modern是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 现代的， 近代的， 新式的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We have so asserted our station, both in the old time and in the modern time also,' said the nephew, gloomily, 'that I believe our name to be more detested than any name in France.'
-- Thrown out of his honourable employment in England, through too much unsuccessful hard swearing there not because he was not wanted there; our English reasons for vaunting our superiority to secrecy and spies are of very modern date he knew that he had crossed the Channel, and accepted service in France: first, as a tempter and an eavesdropper among his own countrymen there: gradually, as a tempter and an eavesdropper among the natives.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I like reading all useful works; but I do not on that account despise the modern ones; 'tis only the unfor-tunate 'Tales of Every-day Life' that I cannot bear we have enough and more than enough such in reality.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My colleagues: Philip Ivanitch Nikitin, Mihail Stanislavitch Grinevitch"--and turning to Levin--"a district councilor, a modern district councilman, a gymnast who lifts thirteen stone with one hand, a cattle-breeder and sportsman, and my friend, Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin, the brother of Sergey Ivonovitch Koznishev."
-- The conversation did not flag for an instant, so that the princess, who always kept in reserve, in case a subject should be lacking, two heavy guns--the relative advantages of classical and of modern education, and universal military service--had not to move out either of them, while Countess Nordston had not a chance of chaffing Levin.
-- He earthed up his potatoes with a modern plough borrowed from a neighboring landowner.
-- Now, in our own day, we landowners in the serf times used various improvements in our husbandry: drying machines and thrashing machines, and carting manure and all the modern implements--all that we brought into use by our authority, and the peasants opposed it at first, and ended by imitating us.
-- They agreed that the modern plough ploughed better, that the scarifier did the work more quickly, but they found thousands of reasons that made it out of the question for them to use either of them; and though he had accepted the conviction that he would have to lower the standard of cultivation, he felt sorry to give up improved methods, the advantages of which were so obvious.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not fail to observe the curious equipages carriages and palanquins, barrows supplied with sails, and litters made of bamboo; nor the women whom he thought not especially handsome who took little steps with their little feet, whereon they wore canvas shoes, straw sandals, and clogs of worked wood, and who displayed tight-looking eyes, flat chests, teeth fashionably blackened, and gowns crossed with silken scarfs, tied in an enormous knot behind an ornament which the modern Parisian ladies seem to have borrowed from the dames of Japan.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ira clenched his fist and scowled, then belched with laughter, slapped Martin distressingly on the back, and clamored, "Brother, you've got to do better than that to get Ira's goat!You think you've got a lot of these fancy Modern Doubts.
-- Now that I am leaving this field where I have labored so long and happily, I want to ask every man jack of you to read, before you begin to practice medicine, not merely your Rosenau and Howell and Gray, but also, as a preparation for being that which all good citizens must be, namely, practical men, a most valuable little manual of modern psychology, 'How to Put Pep in Salesmanship,' by Grosvenor A. Bibby.
-- Bertie was a very articulate and modern man of affairs.
-- You may drive through blizzard and August heat, and go down into the purple-shadowed vale of sorrow and wrestle with the ebon- cloaked Powers of Darkness for the lives of your patients, but that heroism is incomplete without Modern Progress, to be obtained by the use of a Bindledorf Tonsillectomy Outfit and the New Idea Panaceatic Cabinet, to be obtained on small payment down, rest on easiest terms known in history of medicine!
-- He returned from the state convention of the Modern Woodmen of America with notions.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Mr. Lebeziatnikov who keeps up with modern ideas explained the other day that compassion is forbidden nowadays by science itself, and that that's what is done now in England, where there is political economy.
-- I kissed the dust at his feet in thought only, for in reality he would not have allowed me to do it, being a statesman and a man of modern political and enlightened ideas.
-- I'm always sitting and so glad to be moving about for five minutes 芒聙娄 I suffer from my sedentary life 芒聙娄 I always intend to join a gymnasium; they say that officials of all ranks, even Privy Councillors, may be seen skipping gaily there; there you have it, modern science 芒聙娄 yes, yes芒聙娄.
-- A modern cultivated man would prefer prison to living with such strangers as our peasants.
-- In fact, I feel it strange myself how timid, chaste and modern she is with me!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It wasdown in Blackfriars, Modern improvements have altered the place;but it was the last house at the bottom of a narrow street, curvingdown hill to the river, with some stairs at the end, where peopletook boat.
-- 'Under the impression,' said Mr. Micawber, 'that yourperegrinations in this metropolis have not as yet been extensive,and that you might have some difficulty in penetrating the arcanaof the Modern Babylon in the direction of the City Road- in short,'said Mr. Micawber, in another burst of confidence, 'that you mightlose yourself- I shall be happy to call this evening, and instal you inthe knowledge of the nearest way.'
-- For my own part, I looked on Mr. JackMaldon as a modern Sinbad, and pictured him the bosom friend of 231all the Rajahs in the East, sitting under canopies, smoking curlygolden pipes- a mile long, if they could be straightened out.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The grounds of Hartfield were small, but neat and pretty; and the house was modern and well-built.
-- I admire all that quaint, old-fashioned polite-ness; it is much more to my taste than modern ease; modern ease often disgusts me.
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