| 单词 | modern girl |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmodern girl b. Of a person or (occasionally) something personified: up to date in behaviour, outlook, opinions, etc.; embracing innovation and new ideas; liberal-minded. Esp. in modern girl, modern woman. ΚΠ 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 24 But England, Modern to the last degree, Borrows or makes her own Nobility. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xiii. 75 You..are not a modern woman; have neither wings to your shoulders, nor gad-fly in your cap: You love home. 1804 ‘E. de Acton’ Tale without Title I. 194 Our modern misses; who..look offendedly grave at those freedoms in conversation. 1859 E. C. Gaskell in Fraser's Mag. 59 246/1 What modern young woman, of average ability and education, who is not at least ‘a writer’ in some magazine, or..the author of a book? 1899 H. James Awkward Age xxii. 237 The modern girl, the product of our hard London facts. 1914 G. B. Shaw Fanny's Last Play Induct., in Misalliance 154 I am not, I hope, a modern man in any sense of the word. 1975 A. Osmond Saladin! v. iii. 222 In his company she felt relaxed..and what, alas, could that mean except that she was not, after all, a modern girl? 1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Nov. 64/2 Commentators and critics, most of whom are Muslim as well as modern and secular, see no difficulty in belonging to the Islamic community that is so much a feature of contemporary Egypt. < as lemmas |
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