modern-day
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1. | 现代的；当代的of the present time |
2. | 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 |
| It has been called modern-day slavery. 人们称之为现代版的奴隶制度。 |
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Some consumers even consider shopping to be something of a sport, perhaps even the modern-day national pastime.
不过有的消费者却把购物视为一项体育运动，甚至是当下国民消磨时间的方式。
"Imagine a spider silk vest, capable of catching bullets, the modern day equivalent of Genghis Khan's arrows, " she said.
她说：“想象一下可以挡住子弹的蜘蛛丝背心，子弹就相当于成吉思汗的箭。”
You may be dealing with a modern day Napoleon in the office if your manager demands the unachievable from her subordinates.
如果你的经理强求她的下属完成不可能任务，那你可能就是遭遇了现代办公室拿破仑。
Bambiraptor had a keen sniffer similar to that of a modern-day turkey vulture.
斑比盗龙拥有与现代的土耳其秃鹰一样敏锐的嗅觉。
The Billings were a modern-day, magnanimous sort of Brady Bunch -- each had two children from previous marriages.
比林斯夫妇是现代版的布雷迪家庭——两个人在前一段婚姻中都生育过两个孩子。
Bloody hell, I felt good after that performance, as if I was in a low-budget, modern-day version of Robin Hood.
哇塞，说完这句话感觉超棒，仿佛我就是现代版的罗宾汉。
For a small but increasingly high-profile number of young women in modern-day China, true love is all about the numbers.
当代中国，对一小部分但人数正逐年增加的高调年轻女士来说，真爱就是数字。
In a backyard of this dusty, isolated town in the heart of Australia's outback are signs of a modern-day gold rush.
卡尔古利这个位于澳大利亚内陆的尘土飞扬的偏远小镇正显露出现代淘金热的种种迹象。
More than once, Mr Blair suggests that the role of a modern-day prime minister is like that of a corporate CEO.
布莱尔不止一次指出，现代社会中首相的角色就像公司总裁一样。
It was also possible that modern-day researchers might have missed important clues about where Cleopatra was buried.
对当代的研究者来说，遗漏一些重要的关于克里欧佩特拉墓葬的线索也是有可能的。
Almost pulled down in the 1960s to make way for a second ring road around the modern day city, a large portion in fact escaped destruction.
大约在20世纪60年代，为了在现代化的新城外围再铺一条环形公路，老城墙被推倒了，事实上大部分还是躲过了浩劫。
Fantastic to see that the superb modern-day British morals have now made it into the Olympics.
看到了不起的现代英国人的操品已经进入到了奥运会，很好。
Milton Friedman held unswervingly to his principles, but was more pragmatic than some of his modern-day followers.
对于自己的信条，米尔顿.弗里德曼始终坚定不移，但与其当代追随者相比，他却更加务实。
It could, like the modern-day albatross, glide by navigating through thermals but was also fully capable of powered flight.
它有可能跟现代信天翁一样靠热感应指引方向滑翔，但要全力飞翔还得借助动力。
Giganto, as it is called for short, seems to have been a bamboo eater, something like modern day panda bears.
巨猿简称希甘托，这个名字听上去好像是吃竹子的，就像现代的熊猫。
In a few short weeks I had traced The Secret back trough the centuries, and I had discovered the modern-day practitioners of The Secret.
短短几个星期内，我回溯数个世纪史料追踪这个秘密，并发现了这秘密的当代实践者。
He's a modern day master making incredible 3D images that pop off the page - armed only with a pencil and a piece of paper.
他是当代制作惊人3D图像的大师，仅仅用纸和铅笔就能画出似乎会从纸上蹦出来的图像。
That was eight years ago and I'm only now making beginning to make peace with my modern-day gender dilemma.
那是八年以前，而现在的我却和如今的两难选择妥协。
Service to a higher cause breeds loyalty. The most popular character, at least among our group, was Omar, a modern-day Robin Hood.
我们这个团体认为最热门的人物就是Omar，他是一个现代罗宾汉似的人物。
He had none of the modern day scientific equipment and he was way ahead of his time.
