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词汇 drag sb into the 20th/21st century
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idiomdrag sb into the 20th/21st century BrEBrE(also drag sth into the 20th/21st century)modern to try to make people more modern in their ideas, methods, or equipment:It's going to be a full-time job to drag Europe into the twenty-first century.You can't help noticing that all attempts to drag the Royal Family into the 20th century have failed so far.
Note You may hear people talking about dragging someone into a time that has already passed, such as the 1960s, 70s etc, in order to show that they are very old-fashioned and you want to make them at least a bit more modernPerhaps it's time that we dragged this newspaper into the 1960s.
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