Pertaining to the present time; recent.

现代的；近代的。

Involving recent techniques, methods, or ideas; up-to-date.

新技术、方法、思想的；新式的；时髦的。

A person of recent and present times; also, one who is up-to-date in his views or manners.

(常用复数)现代人；思想、行为进步的人。

Modern refers to the present period in contrast with times quite remote.

Modern 指现代，以别于远代而言：

That is new which has not existed before or long.

New 指以前不存在，或存在不久：

Recent is applied to things that have happened in the near past.

Recent 指事物发生不久者：

Late is like recent in applying to that just past.

Late 与 recent 同，亦指刚发生之事物：

But it is esp. used in the sense of formerly but not now.

但 late 尤指从前，而非现在之意：

And late also in the sense of lately deceased.

late 亦指新近死亡者而言：