1. At present, currently, lately, recently, nowadays, these years, in the past several decades, over the last several years

　　目前、當(dāng)前、近來、現(xiàn)今、這些年來、過去幾年來

　　2. At the turn of the century

　　(在)世紀(jì)初、世紀(jì)末、世紀(jì)之交

　　3. Thanks to China’s reform and opening-up policy...... has witnessed great economic and social progress in the past two decades.

　　多虧中國的改革開放政策……在過去20年里目睹了巨大的社會經(jīng)濟(jì)進(jìn)步。

　　4. With the (rapid, marked, amazing, eye-catching, remarkable, fantastic) development/ progress/ growth/ advance/ improvement of economy/ society/ industry/ living standard, great changes have taken place in...

　　隨著經(jīng)濟(jì)、社會、工業(yè)、生活水平(快速、顯著、驚人、令人矚目的)發(fā)展、進(jìn)步、增長、提高……發(fā)生了巨大的變化

　　5. At the mercy of the ever-acelerated updating of science and technology, there are rapid changes in all aspects of our everyday lives.

　　受益于迅猛發(fā)展的現(xiàn)代科學(xué)技術(shù)，我們?nèi)粘Ｉ�活的方方面面都發(fā)生了巨大變化

　　6. With the arrival/ advent of the invention of .../ the information age/ the 21st century/ the economy age

　　隨著……的發(fā)明、信息時代、經(jīng)濟(jì)時代的到來

　　7. We are now entering a brandnewera. The 21st century is a time of advanced scientific and technological knowledge.

　　我們正在靜如一個嶄新的時代，21世紀(jì)是科技知識的時代

　　8. The human race has entered a completely new stage in its history. We have just crossed the threshold of the 21st century and the curtain of the new millennium is slowly rising.

　　人類已進(jìn)入了歷史上的一個全新階段。我們剛剛跨入21世紀(jì)的門檻，新千年的帷幕正在徐徐升起。

　　9. We are blessed with new opportunities and faced with new challenges.

　　我們被賦予新的機(jī)會，并且面臨著新的挑戰(zhàn)。

　　10. With the increasingly more rapid economic globalization and urbanization, more problems are brought to our attention.

　　隨著日益迅速的經(jīng)濟(jì)全球化和城市化，更多的問題受到我們的關(guān)注。