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：
-- His geographical works, his papers on modern discoveries, inserted in the reports of the Society, and his world-wide correspondence, gave him a most distinguished place among the LITERATI of France.
-- It was "Richardson's Compendium," a work in great repute in England, and more in agreement with modern science than the manual in use in the Normal School in Melbourne.
-- Could a modern geographer or a sailor concede to them such a designation.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I understand that it is something more modern and practical upon which you wish to consult me?'
-- For two hours the strange business in which we had been involved appeared to be forgotten, and he was entirely absorbed in the pictures of the modern Belgian masters.
-- To right and left of the turrets were more modern wings of black granite.
-- These rooms appeared to be much more modern than the central part of the house, and the bright paper and numer-ous candles did something to remove the sombre impression which our arrival had left upon my mind.
-- We talked little, and I for one was glad when the meal was over and we were able to retire into the modern billiard-room and smoke a cigarette.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fact is it is all of a piece with these modern ideas, that wretched woman's question!Six months ago Aglaya took a fancy to cut off her magnificent hair.
-- Nature appears to one, looking at this picture, as some huge, implacable, dumb monster; or still better a stranger simile some enormous mechanical engine of modern days which has seized and crushed and swallowed up a great and invaluable Being, a Being worth nature and all her laws, worth the whole earth, which was perhaps created merely for the sake of the advent of that Being.
-- He is adrunkard to begin with, and a liberal (in the sense of other people's pockets), otherwise with more of the ancient knight about him than of the modern liberal.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many corps of American riflemen have been thus attired, and the dress is one of the most striking of modern times.
-- However implicit the faith of David was in the perfor-mance of ancient miracles, he eschewed the belief of any direct supernatural agency in the management of modern morality.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was withal a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set of her charms.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 芒聭麓"A Modern Artist: Notes on the Work of Charles Strickland," by Edward Leggatt, A.R.H.A.
-- The modern clergyman has acquired in his study of the science which I believe is called exegesis an astonishing facility for explaining things away, but the subtlety with which the Rev.
-- He was a famous poet in his day, and the world recognised his genius with a unanimity which the greater complexity of modern life has rendered infrequent.
-- Some were modern and some were old-fashioned.
-- His Olympia seemed to me the greatest picture of modern times, and Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe moved me profoundly.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The glade was transformed into a manufactory, and Pencroft was not far wrong in believing that from this kiln would issue all the products of modern industry.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In some versions of the great drama of Punch there is a small dog a modern innovation supposed to be the private property of that gentleman, whose name is always Toby.
-- Hard by these gravestones of dead years, and forming a part of the ruin which some pains had been taken to render habitable in modern times, were two small dwellings with sunken windows and oaken doors, fast hastening to decay, empty and desolate.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amongst the works of modern painters were pictures with the signatures of Delacroix, Ingres, Decamps, Troyon, Meissonier, Daubigny, etc.
-- In my eyes, your modern artists are already old; they have two or three thousand years of existence; I confound them in my own mind.
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