contemporary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 同时代的, 当代的 n. 同龄人, 同时代的人，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everyone can understand that a collection of such strange young men would attract the at-tention of a person interested in contemporary life.
-- Fancy what we have been dis-cussing!You know the question, 'to be or not to be,' out of Hamlet!A contemporary theme!Quite up-to-date!Mr.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And to say nothing of historical instances dating from the "Fair Helen" of Menelaus, recently revived in the memory of all, a whole list of contemporary examples of husbands with unfaithful wives in the highest society rose before Alexey Alexandrovitch's imagination.
-- He was well acquainted with the way dilettanti have (the cleverer they were the worse he found them) of looking at the works of contemporary artists with the sole object of being in a position to say that art is a thing of the past, and that the more one sees of the new men the more one sees how inimitable the works of the great old masters have remained.
-- Levin knew his brother and the workings of his intellect: he knew that his unbelief came not from life being easier for him without faith, but had grown up because step by step the contemporary scientific interpretation of natural phenomena crushed out the possibility of faith; and so he knew that his present return was not a legitimate one, brought about by way of the same working of his intellect, but simply a temporary, interested return to faith in a desperate hope of recovery.
-- What was needed was to put in his place a fresh, capable, perfectly modern man, of contemporary ideas, and to frame their policy so as from the rights conferred upon the nobles, not as the nobility, but as an element of the district council, to extract all the powers of self-government that could possibly be derived from them.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett had no awe of her father and felt him more her contemporary than her sisters, for jumping fences andkeeping it a secret from his wife gave him a boyish pride and guilty glee that matched her own pleasure in outwittingMammy.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, led by the strangest destiny, I was treading under foot the mountains of this continent, touching with my hand those ruins a thousand generations old and contemporary with the geological epochs.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His countenance presents the extraordinary appearance of an antediluvian man, a true contemporary of the Megatherium.
-- This learned man, who holds such a high place in the scientific world, holds that the soil of Moulin-Quignon does not belong to the diluvium but to a much less ancient stratum, and, in accordance with Cuvier in this respect, he would by no means admit that the human species was contemporary with the animals of the Quaternary epoch.
-- By means of these wondrous and unexpected discoveries, man ascended endless centuries in the scale of time; he, in fact, preceded the mastodon; became the contemporary of the Elephas meridionalis--the southern elephant; acquired an antiquity of over a hundred thousand years, since that is the date given by the most eminent geologists to the Pliocene period of the earth.
-- "Yes," he continued, with renewed animation, "this is a fossil man, a contemporary of the mastodons, with the bones of which this whole amphitheater is covered.
-- "Then what can it be--unless it be the weapon of some antediluvian warrior," I continued, "of some living man, a contemporary of that mighty shepherd from whom we have just escaped?
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if you now come to separate these two objects, and surround each by a circle of profound darkness; then, in order to see one of them, in such a manner as to bring your mind to bear on it, the other will be utterly excluded from your contemporary consciousness.
-- It tasted something as I should conceive a royal cutlet from the thigh of Louis le Gros might have tasted, supposing him to have been killed the first day after the venison season, and that particular venison season contemporary with an unusually fine vintage of the vineyards of Champagne.
-- But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.
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