generation是什么意思？

generation

英[ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃn] 美[ˌdʒɛnəˈreʃən]

• n. 一代人，代（约30年），时代，生殖，产生；

复数：generations;

例句

• 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。
• 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。

英语四级真题

They weren't looking for cured meats, organic produce or beautiful presentation; they were looking for whatever they could get their hands on, and this prioritisation of quantity over quality prevailed for decades, meaning a generation was brought up with food that couldn't compete with neighbouring France, Italy, Belgium or Spain.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  （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.
  例句
  ...the younger generation of Party members... 年轻一代的党员 David Mamet has long been considered the leading American playwright of his generation. 长期以来，戴维·马梅特一直被视为同代人中最杰出的美国剧作家。
• N-COUNT
  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.
  例句
  Within a generation flight has become the method used by many travellers. 就在不到一代人的时间里，坐飞机已经成了很多旅行者的出行方式。
• N-COUNT
  （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.
  例句
  ...a new generation of IBM/Apple computers. 新一代的IBM/苹果电脑
• 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.
  例句
  ...second generation Asians in Britain... 英国的第二代亚洲移民 She is a first generation American. 她是第一代美国移民。
• N-UNCOUNT
  （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.
  例句
  Japan has announced plans for a sharp rise in its nuclear power generation. 日本宣布了大幅增加核能发电的计划。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  同时代的人, 一代人, 一代，同代人，同辈人
  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。
  产生, 发生
  Steam and water power are used for the generation of electricity. 蒸汽和水力可用来发电。 The biology class studied the generation of fruit flies. 生物班的学生研究了果蝇的繁殖。

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;
  "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"
  4. a stage of technological development or innovation;
  "the third generation of computers"
  5. a coming into being
  6. the production of heat or electricity;
  "dams were built for the generation of 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。；