contemporaries

英 [kənˈtɛmpərəriz]

美 [kənˈtɛmpəˌrɛriz]

n. 同代人; 同辈人; 同龄人
contemporary的复数

柯林斯词典

ADJ-GRADED 当代的;现代的
Contemporarythings are modern and relate to the present time.
1. She writes a lot of contemporary music for people like Whitney Houston...
  她给像惠特尼·休斯敦这样的人写了很多当代音乐作品。
2. Perhaps he should have a more updated look, a more contemporary style...
  也许他应该有一个更新的形象，更具时代性的风格。
3. Only the names are ancient; the characters are modern and contemporary.
  只有姓名是古代的；人物都是现代的、摩登的。
ADJ 同时发生的;同时期的;同时代的
Contemporarypeople or things were alive or happened at the same time as something else you are talking about.
1. ...drawing upon official records and the reports of contemporary witnesses.
  利用官方的记录与当时的见证者的报告
N-COUNT 同时期的人;同时代的人
Someone'scontemporaryis a person who is or was alive at the same time as them.
1. Like most of my contemporaries, I grew up in a vastly different world.
  和大多数同辈人一样，我生长在一个截然不同的世界。
2. ...a glossary of musical terms found in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
  莎士比亚及其同时代人音乐术语汇编

noun

all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
Synonym:coevalsgeneration

Bach's gifts towered over those of his contemporaries.
巴赫的天赋超过他所有同时代的人。这是一个翻天覆地的时代。
He wrote pungently about his contemporaries.
他写文章尖锐地批判了他同时代的人。
The two famous authors were contemporaries who spent a lot of time together.
那两位著名作家是同时代人，他们在一起度过了一段漫长的岁月。
Lincoln and General Lee were contemporaries.
林肯和李将军是同时代的人。
My contemporaries don't even know the meaning of the word patriotism, he said.
我的同代人根本不知道爱国主义这个词的意思，他说。
Apparently he speaks for a lot of his contemporaries.
很明显，他的话代表了许多同龄人的看法。
Like most of my contemporaries, I grew up in a vastly different world.
和大多数同辈人一样，我生长在一个截然不同的世界。
It was an audacious piece of thinking and one that outraged and impressed his contemporaries.
这是一个十分大胆的想法，在给他的同代人留下深刻影响的同时杜尚也激怒了他们。
But then I started to think about my contemporaries and my spirits began to lift.
然而，想想我的同龄人，我又打起了精神。
He and I were almost contemporaries in Cambridge.
剑桥大学时代他和我差不多同届。