nowadays

英 [ˈnaʊədeɪz]

美 [ˈnaʊədeɪz]

adv.  现今; 现在; 目前

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牛津词典

adv.

• 现今；现在；目前
  at the present time, in contrast with the past
  1. Nowadays most kids prefer watching TV to reading.
     现在大多数孩子都喜欢看电视而不喜欢读书。

柯林斯词典

• ADV 如今;现今
  Nowadaysmeans at the present time, in contrast with the past.
  1. Nowadays it's acceptable for women to be ambitious. But it wasn't then...
     如今，女性胸怀大志也能被接受，但那时候不是这样。
  2. I don't see much of Tony nowadays.
     我现在不经常见到托尼了。

双语例句

• Nowadays, only the two big houses remain roofed.
  现在，只有那两座大房子还有屋顶。
• What perturbs me is that magazine articles are so much shorter nowadays.
  让我不安的是现在杂志文章都短多了。
• We have to cut our coat according to our cloth. Nowadays there's no margin at all.
  如今都是可着头做帽子，一点富余也不能的。
• The term 'early retirement' is nearly always a euphemism for redundancy nowadays.
  现在“提前退休”几乎就是裁员的委婉说法。
• Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.
  如今很少有人能将友谊维持到成年。
• You need at least ten pounds if you go to the cinema nowadays — it's really bad.
  现在看场电影至少要花上10英镑——真是太贵了。
• Nowadays there are fewer extrinsic pressures to get married.
  现在来自外部的结婚压力少了。
• Gaelic has been a dying language for many years, though children are nowadays taught it in school
  盖尔语多年来一直濒于消亡，尽管如今孩子们还在学校学习这门语言。
• We are too busy to entertain much nowadays.
  现今我们忙得都不能经常请客了。
• You're miles better than most of the performers we see nowadays
  你比当下我们见到的大多数表演者都强多了。