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单词 modern history
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Definition of modern history in English:

modern history

noun
mass noun
  • History up to the present day, from some arbitrary point taken to represent the end of the Middle Ages. In some contexts it may be contrasted with ‘ancient’ rather than ‘medieval’ history, and start (for example) from the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was the president of the Cambridge Union and was a lecturer in modern history at Southampton University until his recent retirement.
    • The influence of Turkey's modern history on the Turkish present is evident here.
    • Many of these essays draw on a case study approach and often integrate medieval and modern history.
    • This administration has the greatest feeding frenzy in modern history with special interests.
    • Costs are rising faster than in any other time in modern history.
    • How do you define one of the most powerful black women in modern history?
    • He knew that the enthusiasm of the humanists had been disproved by modern history, which remorselessly dehumanised the world.
    • Another common theme was a complete ignorance of modern history.
    • She has been offered a place to study politics and modern history at Oxford.
    • It's one that has been used all over the world and throughout modern history.
    • In our modern history, there may have been no time when the law has been so disdained and violated as it is today.
    • Will Thai schoolchildren ever get to learn the truth about a defining moment in their country's modern history?
    • In modern history, Presidents have come mainly from the ranks of governors.
    • I was initially fired up about history at school, but it was through the study of ancient not modern history.
    • She started night classes in 1997 and quickly developed a taste for medieval and early modern history.
    • Intelligent, witty and wilful, she went to Oxford where she took a first in modern history.
    • It's an aesthetic novel; a philosophical and a sociological study in modern history.
    • But to be honest, even after getting a degree in modern history, I still had a passion for just one thing: cooking.
    • This is a book that could easily be read by high school students studying modern history.
    • It created one of the greatest humanitarian crises in modern history.
 
 

Definition of modern history in US English:

modern history

nounˈˌmädərn ˈhist(ə)rē
  • History up to the present day, from some arbitrary point taken to represent the end of the Middle Ages. In some contexts it may be contrasted with “ancient” rather than “medieval” history, and start, e.g., from the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It created one of the greatest humanitarian crises in modern history.
    • Will Thai schoolchildren ever get to learn the truth about a defining moment in their country's modern history?
    • How do you define one of the most powerful black women in modern history?
    • It's an aesthetic novel; a philosophical and a sociological study in modern history.
    • He knew that the enthusiasm of the humanists had been disproved by modern history, which remorselessly dehumanised the world.
    • Intelligent, witty and wilful, she went to Oxford where she took a first in modern history.
    • I was initially fired up about history at school, but it was through the study of ancient not modern history.
    • Many of these essays draw on a case study approach and often integrate medieval and modern history.
    • Costs are rising faster than in any other time in modern history.
    • Another common theme was a complete ignorance of modern history.
    • This is a book that could easily be read by high school students studying modern history.
    • In modern history, Presidents have come mainly from the ranks of governors.
    • The influence of Turkey's modern history on the Turkish present is evident here.
    • She started night classes in 1997 and quickly developed a taste for medieval and early modern history.
    • He was the president of the Cambridge Union and was a lecturer in modern history at Southampton University until his recent retirement.
    • She has been offered a place to study politics and modern history at Oxford.
    • This administration has the greatest feeding frenzy in modern history with special interests.
    • In our modern history, there may have been no time when the law has been so disdained and violated as it is today.
    • It's one that has been used all over the world and throughout modern history.
    • But to be honest, even after getting a degree in modern history, I still had a passion for just one thing: cooking.
 
 
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