这种情况在现代还没有出现过。

The situation is unprecedented in modern times.

《牛津词典》

在现代社会里奴仆已近乎不复存在。

Servants are now almost extinct in modern society.

《牛津词典》

团队建设、激励和绩效充斥在现代商业语言中。

Team building, motivation, and performance feature widely in modern business-speak.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Behind this environment are the great social processes of migration and modernization that produced that new urban form, the metropolis.

在这种环境背后是移民和现代化的重大社会进程,所带来的新的城市形式，即大都市。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Some of modern art, it confuses me and I'm kind of like, you know, "What's the point?"

有些现代艺术让我很迷惑，我就想说“它的意义在哪儿？”

学生们的艺术热情 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In English it begins with the late novels of Henry James around 1900, in poetry with Eliot and with Ezra Pound.

在英国现代主义萌芽于1900年左右，体现在亨利·詹姆斯,的后期小说，艾略特和艾兹拉·庞德的诗歌上。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选