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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


    1. "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.
    2. The market's surge since 1987 has largely dispelled the fear that a latter-day version of the 1930s Depression lurks around the corner.
    3. Hence, TPA is no latter-day penicillin.
    4. 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.
    5. 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.
    6. 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.
    7. 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.
    8. 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.
    9. 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.
    10. Perhaps, ideologically speaking, that sat neatly with the yakuza's romanticised view of themselves as latter-day Robin Hoods (no pun in Japanese).
    11. 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.
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