环境工程专业资质:请问如何用英语表达“现代”与“近代”

区别不大:
现代 : [ xiàn dài ]
1. modern times
2. modern age
3. modern era

Examples:
1. 失业问题是现代的主要问题.
Unemployment is one of the major problems of modern times.
2. 工业现代化分20年逐步实现.
The modernization of the industry was phased over a 20-year period.
3. 现代神话现代被浪漫化或普遍流行的神话
A romanticized or popularized myth of modern times.
4. 现代的人想法不同。
People today think differently.
5. 学习英语和德语等现代语言比学习拉丁语更为有用。
It's more useful to learn modern languages, such as English and German, than Latin.

近代modern times
Examples:
1. 去年他进了大学研读近代史。
He came up last year to read Modern History.
2. 意大利的近代史始于一八六年，从那一年起这个国家得到了统一。
The modern history of Italy begins in1860, when the country became united.
3. 近代研究已使这个问题大为明朗化了。
Modern investigations have thrown great light on this question.

可以是：
现代－modern years
近代－recent years