| 单词 | contemporary |
| 释义 | contemporary (once / 244 pages) adjn Things that are contemporary are either happening at the same time or happening now. Contemporary art is recent art. In history class, if you hear that one famous person was a contemporary of another, that means they lived at the same time. Contemporaries are people and things from the same time period. Contemporary can also describe things happening now or recently. It's common to speak of contemporary music or contemporary furniture, for example. Those things are new, not old. Anything characteristic of the present day can be called contemporary. WORD FAMILYcontemporary: contemporaries, contemporarily, contemporise, contemporize+/contemporise: contemporised, contemporising/contemporize: contemporized USAGE EXAMPLESSusan Sontag once wrote that “in contemporary English letters he seems to me peerless.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Mr. Cohen is well aware of the contemporary arguments arrayed against America’s interest, or competence, in waging war, which he addresses in Chapter 1. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Stefan Kalmár is a veteran art industry and gallery insider and the new director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj occurring in the same period of time the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart Syn contemporaneous synchronal, synchronic, synchronous occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase 2adj belonging to the present time contemporary leaders Syn present-day current occurring in or belonging to the present time 3adj characteristic of the present contemporary trends in design Syn modern-day modern belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages 4n a person of nearly the same age as another Syn|Hyper coeval compeer, equal, match, peer a person who is of equal standing with another in a group |
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