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n. 同时代人

  1. She and I were contemporaries at college.
    她和我在学院里是同学。
  2. Picasso overshadowed his contemporaries.
    毕卡索使与他同时代的画家相形见绌。


contemporaries
[ noun ]
all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
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Contemporary \Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, n.; pl. {Contemporaries}.
1. One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch
and Chaucer were contemporaries.

2. a person of nearly the same age as another.

Syn: coeval.
[WordNet 1.5]

contemporaries \contemporaries\ n.
all the people living at the same time or of approximately
the same age.

Syn: coevals, generation.
[WordNet 1.5]

  1. But while Cardin was the first of his contemporaries to be so honored at the museum, his mind was very much on the future.
  2. It is easy to say that one doesn't know how one would react to years inside; yet many of my contemporaries were imprisoned for years by Germans, Italians or Japanese and still seem normal.
  3. Through the window of 'Virgin and Child Before a Firescreen' we see the bustle of Tournai, people strolling, roofers up a ladder. Campin has been praised for pioneering the street-view, and no doubt his contemporaries were quite as amazed at his skill.
  4. And like their baby boom contemporaries in the United States, West Germans in their 30s and early 40s are gradually moving into the upper echelons of government and industry.
  5. He also did not mute his criticism of such contemporaries as John Middleton Murray, Katherine Mansfield, and Richard Aldington; and his letters indicate that he did not admire Robert Frost, or the poet H.D., who were being widely praised at the time.
  6. At a veterans post in his home town of Huntington, Ind., yesterday, some of his contemporaries expressed support.
  7. Their earnings have fallen significantly behind those going to college, and at the ballot box they vote in far fewer numbers both than the high-school graduates of the generation that elected Mr. Kennedy and their own better-educated contemporaries.
  8. Students or soldiers, Beaver's own contemporaries were probably too busy during the late 1960s to watch his reruns.
  9. These days, Gericault is merely hard to characterize and explain, but his contemporaries found his art both confusing and unsettling.
  10. His example directly influenced his contemporaries, set the character of much of our art school education well into the 1960s, and persists at a general level even today.
  11. He also was an expert on one of Webster's contemporaries, statesman and Vice President John Calhoun.
  12. Commission members have criticized not only Czinege and his contemporaries but also the entire 42-year Communist era in Hungary.
  13. "Florentine Drawings" An examination of the work of the 16th-century mannerist artist Jacopo Pontormo and his contemporaries.
  14. To have current members investigate, weigh charges, conduct quasi-trials and issue recommendations on their colleagues and contemporaries simply doesn't make any sense anymore, if it ever did.
  15. Maybe I'm a victim of some form of 1960s elitism, but I can't see New Age sound as a framework for musical innovation that my contemporaries couldn't find elsewhere by listening to Genesis, U2 or Phillip Glass.
  16. Anyway, I could now thumb my nose at the draft board, which ere long was calling up my contemporaries for Army service.
  17. Mr. Hirschbein didn't think this very early Schubert could stand on his own legs and considered putting works by Schubert's contemporaries on the programs to underscore the intellectual thrust of the concerts and to shore up the juvenilia.
  18. Some of his friends and contemporaries were well to the left of him: for instance, Woodrow Wyatt, Bob Mellish and George Thomas (now Lord Tonypandy).
  19. As an economist he won acclaim from many of his contemporaries for introducing the 1948 currency reform that paved the way to the Wirtschaftswunder, the German economic miracle.
  20. Now, when their contemporaries are enjoying days of golf and theater and retiring in comfort to Florida or Arizona, what earthly reward awaits many of the nation's priests, brothers and sisters? More work.
  21. Eleven of these drawings, black chalk studies of famous contemporaries, were engraved as a series and published between 1636-41 as The Iconography.
  22. Frankly, although Barbara Bush is an admirable person, she does not represent a role model to me, my daughter or her contemporaries.
  23. No matter how routine Mr. Lewis and his contemporaries may see it, companies and governments still need money and financial advice; institutions and individuals still need to buy stocks and bonds.
  24. Andrei Gromyko, with Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam, can be seen as the last of Mr. Kennan's doughty Soviet contemporaries.
  25. Third, one writes for one's contemporaries, assumes the historical references and allusions will be understood, and that the meaning of the doctrines and slogans of the period one is writing about is common coin.
  26. With a monotonal speech delivery and a decided dislike for public feuding, Bradley is a far cry from such contemporaries as New York's Edward Koch.
  27. For all his insouciance, improvisation and persiflage, he saw more deeply than his contemporaries into the great emergent movements of modern history.
  28. And not until the end of the chapter do we find that contemporaries were struck by the "evident success" of the economy that even benefited the "labouring masses."
  29. Though his parents were of Jewish origin he had the same classically-oriented general education as his gentile contemporaries.
  30. It is liberally intercut with clips from his greatest pictures and includes telling interviews with his friends and contemporaries.
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