contemporaries

英 [kənˈtɛmpərəriz]

美 [kənˈtɛmpəˌrɛriz]

n.  同代人; 同辈人; 同龄人
contemporary的复数

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 当代的;现代的
  Contemporarythings are modern and relate to the present time.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。
• ADJ 同时发生的;同时期的;同时代的
  Contemporarypeople or things were alive or happened at the same time as something else you are talking about.
  1. ...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
• N-COUNT 同时期的人;同时代的人
  Someone'scontemporaryis a person who is or was alive at the same time as them.
  1. 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。
  2. ...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

英英释义

noun

• all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
  Synonym:coevalsgeneration

双语例句

• Politicians always believe that history will think better of them than their contemporaries.
  政客们总是相信，历史对他们的评价会好于同时代人的评价。
• Unlike most of his contemporaries in hollywood, Hart actually knew something of the old west.
  哈特与好莱坞大多数和他同时代的人不同，他确实知道一些昔日西部的情况。
• Future economic historians will probably regard Wim Duisenberg, his predecessor, more kindly than his contemporaries have done.
  与同时代人相比，将来的经济史学家很可能对特里谢的前任德伊森贝赫（WimDuisenberg）评价更友善。
• His statement was true, if foolish, and my contemporaries and I benefited.
  他的这番话尽管可能有些愚蠢，却也说的是实情，我及我的同代人都是受益者。
• He wrote pungently about his contemporaries.
  他写文章尖锐地批判了他同时代的人。
• Most of his contemporaries regarded him as a mere eccentric.
  他那个时代大多数的人都只把他当成怪人。
• My contemporaries don't even know the meaning of the word patriotism, he said.
  我的同代人根本不知道爱国主义这个词的意思，他说。
• We all tend to seek the society of our contemporaries.
  我们都倾向于寻找社会上同期的人。
• Environmentalists have traditionally relied upon the power of their prose to transform the thoughts and behavior of their contemporaries.
  环境保护论者通常是依靠他们散文的力量来改变同时代人的思想和行为。
• It is true that among her contemporaries she passed for a young woman of profundity.
  确实，在她的同时代人中，她被公认是一个深奥莫测的少女。