modern

modern, contemporary, current, recent, present, up-to-date

这些形容词均有“现代的、当代的”之意。
modern: 指现代或近代，时期可长可短；也可指新颖、时髦的。
contemporary: 仅指当今这个时代，不涉及任何过去的时代，但可表示不同的人或物存在于同一时代。
current: 指目前存在和发生的。
recent: 表示新近的，最近的，时间的长短依据所修饰的人或物而定。
present: 是这些词中语气最强的一个。指现在正发生、起作用的。
up-to-date: 一般用于非正式场合，指很时新、能反映当前的最新发展。

名词 modern:

1. a contemporary person
2. a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes
   同义词：modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font

形容词 modern:

1. belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
2. relating to a recently developed fashion or style;
   同义词：mod, modernistic
3. characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
4. ahead of the times
   同义词：advanced, forward-looking, innovative
5. used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
   同义词：New

1. Modern agriculture is spoiling our beautiful countryside.
   现代农业正在破坏我们美丽的农村。
2. He can't adjust himself to the whirl of modern life in this big city.
   他无法适应这个大都市的现代生活的忙碌。
3. The modern office block sticks out like a sore thumb among the old buildings in the area.
   那座现代的办公楼直挺挺地竖在那片旧建筑物群中十分扎眼。
4. Her novel depicts life in modern London.
   她的小说描写的是伦敦现代的生活。
5. She wears a modern dress.
   她穿着一件时髦的礼服。
6. What do you think of modern art?
   你对现代艺术有何看法？
7. It's more useful to learn modern languages, such as English and German, than Latin.
   学习英语和德语等现代语言比学习拉丁语更为有用。

mod.ern

adj.Abbr. mod.（形容词）缩写 mod.

Of or relating to recent times or the present:
近代的：属于或有关最近的时间的或现在的：
例句：
modern history.
近代史

Characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present; contemporary or up-to-date:
现代的，新式的：显示或表现最近时间或现在的；现代的或最新的：
例句：
a modern lifestyle; a modern way of thinking.
现代生活方式；现代的思考方式

Of or relating to a recently developed or advanced style, technique, or technology:
现代的，最新的：属于或有关一种最近发展的或先进的风格、技能或技术：
例句：
modern art; modern medicine.
现代艺术；最新的医药

Avant-garde; experimental.
先锋的；试验性的
Modern Linguistics Of, relating to, or being a living language or group of languages:
Modern 【语言学】 现代的：属于、有关或作为一种正在使用的语言或语系的：
例句：
Modern Italian, Modern Romance languages.
现代意大利语，现代罗曼语系

n.（名词）
One who lives in modern times.
现代人：生活在现代的人
One who has modern ideas, standards, or beliefs.
时髦人士人：有现代思想、标准或信念的人
Printing Any of a variety of typefaces characterized by strongly contrasted heavy and thin parts.
【印刷术】 现代式印刷字型：铅字种类，其字样以强烈对比的重和细部分为特征

来源：
French moderne
法语 moderne
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Late Latin modernus
源自 后期拉丁语 modernus
from Latin modo [in a certain manner, just now]
源自 拉丁语 modo [以某种既定方式，刚才]
from modô [ablative of] modus [manner] * see med-
源自 modô [] modus的夺格 [方式] *参见 med-

【引伸】
mod.ernly
adv.（副词）
mod.ernness
n.（名词）
<注释>The wordmodern, first recorded in 585 in the sense .of present or recent times,. has traveled through the centuriesdesignating things that inevitably must become old-fashionedas the word itself goes on to the next modern thing.We have now invented the wordpostmodern, as if we could finally fixmodern in time, but evenpostmodern (first recorded in 949) will seem fusty in the end, perhaps sooner thanmodern will. Going back to Late Latinmodernus, .modern,. which is derived frommodo in the sense .just now,. the English wordmodern (first recorded at the beginning of the 'th century) was not originally concerned with anything that could be later considered old-fashioned. It simply meant .being at this time, now existing,. an obsolete sense today.Beginning in the later 'th century, however, we see the word contrasted with the wordancient and also used of technology in a way that is clearly related to our own modern way of using the word.Modern was being applied specifically to what pertained to present times and also to what was new and not old-fashioned.Thus in the 9th and 20th centuries the word could be used to designate a movement in art,which is now being followed by postmodernism.
单词modern 首次于585年以.现在的或最近的时代.的意义被记载， 它已经历了数个世纪，表明必然会变得过时的事物，就象这个词本身也会继续走向更加现代。现在我们已发明了单词postmodern， 仿佛我们终于能及时固定住modern 的了， 但即使是postmodern （首次于949年记载）最终也会显得过时， 也许比modern 更快。 可追溯至近代拉丁词modernus .现代的.， 源自表示.刚才.意思的modo ， 英语单词modern （首先在'世纪初被记载）原本与后来被认为过时的事物没有任何联系。 它只意味着.现时的，现存的.，今天已废弃了的一个意思。然而从'世纪晚期我们看到这个词成为ancient 的反义词并且用于科技， 其意义与我们现在使用的意义明显相关。Modern 当时特指现时的事物， 也指新的且不过时的事物。因此在9世纪和20世纪这个词能被用来表示艺术上的一个运动，现在尾随其后的是后现代主义