Modern

(noun.) a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes.

(noun.) a contemporary person.

(adj.) characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture .

(adj.) used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; 'Modern English'; 'New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew' .

(adj.) belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages; 'modern art'; 'modern furniture'; 'modern history'; 'totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric' .

整理:希欧多尔

• It was the first, or among the first of locks which troubled modern burglars' picks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Together they set about designing the machine to make it as nearly perfect as possible in adaptation to the needs of modern business. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In translating him into the language of modern thought, we might insensibly lose the spirit of ancient philosophy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Much of their theory must seem to the modern mind merely fanciful and unsupported speculation. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Don't tell me, Mrs. Archer would say to her children, all this modern newspaper rubbish about a New York aristocracy. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The Neolithic men of Europe were white men ancestral to the modern Europeans. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• All these features are now given to the shingle by modern machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The most important of all modern improvements on the bicycle was perhaps the pneumatic tire. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The camera obscura consisted of a box with a lens at one end and a ground glass at the other, just like a modern camera. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The modern boss, on the other hand, shelters behind legal forms which he has got hold of and uses for his own ends. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Nations with a glorious past as to bravery but with a poor armament have gone down suddenly before smaller forces armed with modern ordnance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• These wells are now made with larger diameters than formerly, and altogether their construction has been rendered much more easy in modern times. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• As a great modern philosopher has said, Aristotle press ed his way through the mass of things knowable, and subjected its diversity to the power of his thought. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Modern science uses the force of such exploding gases for the accomplishment of work, such as running of automobiles and launches. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Ah, but in doing it--in doing it you were the unconscious instrument of--of--what word have we moderns for Providence, Mr. Archer? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Plays and novels have indeed an overwhelming political importance, as the moderns have maintained. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He has been called by an able writer, the first of the moderns, and the phrase expresses aptly the unprejudiced detachment of his intellectual side. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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