post-modern

['pəust'mɔdən]

低频词

post-modern (adj.): also post-modern, post modern, by 1919, in frequent use from 1949, from post- + modern.
But it has been only during the later decades of the modern era -- during that time interval that might fairly be called the post-modern era -- that this mechanistic conception of things has begun seriously to affect the current system of knowledge and belief; and it has not hitherto seriously taken effect except in technology and in the material sciences. [Thorstein Veblen, "The Vested Interests and the Common Man," 1919]

So much for the misapplied theory which has helped set the artist's nerves a-quiver and incited him to the extremes of post modern art, literary and other. [Wilson Follett, "Literature and Bad Nerves," "Harper's," June 1921]
Of architecture from 1940s; specific sense in the arts emerged 1960s (see postmodernism).

2. He flipped through the post without opening any of it.: 他飞快地翻了一下邮件，但一封也没有打开。

4. He really was one of the finest boxers in post-war Britain.: 他确实是战后英国最优秀的拳击手之一。

5. The pilot wisely decided to return to Farnborough post haste.: 飞行员明智地决定尽快返回法恩伯勒。