nowadays

英 [ˈnaʊədeɪz]

美 [ˈnaʊədeɪz]

adv.  现今; 现在; 目前

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Collins.2 / BNC.4094 / COCA.6788

牛津词典

adv.

• 现今；现在；目前
  at the present time, in contrast with the past
  1. Nowadays most kids prefer watching TV to reading.
     现在大多数孩子都喜欢看电视而不喜欢读书。

柯林斯词典

• ADV 如今;现今
  Nowadaysmeans at the present time, in contrast with the past.
  1. Nowadays it's acceptable for women to be ambitious. But it wasn't then...
     如今，女性胸怀大志也能被接受，但那时候不是这样。
  2. I don't see much of Tony nowadays.
     我现在不经常见到托尼了。

双语例句

• We have to cut our coat according to our cloth. Nowadays there's no margin at all.
  如今都是可着头做帽子，一点富余也不能的。
• I don't see much of Tony nowadays
  我现在见托尼的次数不多。
• The term 'early retirement' is nearly always a euphemism for redundancy nowadays.
  现在“提前退休”几乎就是裁员的委婉说法。
• Nowadays, everyone in the city was very clothes-conscious and fashionable.
  现在城里人很讲究穿而且穿得很时髦。
• Nowadays, such experts are as rare as morning stars.
  如今这样的专家寥若晨星。
• Nowadays people like travelling on foot.
  现在人们喜欢徒步旅行。
• Any earthquake at any distance from a calibrated seismograph is nowadays assigned a magnitude.
  现在对于距一标定过的地震仪任何距离处的任何一个地震，都可用一个震级确定之。
• Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.
  如今很少有人能将友谊维持到成年。
• Few people use writing brushes nowadays.
  如今很少有人用毛笔了。
• You're miles better than most of the performers we see nowadays
  你比当下我们见到的大多数表演者都强多了。