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

他们两人都是谜样的人物，即使对于与他们同时代的人也是如此。

Be pleased to hear a modern tale.

就欣然聆听一个同时代的故事吧。

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

但是和多数住在城市中的同时代的美国人相比，我则过着如僧侣般简朴的生活。

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

哈特与同时代在好莱坞的演员不同，他确实了解西早期拓荒生活的一情况。

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的其他名人。

But Alfred was different from most persons of his time.

可是阿尔弗雷德与同时代的人不同。

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

詹姆斯•吉尔雷，与他同时代的英国讽刺作家，对他的刻画是一副眼镜、一个鼻子和一支十字。

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

与凯瑟琳同时代的路易十五情妇众多，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.

读懂这东西的好处在于我们能够理解韦斯特威克和他同时代人们日常的惊人记忆力。

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

与同时代的其他作家相比，奥威尔的作品在今天仍具有强的现实意义。

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

此外，像同时代的许多人一样，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.

你得学会说基本上和互联网同时代出生的人的语言。

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

他的同时代人钦佩他对跨西洋通信的贡献，这条航线因他的名字而广为人知。

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

跟许多同时代的人一样，手冢治虫深受动画黄金时代的迪士尼作品的影响。

Another of Forbes' contemporaries, Irishman J. Vaughan Thompson, collected and studied marine plankton off the Irish coast in 1828.

与爱德华·福布斯同时代的爱尔兰人 J. 沃恩·汤普森，于 1828 年在爱尔兰海岸附近采集并研究了海洋浮游生物。

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

同时代的人从来没有弄清它的质地配料，这颜料从浓厚坚硬到轻快而富有流动感，也更为活泼。

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

同时代的画作显示了教堂尖塔的倾倒，拱顶的塌陷，高高的脚手倒在一片八七八糟的木板和柱子中。

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

他同时代的人俯首于五光十色的城市生活，梵高却逃离巴黎，留给我们一个不堪重负的都市人的梦。

People who are born at the same time tend to experience life in the same way and have similar outlooks.

同时代出生的人往往以相似的方式经历生活，并持有相近的观念。

So, we could say that F. Scott Fitzgerald and T.S. Eliot were contemporaries.

所以，我们可以说F. 斯科特·菲茨杰拉德和T.S. 艾略特是同时代的人。