1·But they like competence, effectiveness and modernity, too.
不过，他们也亲睐能力、效率与现代性。
2·This is one reason that the medical historian Roy Porter wrote that cancer is “the modern disease par excellence,” and that Mukherjee calls it “the quintessential product of modernity.
医学史家罗伊·波特将其说成是“最卓越的现代病”，慕克吉称其为“现代性最典型的产物”，这就是其中一方面的原因。
3·For Stevens, when modernity takes away God what it does is unveil the poet's Godlike powers, a power to create the world through imagination, imagination which created God in the first place.
在史蒂文斯看来，当“现代性”把上帝请出圣殿时彰显了诗人具有如神一样的威力，这种神力用当初创造上帝的想像力来创造世界。
4·Cities may be the epitome of modernity, but they are inhabited by a creature designed for a pre-agricultural existence.
城市也许是现代性的典范，而它们的居民却是为农业化之前的时代所生的物种。
5·My work investigates issues of urbanity, modernity, progress and the otherworldly.
我的作品主要探讨城市风格、现代性、进步以及超脱尘俗等主题。