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

• Lincoln and General Lee were contemporaries.
  林肯和李将军是同时代的人。
• Tom and I were contemporaries at college.
  汤姆和我同时上的大学。
• The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.
  某些个人是否伟大，只能由那些生活在他们之后的人来决定，而无法由其同代人来决定。
• The Bible furnished him and his contemporaries with images and illustrations to suit every occasion.
  圣经为他和同代人物提供了适用于每一场合的人物和实例。
• 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。
• He was looked down upon by his contemporaries. a novel that is a comment on contemporary lawlessness.
  他被他的同时代的人瞧不起。一本对同时代的人作评论的小说。
• 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。
• Jack and I were contemporaries at college.
  杰克和我同时读大学。
• 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。
• 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。