post-modern
['p?ust'm?d?n]
- adj. 后現(xiàn)代主義的；后現(xiàn)代派的
低頻詞
英文詞源
- post-modern (adj.)
- also post-modern, post modern, by 1919, in frequent use from 1949, from post- + modern.
But it has been only during the later decades of the modern era -- during that time interval that might fairly be called the post-modern era -- that this mechanistic conception of things has begun seriously to affect the current system of knowledge and belief; and it has not hitherto seriously taken effect except in technology and in the material sciences. [Thorstein Veblen, "The Vested Interests and the Common Man," 1919]
Of architecture from 1940s; specific sense in the arts emerged 1960s (see postmodernism).
So much for the misapplied theory which has helped set the artist's nerves a-quiver and incited him to the extremes of post modern art, literary and other. [Wilson Follett, "Literature and Bad Nerves," "Harper's," June 1921]
雙語例句
- 1. We post up a set of rules for the house.
- 我們張貼了一份房屋生活守則。
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- 2. He flipped through the post without opening any of it.
- 他飛快地翻了一下郵件，但一封也沒有打開。
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- 3. Now look yonder, just beyond the wooden post there.
- 看那邊，就在木頭柱子的旁邊。
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- 4. He really was one of the finest boxers in post-war Britain.
- 他確實(shí)是戰(zhàn)后英國(guó)最優(yōu)秀的拳擊手之一。
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- 5. The pilot wisely decided to return to Farnborough post haste.
- 飛行員明智地決定盡快返回法恩伯勒。
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