- 1同時代的、同時期的（不是「當代的」；當代偏現在這個時代）
Happening or done in the same period of time. Two wars can be contemporaneous; a letter can be contemporaneous with the events it talks about. This is a formal word, much loved by historians. In everyday English people say at the same time. Though actually it is not the same as contemporary. Contemporary is the common word, and it has a second, very common meaning: of now, modern (contemporary art, contemporary music). Contemporaneous does not mean modern. It only means in the same period — and that period is often in the past. Writers pick it when they want to stay exact. You will meet it in history books, law, and serious essays, almost never in casual talk.
組成From Latin contemporāneus (contemporary), from con- (with) + tempus (time) + -aneus (of or belonging to). The picture inside the word is with-the-time.
同家族的字
- contemporaneitythe noun: the fact of belonging to the same period
- contemporaneouslythe adverb built from this adjective
- contemporarysame Latin root — of the same time; also, in everyday English, of now
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
contemporaneousadj/kənˌtɛm.pəˈɹeɪ.ni.əs/
- 1
Existing or created in the same period of time.
- Look in other contemporaneous works to see whether that idea was common then.
- Let AE and ae be two Lines indefinitely extended each way, along which two moving Things or Points may paſs from afar, and at the ſame time may reach the places A and a, B and b, C and c, D and d, &c. and let B be the Point, by its diſtance from which, the Motion of the moving thing or point in AE is eſtimated; so that — BA, BC, BD, BE, ſucceſſively, may be the flowing Quantities, when the moving thing is in the places A, C, D, E. Likewiſe let b be a like point in the other Line. Then will — BA and — ba be contemporaneous Fluents, as alſo BC and bc, BD and bd, BE and be, &c. […] [T]he contemporaneous parts AB and ab, BC and bc, CD and cd, DE and de are of the ſame length in both caſes. And thus in Equations in which theſe Quantities are repreſented, the contemporaneous parts of Quantities are not therefore changed, notwithſtanding their abſolute magnitude may be increaſed or diminiſhed by ſome given Quantity.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。