We have to interpret his words in a modern light.

我们得用现代的眼光来解释他的话。

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This floor lamp is a magnificent modern light and it is suited for any quiet place of your home.

这款立灯绝对是现代高雅空间的绝佳灯具。

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In the bathroom, the architect installed simple, modern light fixtures and walls sheathed in cement plaster.

浴室中，建筑师安置了简约、现代的家具，墙面也设置了水泥保护套。

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"We hope to shine the light brightly on the scope and scale of modern slavery so all governments can see where progress has been made and where more is needed,"

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Do you think I should neck or not? I shall not enter the kingdom of heaven anyway so I don't see what difference it makes.'" And then she writes back, Mary Brittle: "Dear Sabbath: Light necking is acceptable, but I think your real problem is one of adjustment to the modern world.

你认为我是该做还是不该做，我反正都上不了天堂了,因此，我认为做不做都无所谓，之后她给她回信了，玛丽-巴瑞特，亲爱的萨巴斯，你的做法是可接受的，但我认为,你真正的问题是无法融入现代社会。

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But Milton portrays himself as a laborer here, a poet who by labor and intense study actually has to work to produce the great poem. Milton's divine vocation, his calling, seems in this light to be something like a vocation in the modern sense: it's a job that exacts work or labor.

但弥尔顿把他自己描绘成一个工人,一个只能通过努力学习来创作出,伟大诗歌的诗人，弥尔顿的神圣的使命，他的天职，就此而论就像现代意义上的职业了：,一份要求工作和劳动的职业。

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The intimate lobby showcases shelves of books amid modern light fixtures and a flickering fireplace where guests can gather for impromptu meetings.

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MacCready fielded a team, this time with an entry called the Bionic Bat, which featured a design much closer to modern light aircraft, incorporating a rear propeller and a more robust pilot gondola.

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The trains come down the line quickly and abruptly every minute or so and they look like a more modern Docklands Light Railway (DLR) train.

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