generation

英[ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃn]美[ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃn]

n.一代人，一代，一批，产生；

adj.第…代的；

复数：generations;

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In the moralistic accents of today’s leaders we hear echoes of a previous generation’s hypocrisy.在当今领导人的说教腔调中,我们感到了上一代人的伪善。

The British nation has not risen up in a generation.英国民族并非在一代时期崛起。

As generation gap exists, we must bear in mind that the younger people might not like that idea.因为有代沟的存在, 所以我们必须记住, 年轻人可能不喜欢这个想法。

The biology class studied the generation of fruit flies.生物班的学生研究了果蝇的繁殖。

Steam and water power are used for the generation of electricity.蒸汽和水力可用来发电。

People of my generation all think the same way about this.关于这件事, 我们这代人都有同感。

It falls to our generation to fulfill the great aspirations cherished by countless martyrs in the past.过去无数先烈的远大抱负,要我们这一代去实现。

A chasm separates my generation from my parents’.分歧使我这一代人不同于我父母那一代。

A lie begets a lie till they come to generation.谎言生谎言,谎言传万代。出自：英语谚语

For some people, rap — the music of the hip-hop generation — is just so much noise.对某些人来说，说唱乐——嘻哈一族的音乐——简直就是噪音。

英语六级真题

They catered to the taste of the younger generation.

Failure to address comprehensively the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, however, exposes all generations, present and future, to incalculable risks.

Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.

Addressing differences in the earliest years, it seems, could reduce inequality in the next generation.

Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college? You’ll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying.

Results of USA WEEKEND's Teens & Parents survey reveal a generation of young people who get along well with their parents and approve of the way they're being raised.

It has remained basically unchanged for generations.

It has brought up generations of responsible citizens.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced—not just in this generation but in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

How much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past? A mere generation ago, parentchild relations were described as the generation gap.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

The theory is that smoking should be stripped of any appeal to discourage new generations from starting in the first place.

And it is clearly up to the current generation of leaders from high-emitting nations to decide whether they want to be remembered as climate change tyrants or pioneers.

The major components of our energy systems, such as fuel production, refining, electrical generation and distribution, are costly installation that have lengthy life spans.

First generation college students tend to have much heavier financial burdens than their peers.

A mere generation ago, parent-child relations were described as "the generation gap".

I don't know what will happen to the next generation.

Or do they face more challenges than any previous generation?

So it looks as though self-control is something that in one generation can disadvantage the next generation.

You know, they were often victims of a generation firmly convinced that the woman's place was in the home.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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（尤指经历或观点相同的）一代人，同代人，同辈人

A generation is all the people in a group or country who are of a similar age, especially when they are considered as having the same experiences or attitudes.

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代，一代，一辈（通常认为大约是30年）

A generation is the period of time, usually considered to be about thirty years, that it takes for children to grow up and become adults and have children of their own.

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（机械设备的设计和制造的）代

You can use generation to refer to a stage of development in the design and manufacture of machines or equipment.

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ADJ

（表示家庭成员拥有某国国籍的时间长短情况）第…代的

Generation is used to indicate how long members of your family have had a particular nationality. For example, second generation means that you were born in the country you live in, but your parents were not.

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（能源的）产生

Generation is also the production of a form of energy or power from fuel or another source of power such as water.

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英汉词典释义

n.

同时代的人, 一代人, 一代，同代人，同辈人

产生, 发生

代，一代，一辈（通常认为大约 30 年）

（家史中的）一代，一辈

一批，一届（从事特定活动的同龄人）

（产品发展，尤指技术方面的）代

（尤指电、热等的）产生

（动植物等的）繁殖，生殖，繁育

英英词典释义

Noun

1. all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

2. group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

3. the normal time between successive generations;

4. a stage of technological development or innovation;

5. a coming into being

6. the production of heat or electricity;

7. the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

行业词典

动物学： ［世］代；

医学： 生殖：生殖行为，生殖过程；世代，一代：由来自共同远祖的历代祖先中辈数相同的子代全体所组成的层次，或家系图中位于同一代的全部个体；

物理学： 代；夸克和轻子的。；

生态学： 世代；具有共同祖先并在系谱上处于同一等级水平的一群生物个体。；

遗传学： 世代；有世代交替的生物体从一个生殖期到下一个生殖期为一个世代。；