We need to work more cleverly, more creatively and more coherently as a UK Government fully committed to a modern, 21st century Union in the context of a stable and permanent devolution settlement to strengthen the glue that holds our Union together.

我们需要更聪明，更有创造，更有条理，因为英国政府完全致于现代化，21世纪的联盟在稳定和永久的权下放解决的背景下加强了将我们的联盟凝聚在一起的粘合剂。

While still catching-up to men in some spheres of modern life, women appear to be way ahead in at least one undesirable category.

在现代生活中女性就算是在某些领域可以追赶上男性，但至少在一个方面是领先的，尽管是她们不太想要的。

So if you say 'laters', it's a kind of modern colloquialism in a way.

在某种程度上，laters--再见，是个现代口语。

Yes. But we thought we needed something general about woolly mammoths in our introduction, to establish that they were related to our modern elephant, and they lived thousands of years ago in the last ice age.

是的，但是我们觉得我们需要在介绍部分说一些猛犸象的概括性的知识，以此立它们与现今的大象的联系，它们生活在几千年的冰川时代。

Democritus did not have access to modern electronic apparatus.

德谟克里特斯当年并没有现代的电子设备可以利用。

That is a warning for snow that has never been seen since the modern system came into place in Scotland.

这是自苏格兰现代系统投入使用以来首次出现的降雪预警。

We plan to set up a modern system of irrigation.

我们计划立一个现代的灌溉系统。

International interest grew, and in 1894 a French aristocrat called Pierre de Coubertin hosted a congress at the Sorbonne University in Paris in order to suggest a new modern Olympic Games.

随后世界各对奥运会感兴趣的人越来越多。1894年，出身于法国贵族的皮埃尔·德·顾拜旦为了倡导新的现代奥运会在巴黎大学举行了会。

By contrast the recent happy photographs of four generations of the Royal Family together suggest the sort of continuities the frenzy of modern politics can never supply.

与之对比，最近皇室家族四世同堂的温馨家庭合影也象征着一种当代近乎疯狂的政坛所不可企及的家庭感。

Ernest Hemingway is a giant of modern literature.

海明威是现代文学巨匠。

Advanced manufacturing and modern services registered rapid growth.

先进制造业、现代服务业较快增长。

Japan is a truly timeless place where ancient traditions view seamlessly with modern life.

日本的确是一个不受时间影响的方，古代传统的影子在现代生活中随处可见。

A professional company is putting on a show of modern pieces, with electronic music by young composers.

一家专业公司正在举办一场现代乐曲演出，其中包括年轻曲家的电子乐曲。

Umm, sweetie, but I was thinking of a more modern style house. An open concept house, all glass, wood, metal, and concrete.

额，亲爱的，我更想要一个现代风格的房子—一个开放式的概念空间，所需材料全由玻璃，木材，金属以及水泥造。

Modern shipping subsidies are used to build economic heft rather than military might.

现在的航运补贴更多的则是为了加强经济实，而非军事量。

Modern biographers do not invent such stories.

现代传记家并不编造这样的故事。

A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952) comprise a contribution to modern fiction that is far more substantial than Fitzgerald's and that approximates Faulkner's.

《永别了，武器》（1929), 《丧钟为谁 而鸣》（1940)和《老人与海》（ 1952年），加上他出色的 短篇小说故事，对现代小说的贡献远远超过斯科特.菲 茨杰拉德的小说，可以和福克纳相提并论。

NELP library is located in a modern building adjacent to the bookstore.

东北伦敦理学院的图书馆坐落在临近书店的现代化大楼里。

The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, " is overwhelmingly inclined toward communication...It is not simply that one is interrupted; it is that one is actually inclined to interruption" .

小说家兼批评家蒂姆·帕克斯写道：“当代人的心理极其倾向于交流… … 并不仅仅是说你被打扰了，而是你实际上很容易被打扰。

13. What does the passage say is the whole purpose of the modern refrigerator?

13. 这篇短文说现代冰箱的全部目的是做什么？