Both Jesus and Socrates were enigmatic personalities, also to their contemporaries.

他们两人都是谜样人物，即使对于他们同时代人也是如此。

Be pleased to hear a modern tale.

那就欣然聆听一个同时代故事吧。

But compared to most of my urban American contemporaries, I live a monastically simple life.

但是和大多数住在城市中同时代美国人相比，我则过着如僧侣般简朴。

Unlike most of his contemporaries in Hollywood, Hart actually knew something of the old West.

哈特大部分同时代在好莱坞演员不同，他确实了解西部早期拓荒一些情况。

Police launched Operation Yewtree, an investigation into Savile and other celebrities from the same era.

警方启动“杉树行动”，调查萨维尔及同时代其他名人。

But Alfred was different from most persons of his time.

可是阿尔弗雷德同时代大部分人不同。

James Gillray, a contemporary British satirist, drew him with spectacles, a big nose and a cross.

詹姆斯•吉尔雷，他同时代英国讽刺作家，对他刻画是一副眼镜、一个大鼻子和一支十字架。

Catherine's contemporary, Louis XV, had so many mistresses he could give Prince a run for his money.

瑟琳同时代路易十五情妇众多，足以给“王子”（指波将金）构成威胁。

The reward is an understanding of the daily feats of memory that he and his contemporaries performed.

读懂这些东西好处在于我们能够理解韦斯特威克和他同时代人们日常惊人记忆力。

Perhaps more so than any other writer of his era, Orwell's work is still powerfully relevant today.

同时代其他作家相比，奥威尔作品在今天仍具有强大现实意义。

Plus, like many of his contemporaries, he figured we would all move over to nuclear power, anyway.

此外，像同时代许多人一样，他认为无论如何，我们终会转向使用核能。

You need to start speaking the language of those people who have been basically born with the internet.

你得学会说那些基本上和互联网同时代出人语言。

His contemporaries admired him for the contribution to transatlantic communication by the line popularly called by his name.

他同时代人钦佩他对跨大西洋通信贡献，这条航线因他名字而广为人知。

Tezuka was greatly influenced by Disney's work during the golden age of animation, as well many of Tezuka's contemporaries.

跟许多同时代人一样，手冢治虫深受动画黄金时代迪士尼作品影响。

No one in his century ever explored its texture, from thick and crusty to thin and fluid, more lovingly.

同时代人从来没有弄清它质地配料，这些颜料从浓厚坚硬到轻快而富有流动感，也更为泼。

My understanding is he had a smaller hand than some of the performers like Rachmaninoff who were his contemporaries.

据我所知，他手比他同时代一些演奏家（比如拉赫玛尼诺夫）手要小。

Contemporary illustrations show cathedral spires collapsing, vaults caving in, high scaffolding keeling over in a chaos of planks and poles.

同时代画作显示了大教堂尖塔倾倒，拱顶塌陷，高高脚手架倒在一片八七八糟木板和柱子中。

While his contemporaries succumb to the city’s bright lights, Van Gogh flees Paris and gives us a stressed-out urbanite’s dream.

他同时代人俯首于五光十色城市，梵高却逃离巴黎，留给我们一个不堪重负都市人梦。

But perhaps the greatest power these creatures had was their appeal to Lovecraft’s contemporaries.

但也许这些物拥有最大力量在于它们对洛夫克拉夫特同时代人吸引力。

Madame Cornoiller possessed one striking advantage over her contemporaries.

同时代人相比，科诺伊尔夫人拥有一项显着优势。