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发音：[kənˈtɛmpəˌrɛri]
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例句：
- Something contemporary is marked by characteristics of the present period.
- If two things are happening at the same time, then they are contemporary.
- The history book is based on contemporary accounts of the Vietnam war.
- If two people live in the same period of time, we can say that one is the contemporary of another or they are contemporaries.
- The great physicist Issac Newton and the great Chinese emperor of Qing dynasty Kangxi are contemporaries since they both lived in the 17th century.
- Impressed by Leonardo’s use of rocks and landscape features in his paintings, other contemporary artists – like German painter Albrecht Dürer – soon adopted and popularized this new style.
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解释：
- Contemporary可以作为形容词使用，其表示“Things that are contemporary are either occurring at the same time or happening now.” 或者“Things happening, existing, or living during the same period of time”这一含义， 即“现代的/当代的/当时的/同时代的”，与modern/current这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：Kylian Mbappé is considered one of the best football players of his generation and frequently cited as the world’s best contemporary player. （基利安·姆巴佩被认为是他这一代最好的足球运动员之一，经常被认为是世界上最好的当代球员。）/The writer read contemporary American fiction, because he hoped to find a resonance, a shaping of his longings, a sense of the America that he had imagined himself a part of.（这位作家读当代美国小说，因为他希望找到一种共鸣，一种他渴望的塑造，一种他想象自己是其中一部分的美国的感觉。）
- 除了用作形容词使用外，contemporary也可以当作名词使用，表示“Contemporaries are people and things from the same time period” 即“同时代的人/同龄人”，与peer/match构成近义词。使用场景如下：Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries. （彼特拉克和乔叟是同时代人。）/Abraham Lincoln was contemporary with Charles Darwin. （亚伯拉罕·林肯与查尔斯·达尔文同时代。）/People always talk about Wei Dongyi as the genius mathematician, who is very different from most of his contemporaries. （人们总是说韦东奕是天才数学家，他与大多数同时代人大相径庭。）
