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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such, then, was the PERSONNEL of this yacht, so unexpectedly called to make one of the most wonderful voyages of modern times.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had never been one of the modern ladylike young men: rather bucolic even, with his ruddy face and broad shoulders.
-- Connie and he were attached to one another, in the aloof modern way.
-- And since the field of life is largely an artificially-lighted stage today, the stories were curiously true to modern life, to the modern psychol-ogy, that is.
-- They appeared in the most modern magazines, and were praised and blamed as usual.
-- Connie wondered a little over Clifford's blind, imperious instinct to become known: known, that is, to the vast amor-phous world he did not himself know, and of which he was uneasily afraid; known as a writer, as a first-class modern writer.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were antiquities from Central Italy, made by the best modern houses in that department of industry; bits of mummy from Egypt (and perhaps Birmingham); model gondolas from Venice; model villages from Switzerland; morsels of tesselated pavement from Herculaneum and Pompeii, like petrified minced veal; ashes out of tombs, and lava out of Vesuvius; Spanish fans, Spezzian straw hats, Moorish slippers, Tuscan hairpins, Carrara sculpture, Trastaverini scarves, Genoese velvets and filigree, Neapolitan coral, Roman cameos, Geneva jewellery, Arab lanterns, rosaries blest all round by the Pope himself, and an infinite variety of lumber.
-- Little Dorrit, though of the unheroic modern stock and mere English, did much more, in comforting her father's wasted heart upon her innocent breast, and turning to it a fountain of love and fidelity that never ran dry or waned through all his years of famine.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress.
-- 'So do I,' added her husband, who welcomed the thought of a chance for trying the Socratic method of education on modern youth.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By all accounts Tarshish could have been no other city than the modern Cadiz.
-- Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean, the Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the westward from that, just outside the Straits of Gibraltar.
-- It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for their functions is gone through.
-- And that the Egyptians were a nation of mast-head standers, is an assertion based upon the general belief among arch脙娄ologists, that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stair-like formation of all four sides of those edifices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; even as the look-outs of a modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing in sight.
-- Of modern standers-of-mast-heads we have but a lifeless set; mere stone, iron, and bronze men; who, though well capable of facing out a stiff gale, are still entirely incompetent to the business of singing out upon discovering any strange sight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER XXIX HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH OLIVER RESORTED In a handsome room: though its furniture had rather the air of old-fashioned comfort, than of modern elegance: there sat two ladies at a well-spread breakfast-table.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expres-sions, or the word will be but half-deserved.'
-- It was a handsome modern building, well situ-ated on rising ground.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She blushed at this hint; but it was even visibly gratifying to her; and after a ten minutes' interval of earnest thought, she came to her sister again, and said with great good humour, "Perhaps, Elinor, it WAS rather ill-judged in me to go to Allenham; but Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to shew me the place; and it is a charming house, I assure you. There is one remarkably pretty sitting room up stairs; of a nice comfortable size for constant use, and with modern furniture it would be delightful.
-- But there are many works well worth reading at the Park; and there are others of more modern production which I know I can borrow of Colonel Brandon.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The pleased eye with which our modern restaurants of fashion are looked upon is proof of this assertion.
-- For all the liberal analysis of Spencer and our modern naturalistic philosophers, we have but an infantile perception of morals.
-- Mr. Slawson owned the property adjoining, and was going to put up a modern office building.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turns on me, looking pitying enough to make a body cry, and says: 'Huck Finn, did you EVER hear of a prisoner having picks and shovels, and all the modern conveniences in his wardrobe to dig himself out with?
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