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英语单词

post-modern是什么意思

post-modern

['pəust'mɔdən]
  • adj. 后现代主义的;后现代派的

英文词源


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]



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]
Of architecture from 1940s; specific sense in the arts emerged 1960s (see postmodernism).

双语例句


1. We post up a set of rules for the house.
我们张贴了一份房屋生活守则。

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2. He flipped through the post without opening any of it.
他飞快地翻了一下邮件,但一封也没有打开。

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3. Now look yonder, just beyond the wooden post there.
看那边,就在木头柱子的旁边。

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4. He really was one of the finest boxers in post-war Britain.
他确实是战后英国最优秀的拳击手之一。

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5. The pilot wisely decided to return to Farnborough post haste.
飞行员明智地决定尽快返回法恩伯勒。

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