latter-day [
'lætɚ'de]
a. 近代的, 现代的
latter-day[ adj ]
belonging to the present or recent times
<adj.all>
the latter-day problems of our society
- "We are a more bloodthirsty region," Wicks said. "Executions in the South are sort of latter-day lynchings." For $2 a minute, anyone with a phone can hear a "Beat Helms" message sponsored by a critic of Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
- The market's surge since 1987 has largely dispelled the fear that a latter-day version of the 1930s Depression lurks around the corner.
- Hence, TPA is no latter-day penicillin.
- These latter-day scalawags would be ill-advised to take advantage of the situation, if they ever expect to face the people of South Carolina again.
- Sir, In the great energy debate the FT will wish to make the case that sound economics must not be swamped by latter-day sentimentality about British coal mining.
- And like the Christ who tipped over the tables of the money-changers in Jerusalem, Girzone's latter-day Jesus has radical ideas to change humanity's relationship with God.
- Indeed, you come away from this show with the impression that Andrew Wyeth is not so much a latter-day Winslow Homer as he is a tougher and more interesting version of Norman Rockwell.
- JACKSON MINISERIES: Motown Productions will produce an ABC miniseries on the musical Jackson family, from its beginnings as the Jackson 5 in the early 1970s to the latter-day superstardom of Michael and Janet.
- Reviewers objected to Williams as a latter-day Mr. Chips and found the tragic ending out of keeping with the rest of the film. But "Dead Poets Society," directed by another Australian, Peter Weir, sold $94 million in theater tickets.
- Perhaps, ideologically speaking, that sat neatly with the yakuza's romanticised view of themselves as latter-day Robin Hoods (no pun in Japanese).
- Stretching 2,990 square yards of Dacron, this latter-day descendant needs only 35 officers and seamen. "Not counting our most versatile hand, the computer," adds the captain.