generation n. 1.代〔約30年〕,世代,時代;同時代的人。 2.一代[一世]。 3.生殖,生育;發生,產生。 4.【數學】(面、體、線的)形成。 5.完善化階段,完善化方案,完善化的模型;發展階段。 a generation ago 約三十年前。 alternation of generations 【生物學】世代交替。 the present generation現代;現代人。 the last [past] generation上一代。 the first generation第一代 (the first generation university students 第一代大學生). future generations 后代。 the beat generation“垮掉的一代”〔美國青年中的頹廢派〕。 the rising [coming] generation下一代。 the younger [older] generation年輕[年老]的一代。 for generations 一連好幾代,祖祖輩輩。 generation after generation = from generation to generation 世世代代。
Problems that were very appealing a generation ago may have been resolved . 在一代人以前非常熱門的問題可能已被解決。
A generation ago , risk was concentrated in the banking industry 幾十年前,風險都集中在銀行業。
A generation ago , china disputed most of its borders 在上一代以前,中國與大多數接壤國家存有領土爭議。
A generation ago , few outsiders had ever heard of lake lugu or the mosuo 在上一代,少有外地人聽說過瀘沽湖或摩梭族。
" men in their twenties or thirties are interacting with women on equal terms much more so than a generation ago 馬什說: “ 20多歲或30多歲的男性和女性之間平等的相互影響要比上一代人頻繁得多。
Other colleges , though , are trying to drum up excitement by offering perks that would have been unheard of a generation ago 其他大學則盡可能提供一些在上一代人中聞所未聞的條件來引起學生們的興趣。
I hardly need to tell you that you are beginning careers in a nation remarkably different from just a generation ago 諸位事業生涯起步時所處的國度切尼:與僅僅一代人以前相比,有如滄海桑田。這不用我說
He had no reason to really care much for cogan ' s story , yet he was strangely absorbed into this tale from a generation ago 在他意識的深處,他那冷靜的自我在瘋狂地抗拒那些話語,但是他的心卻對這敵人感到特別親近。
A generation ago , the symbol of economic polarization was the urban ghetto . now it ' s the gated communities and other redoubts of the wealthy 一代人的時間以前,經濟兩極分化的象征是城市聚居區,現在的象征是富人居住的有大門把守的社區和其它堡壘式的居住區。
A generation ago there were only a million cars in all of china ; now there are thirty three million and that number is expected to quadruple over the next fifteen years 一代人前全中國一共只有100萬輛汽車,但是現在卻有3300萬輛汽車,而且這個數字有望在下一個15年里變成現在的4倍。