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近gan6代doi6

gan6 doi6jìn dài

English

  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)
  5. modern times; contemporary

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 接近現時嘅歷史時代,各國定義唔同,例如中國將近代史定義為1840年第一次鴉片戰爭至1949年中華人民共和國成立之間嘅歷史

Examples

  • 近代史

    contemporary history

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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