音标:['mɒdәn] ; 柯林斯词典等级:4 级; 牛津三千核心词汇;
n. 现代人, 有思想的人
a. 现代的, 时髦的
n. a contemporary person
n. a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
a. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
s. characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
词型变化:名词复数形式 : moderns
考试类型:[中考/高考/IELTS]
词性分布:
形容词99%
名词1%

modern的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. Modern agriculture is spoiling our beautiful countryside.现代农业正在破坏我们美丽的农村。
  2. He can't adjust himself to the whirl of modern life in this big city.他无法适应这个大都市的现代生活的忙碌。
  3. Her novel depicts life in modern London.她的小说描写的是伦敦现代的生活。
  4. She wears a modern dress.她穿着一件时髦的礼服。
  5. Girls often shop for modern clothes.女孩子们经常去商店买时髦衣服。
  6. This kind of furniture is modern in style.这种家具款式时髦。
用作名词(n.)
  1. Education is essential to modern men.教育对于现代人十分重要。
  2. Many people live long healthy lives in modern times.很多现代人都长寿。

常见句型

用作形容词(adj.)
用作定语~+ n.
  1. The modern children find it difficult to conceive of a time when there was no radio or TV.今天的儿童很难设想没有收音机和电视机的时代是什么样子。
  2. He was steeped in modern history.他埋头于现代史的研究。
  3. It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
  4. I think the plays on modern themes are preferable to the historical ones.我认为现代题材的戏剧比历史剧更可取。
  5. I'd rather stay in a modern hotel.我希望住在一家现代化的旅馆里。
  6. The modern office block sticks out like a sore thumb among the old buildings in the area.那座现代化的办公大楼直挺挺地矗立在那片旧建筑物群中十分显眼。
  7. Most manual labour in the past has been replaced by modern machines.昔日大部分手工劳动已由现代化的机器所代替。
  8. Modern cities have a fast rhythm.现代化城市都是快节奏的。
  9. This modern army is maritime.这支现代化的军队是在海上作战的。
  10. Television is a modern invention.电视为现代发明。
  11. He has modern ideas in spite of his great age.尽管他年事很高,但思想观念却很入时。
  12. In this part of the city, you can see ancient and modern buildings next to each other.在这座城市的这个部分,你可以看到鳞次栉比的古代的与现代的建筑物。
用作表语S+be+~
  1. The furniture he's just bought is very modern.他刚买的家具很入时。
  2. The cloth is the most modern.这件衣服是最时髦的。

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)
~+名词
  • modern army现代化军队
  • modern building现代化建筑
  • modern city现代化城市
  • modern English近代英语
  • modern history现代史
  • modern hotel现代化的旅馆
  • modern idea入时的观点
  • modern invention现代发明
  • modern machine现代化的机器
  • modern matter眼前的问题
  • modern times现代

经典引文

  • Ernest Bevin owed less to formal education than any Englishman to hold so high an office..in modern times.

    出自:A. Bullock
【近义词】
【反义词】

Modern Living The Seans' Caged House Sean (husband): When an architect designs a house for themselves and their family, they have to attempt to 1)accommodate those, needs of the family. That's that's

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2004年

Lesson 16 The modern city 现代城市 First listen and then answer the following question. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 What is the author's main argument about the modern city? In the organization of industrial life the influence of the f

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(450) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语第四册

EXPLORATIONS - In an Age of Modern Science and Medicine, Infectious Diseases Remain the World's Leading Killer By Jill Moss Broadcast: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidu

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(321) / 评论(0) 分类 Explorations

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen! My name is David. Im very glad to join you with the discussion of tradition in modern times and my topic is Why dont we make modern and tradition friends. I went to Britain on the school exchange program last sum

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(150) / 评论(0) 分类 高中英语必修1

Lesson19 Is it Good to Live in a Large Modern City? Text I Hate to Live in a Large Modern City

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(288) / 评论(0) 分类 高级口语教程

Today in England witchcraft and its more modern incarnation Wicca are pagan religions. Wiccans worship the Gods and spirits of nature. In return for their faith, the spirits grant them the power of magic. It was this power that first drew Gaylice Kar

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2007年

Lesson 18: Electric currents in modern art 现代艺术的电流 Listen to the tape then answer the question below. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 How might some of the exhibits have been dangerous? Modern sculpture rarely surprises us any mo

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(316) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语第三册

