One music critic wrote that modern music history had just been made.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

We lost. Loss always, I think, almost always, especially in modern history, has led to longer, deeper, troubled memories.

我们输了,失败一直是,在我看来,几乎一直是,特别是在近代历史上,造成南方人长久深刻而苦痛的记忆的根源

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

So I find it really interesting, particularly the area that's all about modern history.

所以，我觉得它真的很有趣，特别是展示近代史的部分。

一眼看历史 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The museum's exhibits provide a lesson in modern European and American history.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

Yeats's sense of modern history, of the crisis of his moment this is something we can describe and explore next time in "Easter 1916."

叶芝对现代历史，和他所生活时代的危机的感触,我们可从下节课要读的诗,1916年的复活节,还描述和探究“

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Medical professionals, using modern eyes to peer back into history, viewing Simon Bolivar as if he were their patient today.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

So, normally at this point, we do actually start class with a little bit of history from alchemy to modern chemistry, but I decided to skip that this year.

通常在这个时候,我们要从一些从炼金术,到现代化学的历史出发正式开始我们的课程。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Ted Kennedy became one of the longest-serving, most influential senators in modern U.S.history.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

And so what we ended up doing is the last four weeks of class after we had grounded it in the history of the modern university, understood the structure of it, we had the students select topics that they were really interested in.

所以我们最后选择,在最后四周，在我们了解了,现代大学的历史，理解大学的结构之后，我们让学生们选择一些,他们真正感兴趣的话题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Jeff Kingston teaches modern Japanese history at the Temple University branch in Tokyo.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

Why did a Southern strategy in modern American political history re-invent the Republican Party?

为什么在美国政治历史上,南方人重新引入了共和党的概念呢

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now, one of the points I made last week, for those of you who were here, is that one of the themes that ties European history together is the growth of the modern state, of state-making.

上节课来了的人可能记得,我谈到一个观点,现代国家的形成和民族国家的构建,是联系欧洲历史的一个主题

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

I think the sort of skepticism I mean arises from what one might call and what often is called modernity not to be confused with Modernism, an early twentieth-century phenomenon, but the history of modern thought as it usually derives from the generation of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes.

我所说的怀疑主义,产生于我们通常说的现代性,不要与20世纪早期的，现代主义搞混了，现代性是现代思想的历史,始于笛卡尔，莎士比亚和塞万提斯一代。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And there will be a little bit of history in there, but this is mostly modern chemistry and represents the basic properties of matter, and it's basic properties of all matter, including living matter, which was what really interested me, that connection between chemistry and biology.

它们都有一些历史，但都是最现代的化学,代表了物质的最基本的性质，而且是所有物质的最基本性质，包括生物，这个让我很感兴趣，因为它连接着化学和生物学。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选