中文翻译与英英解释 | n.
1.代〔约30年〕，世代，时代；同时代的人。
2.一代[一世]。
3.生殖，生育；发生，产生。
4.【数学】(面、体、线的)形成。
5.完善化阶段，完善化方案，完善化的模型；发展阶段。
短语和例子
a generation ago 约三十年前。 alternation of generations 【生物学】世代交替。 the present generation现代；现代人。 the last [past] generation上一代。 the first generation第一代 (the first generation university students 第一代大学生). future generations 后代。 the beat generation“垮掉的一代”〔美国青年中的颓废派〕。 the rising [coming] generation下一代。 the younger [older] generation年轻[年老]的一代。 for generations 一连好几代，祖祖辈辈。 generation after generation ＝ from generation to generation 世世代代。
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| the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
同义词：multiplication, propagation,
| | the production of heat or electricity; "dams were built for the generation of electricity"
| | a coming into being
同义词：genesis,
| | group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
| | all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
同义词：coevals, contemporaries,
| | the normal time between successive generations; "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
| | a stage of technological development or innovation; "the third generation of computers"
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| Generation (from the Latin generāre, meaning "to beget"), also known as procreation in biological sciences, is the act of producing offspring. In kinship terminology, it is a structural term designating the parent-child relationship. |
例句与用法 | 1. | His has been a peasant familly for generations .
他家几辈子都是农民。
| | 2. | My people have lived here for generations .
我家世世代代都是住在这里。
| | 3. | A smaller generation sacrifices to excitement .
下一代成了冲动的牺牲品。
| | 4. | It was copied from the first generation tape .
这是按原版磁带复制过来的。
| | 5. | He was the first of a new generation .
他是新一代的奠基者。
| | 6. | This generation of americans has already had enough .
这一代的美国人已经受够了。
| | 7. | Many representatives of the older generation were there .
老一辈的各类人都在那里。
| | 8. | To people of our generation kennedy was a god .
对我们这一代人来说，肯尼迪是偶像。
| | 9. | A judgmental infelicity plagued past generations .
这种不恰当的看法曾困扰了几代人。
| | 10. | It sharpened the poetic sensibility of two generations .
它提高了两代人对诗的敏感力。
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