Like most of my contemporaries, I grew up in a vastly different world.

像我同时代的大多数人一样，我在一个非常不同的世界里长大。

We would think that Milton's contemporaries might be aghast that such a sympathetic portrait of Satan could be used at the beginning of the poem.

我们会认为，与弥尔顿的同时代人，可能会被这首诗的开头所使用的对撒旦同情的描述所震惊。

She and I were contemporaries at college.

她和我在大学是同学。

I was hungry to be heard by my contemporaries.

我渴望被同龄人所倾听。

He was celebrated amid his contemporaries.

他在他的同代人中名声显赫。