fore, of special interest.
  • The music, by Brecht's contemporaries Weill and Eisler, adds atmosphere and reinforces the strong protest against tyranny and persecution.
  • The problem was considered particularly vexing because, as the research of contemporaries showed, it affected middle class women most.
  • This, they suggest, can be seen in the Tagar culture, a contemporary of the Pazyryk tombs.
  • To most of his contemporaries Blake was a nutter or simply inept.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· The country’s recent history is powerfully told in this film.
· She finds modern poetry difficult.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Other parts of my argument derive from Malinowski, Mauss and Levi-Strauss, as well as from various of my younger contemporaries.· But because it was idealistic it was the more persuasive when he preached it to his young contemporaries.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnouncontemporaryadjectivecontemporaryadverbcontemporarily
 someone who lived or was in a particular place at the same time as someone elsesomebody’s contemporaries Oswald was much admired by his contemporaries at the Academy.
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