contemporaries

1. ADJ-GRADED 当代的;现代的
   Contemporary things 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。
2. ADJ 同时发生的;同时期的;同时代的
   Contemporary people 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
3. N-COUNT 同时期的人;同时代的人
   Someone's contemporary is 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

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. Perhaps I'm a bit more experienced about life than my contemporaries.
   可能我比同龄人更有生活经验。
3. He was celebrated amid his contemporaries.
   他在他的同代人中名声显赫。
4. Apparently he speaks for a lot of his contemporaries.
   很明显，他的话代表了许多同龄人的看法。
5. His statement was true, if foolish, and my contemporaries and I benefited.
   他的这番话尽管可能有些愚蠢，却也说的是实情，我及我的同代人都是受益者。
6. 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。
7. Bach's gifts towered over those of his contemporaries.
   巴赫的天赋超过他所有同时代的人。这是一个翻天覆地的时代。
8. Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries that they fall below Donne in wit, but maintains that they surpass him in poetry.
   德莱顿承认他自己和他的同辈在机智上不如邓恩，但在诗歌上他们坚持超越了他。
9. Einstein was a man who towered above his contemporaries.
   爱因斯坦是一个超出其同代人的人。
10. It is true that among her contemporaries she passed for a young woman of profundity.
    确实，在她的同时代人中，她被公认是一个深奥莫测的少女。
11. The two famous authors were contemporaries who spent a lot of time together.
    那两位著名作家是同时代人，他们在一起度过了一段漫长的岁月。
12. But then I started to think about my contemporaries and my spirits began to lift.
    然而，想想我的同龄人，我又打起了精神。
13. Phelps pauses in silence, then points to some of his contemporaries also listed.
    费尔普斯短暂地沉默了一会儿，然后指着一些同样列在纪念碑上的同代人。
14. Jack and I were contemporaries at college.
    杰克和我同时读大学。
15. He wrote pungently about his contemporaries.
    他写文章尖锐地批判了他同时代的人。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. Lincoln and General Lee were contemporaries.
    林肯和李将军是同时代的人。
19. Tom and I were contemporaries at college.
    汤姆和我同时上的大学。
20. 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。
21. Future economic historians will probably regard Wim Duisenberg, his predecessor, more kindly than his contemporaries have done.
    与同时代人相比，将来的经济史学家很可能对特里谢的前任德伊森贝赫（WimDuisenberg）评价更友善。
22. 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。
23. She doesn't mix with her contemporaries but prefers the company of older people.
    她不和她的同龄人混在一起，而是喜欢和年长的人相处。
24. Politicians always believe that history will think better of them than their contemporaries.
    政客们总是相信，历史对他们的评价会好于同时代人的评价。
25. It was an audacious piece of thinking and one that outraged and impressed his contemporaries.
    这是一个十分大胆的想法，在给他的同代人留下深刻影响的同时杜尚也激怒了他们。
26. 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。
27. He and I were almost contemporaries in Cambridge.
    剑桥大学时代他和我差不多同届。
28. Environmentalists have traditionally relied upon the power of their prose to transform the thoughts and behavior of their contemporaries.
    环境保护论者通常是依靠他们散文的力量来改变同时代人的思想和行为。
29. 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。

noun

1. all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

   Synonym:    coevalsgeneration