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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This ship is a masterpiece of modern industry, and I should be sorry not to have seen it.
-- "That which is no longer dangerous for a modern vessel, well rigged, strongly built, and master of its own course, thanks to obedient steam, offered all sorts of perils to the ships of the ancients.
-- The chest was securely fastened, and the Captain wrote an address on the lid, in characters which must have belonged to Modern Greece.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe.
-- "It seems to me purely spontaneous and beautiful, the modern Italian's passion, for it is a passion, for Italy, l'Italia ""Do you know Italy well?"
-- And if you have a perfect modern house done for you by Poiret, it is something else perpetuated on top of you.
-- Gerald, with his force of will and his power for comprehending the actual world, should be set to solve the problems of the day, the problem of industrialism in the modern world.
-- It was a representation of a fair, with peasants and artisans in an orgy of enjoyment, drunk and absurd in their modern dress, whirling ridiculously in roundabouts, gaping at shows, kissing and staggering and rolling in knots, swinging in swing-boats, and firing down shooting galleries, a frenzy of chaotic motion.
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