在没有当代科学设备的情况下，达芬奇的成就早已超越他所在的时代。
The British divided up the Indian empire into 3 parts, the central part, with a Hindu majority, became modern-day India.
大不列颠帝国把印度分成三个部分：中间的有大多数印度人的一个部分成为了今天的印度。
Because of his infatuation with the natural world, one could almost understand Malick as a sort of modern day Francis of Assisi.
和母亲一样，杰克对自然界十分地迷恋，他的形象让人不禁将他视为现代亚西西的方济格。
When on the surface, the quartermasters may use a sextant to obtain navigation fixes as a backup to our modern day systems.
当在水面时，航海士官长们可以使用六分仪来获得航行定位以作为我们现代定位系统的备用资料。
But the plan backfired, with modern-day historians claiming that Versailles was a key factor in the lead-up to World War II.
但这一计划事与愿违，按照当代历史学家们的观点，《凡尔赛条约》是引发二战的重要因素的关键。
It's about one and a half inches square, it's very thin and it looks and feels a bit like a modern-day business card.
它大约有一英寸半，正方形，非常的薄，外观和感觉有点像是现代名片。
The answer goes back to William James, one of the founders of modern-day psychology, who made a distinction between two types of attention.
威廉姆·詹姆斯可以回答这个问题。他是当代心理学的奠基者之一，他指明了两种注意力的不同。
For instance, modern-day ice cracks off Antarctica are "chockablock" with single-celled life-forms, he said.
例如，现今南极洲的冰川裂缝中就满是单细胞生物。
The documentaries also show that it is possible for victims of modern-day slavery to regain their freedom.
纪录片同时说明遭受现代奴役的人有可能重获自由。
In fact, there was no "old religion" and modern day Wicca originated in the 20th century and was popularized by Gerald Gardner in 1954.
事实上，根本就没有“旧宗教”，而且现代巫术起源于20世纪，并于1954年由杰拉尔德·加德纳推广。
Much of the work on modern day pricing theory started in a still obscure field known as psychophysics.
当今估价理论的大部分著作都起源于“精神物理学”，这是一个至今依然令人费解的领域。
Enjoy lush blends of synthesizer, piano, cello, flute, and guitar as you experience a modern day revival of classic compositions.
在体验这些被重新赋予现代生命力的古典作品时，好好地来一场完美融合了电子合成乐、钢琴、大提琴、长笛与吉他的丰盛飨宴。
With modern shop fittings, the modern-day pawn brokers have sprung up in prime locations in town centres.
现在的当铺开在商业街最好的位置，有着时髦的装修，吸引着不同的顾客。
For the most part the mainframes of privilege and wealth are still in place in modern-day Europe.
主流架构中绝大多数特权和财富，依旧保留到了现代欧洲。
Super high heels are very impractical, and with the damage they do, wearing them might even be described as modern-day foot binding!
超高的高跟鞋是非常不实用的，鉴于他们对脚部的伤害，堪称为现代的裹脚布。
Enemas are the predecessors to modern day colonic irrigation using state-of-the-art colon hydrotherapy equipment.
灌肠是前人现代结肠灌洗用状态--艺术大肠水疗法设备。
The famous 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。
Northern Anhui was firmly a part of the North China Plain in terms of culture, together with modern-day Henan province.
安徽北部与现今的河南省在文化方面一起构成了中国北方平原的一部分。
More than one pundit, praising Jobs' ability to transform entire industries with his inventions, called him a modern-day Leonardo Da Vinci.
不止一位大儒称赞乔布斯的才能，他通过自己的发明让整个产业转型，他被称作是当代的达芬奇。
All of these factors, of course, were beyond Auerbach's ken. But they do make modern-day coaching a more complicated undertaking.
所有这些因素都超出了奥尔巴赫那个时代太多，但是这些因素也个现代教练执教提出了更复杂的任务。
Ban Ki-moon has just returned from the Arctic where he traveled to see firsthand how modern-day climate change is altering the region.
潘基文刚从北极归来。他在那里见证了现代气候变化改变该地区形势的第一手资料。
