Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

在他去世之前，新闻业的品味早已改变很长时间，而且他所擅长的措词华丽的维多利亚爱德华时期的散文风格对后现代的读者没有什么用处。

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

这也解释为什么近年来邮政署屡次图改革立法，却都以失败而告终，使邮政署到不延迟至关重要的现代化进程就无法支付账单的地步。

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，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。

We plan to set up a modern system of irrigation.

我们计划建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.

随后世界各地对奥运感兴趣的人越来越多。1894年，出身于法国贵族的皮埃尔·德·顾拜旦为倡导新的现代奥运在巴黎大学举行。

" Less is more, " right, these are the aphorisms of modernism.

“少即是多，“对，这些是现代主义的格言。

In some ways, Pyongyang resembles many other cities, has an increasingly modern skyline.

从某种意义上来说，平壤和其他的城市无异，都是现代化的都市。

Modern ingenuity has changed this. Either Man will abolish war, or war will abolish Man.

现代人的智慧已经改变这一切。要么人类废除战争，要么战争毁掉人类。

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，金属以及水泥建造。

These new innovations paved the way for the modern traffic light that we know today.

这一项创举也为我们如今所知的现代交通信号灯打下基础。

The railways are about to embark on a major programme of modernization.

铁路部门将要开始一项大型的现代化规划。

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

东北伦敦理工学院的图书馆坐落在临近书店的现代化大楼里。

So, a really modern building is ultra-modern.

所以，真正现代的建筑就是超现代建筑。

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？

The founder of modern economics was a Scottish philosopher named Adam Smith.

现代经济学的创始人是苏格兰哲学家亚当·斯密（Adam Smith）。

In the hustle and bustle of modern-day life, people seldom stop to enjoy the beauty of nature.

在繁忙扰攘的现代生活中，人们很少停下来欣赏大自然之美。

The Four Modernization Plan, you can still see tenets of that today because you have emphasis on agriculture, industry, national defense and science and technology.

今天仍然可以看到四个现代化的宗旨理念，因为它强调工业现代化、农业现代化、国防现代化、科学技术现代化。

Art museums like The Guggenheim, The Met and MoMA are especially good.

像古根海姆、大都、现代艺术这样的艺术博物馆尤其出色。

And they want to see their economies modernized, opened up… .

他们希望看到他们的经济现代化，开放… … 。

An antidote to the triviality of modern life.

一幅解决现代生活琐碎的良剂。