He accepts the western cultural current open-mindedly and walks at the edge between tradition and modernity.

他开明地接受西方文化潮流，走在传统与现代之间的边缘。

We are all modernity-snobs now.

现在我们全都成了新潮势利者了。

They oppose modernity.

他们反对现代。

It is a very superficial part of modernity.

那是很肤浅的现代性。

Modernity is no longer self-evidently here.

这里已经不再具有不言而喻的现代性。

But they like competence, effectiveness and modernity, too.

不过，他们也亲睐能力、效率与现代性。

With a taste of modernity, they can seem much like the rest of us.

怀着现代性的味觉，他们可能好象很象其余的我们中。

My work investigates issues of urbanity, modernity, progress and the otherworldly.

我的作品主要探讨城市风格、现代性、进步以及超脱尘俗等主题。

He refused to exhibit with them in order to pursue his own move towards modernity.

为了追求自己的新式画风，马内甚至拒绝将自己的作品与这些人的作品一起展出。

But one of the benefits of modernity is our ability to spot trends and predict results.

而是现代的一个好处是我们有能力看清趋势，预测结果。

Bangkok is a tropical metropolis where the traditional East meets the modernity of the West.

曼谷市一个热带大都会，这里传统的东方与现代的西方相互融合。

In the ruthless course of modernity, our approach to nature has been one of extraction and use.

在残酷的现代社会中，我们对大自然一直都是索取与使用。

I, too, belonged to an inbred and wealthy men's club cloistered behind walls and disdaining modernity.

我也曾经接触过一个内部通婚的富人俱乐部，他们与世隔绝并且对现代性不屑一顾。

People are interested in money and modernity and Western things, so our own culture has lost something.

人们对金钱、现代和西方的东西感兴趣，而冷落了我们自己的文化。

Photo: A woman of Southern Ethiopia’s Mursi tribe holds two instruments of modernity, an AK-47 and an iPod.

照片：埃塞俄比亚南部Mursi部落的一名妇女手持两件新潮物品：AK-47和iPod。

Sleek designs are found throughout the house creating a harmony between efficiency, modernity and simplicity.

光滑设计在屋里随处可见，创造了能效，现代和简约的和谐。

Cities may be the epitome of modernity, but they are inhabited by a creature designed for a pre-agricultural existence.

城市也许是现代性的典范，而它们的居民却是为农业化之前的时代所生的物种。

In one, a cloud-wrapped mountain rises dramatically from a broad stretch of river - but modernity is never far away.

其中有一张，烟雾缭绕的高山耸立在绵延的河流中——不过，在不远处便就现代的东西了。

So what should we make of the evidence from the mummies, and do they justify laying the blame for cancer firmly on modernity?

那么我们该如何理解来自对木乃伊研究的证据，这些证据是否又足以将癌症归罪于现代社会呢？

The tiny Hindu island of Bali is one of the world’s few remaining societies where modernity and tradition coexist in harmony.

这个印度小岛，是世界上仅剩的几个现代与传统完美结合的社会之一。

He viewed capitalist society as awashwith fantasy and fetishism, myth and idolatry, however much it prided itself on its modernity.

他把资本家社会看作是幻想和拜物教，神话和偶像崇拜的一次冲洗，无论它多么为其现代的东西而引以为豪。

Nor is it conceivable in this modern world that a whole country could wall itself off from modernity, even if the majority wanted to do so.

在现今的世界上，即使在国内受到了多数人的支持，要把一个国家完全与现代社会隔绝开来也是绝无可能的。

Shahabpur, a village on the Gangetic plain, is caste-addled and somehow cohesive. But modernity, fast encroaching, is changing its ancient ways.

沙哈普尔，恒河平原上的一个村子，种姓错综复杂又有某种关联。但是现代性的东西正以快速蚕食的方式改变着其古老格局。

Liberty doesn't have their own makeup line, so I wanted to partner on a project that spoke to both the brand's modernity and global authority.

考虑到Liberty没有自己的化妆品系列，所以我希望双方能够合作打造一个项目，通过该项目展现双方品牌的现代感和全球权威地位。我想M。

OBSERVED at a distance, traditional societies hold a great fascination for people who are raised in the secure world of middle-class modernity.

远观，传统社会对于那些成长于现代中产阶级和平年代的人极具魅力。

It is a research-oriented comprehensive university with a mission to combine tradition with modernity and bring together China and the West.//For

中大是一所研究型综合大学，以“结合传统与现代，融汇中国与西方”为创校使命。