Before the 1850's, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 新东方背诵文选

Stephan: Whats that? Livia: Its my latest artwork. Its experimental. Stephan: Its, um... Livia: Abstract. Its part of a performance art piece Im putting together. Itll really challenge peoples perceptions of reality. Stephan: I dont really understand

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 地道美语播客

Many mothers in Britain have to juggle their work and home life. Father leaves for work in the morning after breakfast. The two children take the bus to school, and mother stays home cooking and cleaning until father and the kids return home in the

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 Take Away English

18.Modern American Universities Before the 1850s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(396) / 评论(0) 分类 英语范文背诵20篇

PEOPLE IN AMERICA - John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Sunday, October 17, 2004 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Graphic Image And I'm Shirley Griffith with

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 People in America

Broadcast: Mar 11, 2003 It's hard to say when or where the world's first signature petition was circulated, but in general, historians believe two things had to happen before the petition could truly

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2003(上)-科技先知

EXPLORATIONS - Wonders of the World, Part 3, Modern Wonders By Paul Thompson Broadcast: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 Explorations

By Nina Maria Potts Ypres, Belgium 26 March 2008 The fields around the battlefield of Ypres, the site of four years of bloodshed during World War I, are littered with hidden trenches, bunkers and dugouts that are being excavated by archaeologists. Bu

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(三月)

The script of this programme 本节目台词 A gallery big enough for everyone Andrea: Tate Modern is Britains national museum of modern art. Jean: 自从泰特现代美术馆在2000年建馆以来,已经有4百万游客到这里游览观赏。 Andrea: Today we get artistic in Londo

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 都市掠影

Modern Talking--Brother Louie Dear, love is a burning fire Stay, cause then the flames grow higher Babe, don't let him steel your heart It's easy, it's easy Girl, this game can't last forever Why ? Why can not live together Modern Talking Try, don't

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 好听的英文歌曲

LOS ANGELES, June 20 (Xinhua) -- The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) on Monday presented two top prizes of the Critics Choice Television Awards to ABC's hit Modern Family and AMC's Mad Men. Modern Family was named best comedy seri

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(437) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

How to Find Peace of Mind in the Modern World In my opinion this is the biggest problem we face as modern people. We might have flashy gadgets and shiny cool things, but in the end when it comes down to peace of mind we have nothing. I know for me at

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

When the sun circle appears to me, I embrace the world and all it's pluses When the summer day ceases to be, I take to riding far away on buses... I thought of you almost every hour I thought of you as my companion I thought that you might be a flowe

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 美国乡村音乐
学英语单词
Abhidhamma, Pitaka
airwell
alternate communication
as heavy as a bag of as lead
at the other extreme
Atodabanian Age
birah (bire)
Blue Grass belle
Bragg-Kleeman rule
BRCT
butt joining
C-message filter
capital-in-excess account
cementstone group
chart recording paper
chemoreceptivity
Chinese white dolphin
claim the moral high ground
clike
color holography
colour filter
commercial policy
common calamint
compensator valve
continuous-random network
cranked fish plate
damping parameter
davisonite
differential teaction rate
discharge of sewage
dispersoid distribution
double eccentric gear
earth rubber
Elie Metchnikov
empty-headedness
endolasers
english slang
epifluorescence
f.i.o.
fettle
fixed-width
fluid pulse converter
fluvicoline
fragmentation of nucleus
glaucomatous fleck
graphic elements
groupmate
healfb-education
high-dependency
hold with sth
identity crisis
induced spread
iraimbilanja
ivory gull
Kimpoko
leiotropic
Lepidosaphinae
linear lightning
linearly polarised mode
lungee
media cultivation effect
microcytase
newnesses
Newtonian capacity
nonlower
ompr
overlooked
pemmatites
petaurus breviceps
pinup girl
pneumatic piston servo-drive
prefuse
protein clock
psychosocial functioning
pulsation pole
radioactive tracer gas
rami superior
red-bag
reevacuate
reinterviews
relative cold loss
rule interpreter
shot our mouth off
single face telegraph
some here
sophisticated electronic diagnostic system
soundness of cement
sparry intraclastic calcarenite
stemmles
sterling balances
straight-line motion mechanism
sturnus vulgaris poltaratskyi
surface mounted luminaire
synthetic syntonic circuit
the daughter of fire
Thiobacteriales
trailed tractor plow
trehearne
trichinous
vena thoracalis lateralis
wildebeest
XOP