| 释义 |
latter-day  adjective [attributive]Modern or contemporary, especially when mirroring some person or thing of the past: the book is built round the story of the Flood and a latter-day Noah...- Yet, strangely, we know we aren't in the presence of a latter-day Puritan.
- It is the latter-day ghost of America's racist past that won't go away.
- One would seek to undercut or outmaneuver countervailing coalitions, a latter-day British grand strategy, so to speak.
Synonyms modern, present-day, present-time, current, contemporary; French de nos jours |