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1 now

2 at present

3 at the moment

4 modern

5 current

6 nowadays

1 two

2 both

3 some

4 a few

5 tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jīn] (old)

1 modern times

2 modern age

3 modern era

1 the not-very-distant past

2 modern times, excluding recent decades

3 (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919)

4 capitalist times (pre-1949)

1 current

2 today's

3 modern

4 present

5 to be facing (us)

1 Daoist immortal

2 supernatural entity

3 (in modern fiction) fairy, elf, leprechaun etc

4 fig. lighthearted person

1 Zhongdu, capital of China during the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), modern day Beijing

1 Dadu, capital of China during the Yuan Dynasty (1280-1368), modern day Beijing

1 (old) unprincipled

2 incorrect

3 (modern) unnatural

4 against reason

5 incredible

1 modern man

2 Homo sapiens

1 modern

2 up-to-date

1 falling and rising tone

2 third tone in modern Mandarin

1 (in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age

2 (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard

3 (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc)

1 (in former times) upper, middle and lower army

2 army of right, center and left

3 (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force

1 falling tone

2 fourth tone in modern Mandarin

1 department of foreign languages

2 modern languages (college department)

1 modern people

1 old: to reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word

2 to blow hot and cold

3 to contradict oneself

4 inconsistent

1 contemporary

2 modern person

3 close friend

4 associate

5 intimate

1 Wang Li (1900-1986), one of the pioneers of modern Chinese linguistics