The use and evaluation of air photographs is a comparatively recent development in earth sciences . 航空象片的使用和解译是地球科学中比较近代的新生事物。
In recent times the most striking exports have been in the vocabulary of lacrosse and hockey . 在近代最突出的外来词是有关长曲棍球和曲棍球运动方面的词汇。
With the advent of modern methods of communication the whole world has been transformed into a single mechanism . 由于近代通信方法的出现，整个世界已转变成为一个统一的机体。
Modern astronomers are accustomed to using large telescopes and other complex instruments to study the sky . 近代的天文学家习惯于使用大型望远镜及其他一些复杂仪器来研究天象。
Only recently have historians devoted themselves to describing the new modes of life to which the city gave rise . 只是到了近代，历史学家才着意记述了城市所带来的新的生活方式。
One trason we know so little about the newspaper is that as it exists today it is a very recent manifestation . 我们对报纸了解得如此之差，原因之一是当今的报纸本来就是近代的事物。
Recent electronic means of pumping using low temperature sorption techniques and getter-ion pumps have been introduced . 现在已经采用了低温吸附技术和吸气离子泵的近代电子抽气设备。
The forerunners of modern science were gradually discarding magical practices in favor of scientific experiment . 近代科学的鼻祖们逐渐摒弃了各种不可思议的习俗，以利于科学实验的发展。
The application of our ideas about turbulence to specifically oceanographical contexts has taken place only fairly recently . 将湍流的概念应用于特定的海洋学领域，这仅仅是很近代的事情。
Of all the civilizations of premodern times, none appeared more advanced, none felt more superior, than that of china . 在近代以前时期的所有文明中，没有一个国家的文明比中国文明更发达，更先进。
