up-to-date是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 现代化的， 最新的； 跟上时代的，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some day when you get time, glance over this volume of clippings--just to show you, Doctor, what you can do if you go at the Movement in the up-to-date and scientific manner.
-- Ought to give this city a lasting lesson in the value of up-to-date health methods.
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：
-- So we cover the earth with foulness; life is a blotch of labour, like insects scurrying in filth, so that your collier can have a pianoforte in his parlour, and you can have a butler and a motor-car in your up-to-date house, and as a nation we can sport the Ritz, or the Empire, Gaby Deslys and the Sunday newspapers.
-- Alexander the up-to-date host, so bloodlessly free-and-easy, Fr脙陇ulein so prettily chiming in just as she should, the little Italian Countess taking notice of everybody, only playing her little game, objective and cold, like a weasel watching everything, and extracting her own amusement, never giving herself in the slightest; then Miss Bradley, heavy and rather subservient, treated with cool, almost amused contempt by Hermione, and therefore slighted by everybody how known it all was, like a game with the figures set out, the same figures, the Queen of chess, the knights, the pawns, the same now as they were hundreds of years ago, the same figures moving round in one of the innumerable permutations that make up the game.
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：
-- If I had sons of my own, no doubt they would have up-to-date ideas for Shipley: no doubt!By the way, dear boy, is there any foundation to the rumour that we may entertain hopes of an heir to Wragby?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This hotel had already reached that stage, and the soldier in a filthy uniform smoking in the entry, supposed to stand for a hall-porter, and the cast-iron, slippery, dark, and disagreeable staircase, and the free and easy waiter in a filthy frock coat, and the common dining room with a dusty bouquet of wax flowers adorning the table, and filth, dust, and disorder everywhere, and at the same time the sort of modern up-to-date self-complacent railway uneasiness of this hotel, aroused a most painful feeling in Levin after their fresh young life, especially because the impression of falsity made by the hotel was so out of keeping with what awaited them.
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