modern-day

英 [ˌmɒdn ˈdeɪ]

美 [ˌmɑːdərn ˈdeɪ]

adj.  现代的; 当代的; 现代版的，翻新的(通常用于消极事物)

Collins.1

牛津词典

adj.

• 现代的；当代的
  of the present time
  1. modern-day America
     当代美国
• 现代版的，翻新的（通常用于消极事物）
  used to describe a modern form of sb/sth, usually sb/sth bad or unpleasant, that existed in the past
  1. It has been called modern-day slavery.
     人们称之为现代版的奴隶制度。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 现代的;当代的
  Modern-dayis used to refer to the new or modern aspects of a place, an activity, or a society.
  1. ...modern-day America.
     当代美国
  2. ...the by-products of modern-day living.
     现代生活的副产品

英英释义

adj

• characteristic of the present
  1. contemporary trends in design
  2. the role of computers in modern-day medicine
  Synonym:contemporary

双语例句

• But in the modern-day newspaper market, price is not necessarily the key issue.
  但在现代报纸市场，价格未必是关键问题。
• The film transposes Austen's comedy of manners to modern-day India.
  这部电影将奥斯丁的社交喜剧的背景换成了现代印度。
• The modern-day plastic revolution is manifest in Japan and the countries of western Europe.
  现代的塑料革命在日本和西欧国家是明显的。
• Bosses have produced a modern-day drama about the fictional 19th Century detective and his sidekick.
  老大们根据19世纪名侦探和他的死党的小说改编了一部现代剧。
• The novel is a portrayal of a modern-day woman.
  这篇小说塑造了一个新的女性形象。
• Scripting languages like Ruby, Python, and PHP power modern-day server-side Web development.
  诸如Ruby、Python和PHP这样的脚本语言可助力当今的服务器端Web开发。
• A modern-day proBlem unknown in earlier times. All the sides of the question have come into focus now.
  在从前不为人所知的现代的问题现在问题的所有方面都清楚了。
• The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New guinea.
  1961年西巴布亚岛共和国宣布独立，即今日的西新几内亚。
• The Great Pyramid is the largest of three Pyramids at Giza, bordering modern-day Cairo.
  大金字塔在吉萨是三座金字塔中最大的，毗接于现代开罗的边境。
• Disney Imagineers would be lost without the modern-day myths they use as the foundation for the experiences they build.
  如果没有现代社会的约定俗成，著名的迪斯尼幻想家们就失去了他们创建的体验基础。