modern languages

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A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages.
最后,我们达成了一个回想起来双方都不甚满意的妥协：我改学现代语言。
Most modern languages provide some way you can extend built-in constructs so you can code your I/O in a more consistent and powerful manner.
大多数现代语言都提供了某种扩展内置构造的方法，因此可以用更一致和功能更强大的方式来编码 I/O。
However, modern languages on the JVM have other facilities, such as open classes, which allow you to reopen existing classes and add new methods to them without requiring subclassing.
但是，基于 JVM 的现代语言提供了一些额外的便利性，比如说开放类，它允许您重新打开已有类并向它们添加新的方法，而不需要子类化过程。

More modern languages as we'll see toward the tail end of the semester are a little more generous with some of these details.
才有了我们今天看到的众多,形形色色，简洁大方的,编程语言。
哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In order to make room for the new courses, 14-year-olds will no longer be required to learn modern languages.
ECONOMIST: Education

languages that are spoken at the present time, especially European languages such as French, German, and Spanish

Modern languages refers to the modern European languages, for example French, German, and Russian, which are studied at school or college.