nowadays
- adv.现今;目前;现在
- n.现在
now 现在;目前的 + -a- + day 日子 + -s 副词后缀
noun
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- the period of time that is happening now;any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech
- that is enough for the present
- he lives in the present with no thought of tomorrow
- Synonym: present
adv
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- in these times
- it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished"- Nancy Mitfor
- we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets
- today almost every home has television
- Synonym: now today
数据来源:WordNet
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We are too busy to entertain much nowadays .
现今我们忙得都不能经常请客了。
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Nowadays the bride almost always wears white , no matter how many times she has been down the aisle .
现今当新娘的差不多总是身披洁白的婚纱,不管她已经当过多少次新娘。
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Nowadays a lot of people work from home .
如今有很多人在家工作。
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Too many people are chasing too few jobs nowadays .
如今有太多的人在角逐寥寥无几的工作职位。
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Nowadays a premature baby has a very good chance of survival .
如今早产儿成活的希望非常大。
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Jobs nowadays are much more insecure than they were ten years ago .
当今的工作比十年前要不稳固得多。
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She is rarely seen in public nowadays .
如今她很少公开露面。
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Five pounds doesn 't buy much nowadays .
如今五英镑买不到多少东西了。
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There isn 't a lot of call for small specialist shops nowadays .
如今对小型专卖店已没有多大需求了。
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Nowadays we say someone is ' speech-impaired ' , not dumb .
现在我们说某个人“有语言障碍”,而不说是哑巴。
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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。
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Children have no respect for their elders nowadays .
现在的孩子对长辈一点儿也不尊敬。
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Older parents seem to be the norm rather than the exception nowadays .
生育较晚的大龄父母在今天似乎成了常事,而不是个例。
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Children are reckoned to be more sophisticated nowadays .
人们认为今天的孩子比过去世故。
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She tended to sleep lightly nowadays .
她如今睡觉容易惊醒。
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Letter-writing is a lost art nowadays .
当今尺牍是一种已消失的技巧。
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I don 't hold with the way they do things nowadays .
我不赞成他们现在的办事方式。
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People live longer nowadays , and they are better educated
当今,人们越来越长寿,受教育程度也提高了。
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I think it 's very rare to have big families nowadays .
我想,如今大家庭已经很少见了。
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Nowadays , a great deal can be done to alleviate back pain .
如今,减轻背部疼痛可以有许多方法。
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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。
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Nowadays that sort of innocence is in short supply .
现在那种天真烂漫很少见。
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I don 't see much of Tony nowadays
我现在见托尼的次数不多。
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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。
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Nowadays , only the two big houses remain roofed .
现在,只有那两座大房子还有屋顶。
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Nowadays there are fewer extrinsic pressures to get married .
现在来自外部的结婚压力少了。
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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。
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Gaelic has been a dying language for many years , though children are nowadays taught it in school
盖尔语多年来一直濒于消亡,尽管如今孩子们还在学校学习这门语言。
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You need at least ten pounds if you go to the cinema nowadays — it 's really bad .
现在看场电影至少要花上10英镑——真是太贵了。
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What perturbs me is that magazine articles are so much shorter nowadays .
让我不安的是现在杂志文章都短多了。