英 [ˈmɒdənɪzəm] 美 [ˈmɑːdərnɪzəm]
n. 现代主义；现代思想；现代作风
复数modernisms
modernism /ˈmɒdəˌnɪzəm/ TEM4
→see alsopostmodernism
genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
the quality of being current or of the present
同义词： modernity / modernness / contemporaneity / contemporaneousness
practices typical of contemporary life or thought
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Modernism can be viewed as a Renaissance for women literature.
现代主义对女性文学无异于一次文艺复兴。
参考来源镜与空
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2. The predicament of modernism movement: art is parting from life.
2，现代主义运动的困境：艺术与生活的距离越来越远。
参考来源精英艺术：神的诞生与隐退
现代主义
很多读者对MOD's这个造型不是很熟悉，其实Mod是现代主义（Modernist）的缩写，MOD's来自英国上世纪60年代，MOD's精彩之处在于把英伦传统的绅士文化，与休闲文化相结合，极富幽雅风味。
现代派
现代
现代性
modern 现代人；有思想的人
modernization 现代化
modernity 现代性；现代的东西；新式
modernisation 现代化（等于modernization）
modernist 现代主义者；现代主义艺术家
modernized 使现代化（modernize的过去分词）
现代主义；现代思想；现代作风
He was forcing the state to enthrone a particular brand of modernism.
他力推政府要尊崇那一套特定走向的现代化。
These by no means add up to modernism.
这些并不是现代主义的附加意义。
And modernism is all about verticality, from a certain Angle.
现代主义是从固定角度来看是直立的。
The other way it shares an ambition of modernism is precisely in that effort to communicate experience, consciousness.
它与现代主义追求的另一个共同点,正体现在经验和意识的交流上。
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So, now, here's just a list for you: eight features of literary modernism that are all important to Nabokov.
现在我给大家一张列表,上面列举了八项对纳博科夫非常重要的文学现代主义的特征。
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Another key event in the making of modernism is the great migration of African-Americans from the rural south to the urban north.
现代创作的另一个重要事件,是非裔美籍从南部乡下,往城市化的北部的大移民。
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MoMA presented the once derided image as the foundation stone of Modernism and turned it into an icon.
"It's clean, straightforward modernism, " says Scheerer of Thomas's design, which absorbs visitors with an affable hospitality.
Over the past generation, some have questioned the tenets and viability of architectural modernism.
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