generation
美 [ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃ(ə)n] 
英 [.dʒenə'reɪʃ(ə)n]
- n.代；（统称）一代人；（家史中的）一代；一批
- 网络世代；产生；发生
词形变化
复数：generations 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | [cspv] （统称）一代人，同代人，同辈人all the people who were born at about the same time |
| the younger/older generation 年轻的一代；老一辈 |
| My generation have grown up without the experience of a world war. 我这一代人在成长过程中没有经历过世界大战。 |
| I often wonder what future generations will make of our efforts. 我常常想，后代将怎样评价我们所作出的努力。 |
2. | [c] 代，一代，一辈（通常认为大约 30 年）the average time in which children grow up, become adults and have children of their own, (usually considered to be about 30 years) |
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| My family have lived in this house for generations . 我家祖祖辈辈都住在这房子里。 |
3. | [c][u] （家史中的）一代，一辈a single stage in the history of a family |
| stories passed down from generation to generation 世代相传的故事 |
| a first-/second-generation American(= a person whose family has lived in America for one/two generations) 第一╱第二代美国人（家人在美国居住了一、二代者） |
4. | [c][ususing] 一批，一届（从事特定活动的同龄人）a group of people of similar age involved in a particular activity |
| She has inspired a whole generation of fashion school graduates. 她激励了整整一届时装学校的毕业生。 |
5. | [c][ususing] （产品发展，尤指技术方面的）代a stage in the development of a product, usually a technical one |
| fifth-generation computing 第五代计算机技术 |
| a new generation of vehicle 新一代交通运输工具 |
6. | [u] （尤指电、热等的）产生the production of sth, especially electricity, heat, etc. |
| the generation of electricity 发电 |
| methods of income generation 产生收益的方法 |
英汉解释
n. | 5. 完善化阶段,完善化方案,完善化的模型;发展阶段 |
英英解释
例句
As such, we need to prepare the next generation of entrepreneurs to meet the challenges brought by the global nature of enterprise.
就此而言，我们必须为下一代创业者做好准备，以满足全球化企业带来的挑战。
Here's one of the biggest phenomena of our generation and I get to add my own voice to it!
这里是我们这代人最大的文化现象之一，而我将要在这之中添上我自己的见解！
I feel honored to have known Steve Jobs. He was the most innovative entrepreneur of our generation. His legacy will live on for the ages.
认识乔布斯是我的荣幸。他是我们这一代里最有创造力的企业家。他的影响将一直存在。
The idea of being willing to, as he says, sacrifice a part of his body for a career, you could easily translate that to a whole generation.
按照他的话来说，为了一个职业愿意牺牲自己身体的某个部分，你很容易将之放到整个一代人身上。
I sort of just missed you. I was the next generation.
命运恰恰把我同你错开了，我是小辈；
A woman is a nest-defender - her role was to ensure survival of the next generation.
女人是巢穴的保卫者——她的任务就是确保下一代的生存。
Right off the bat, JAXB isn't going to be an option for you, as JAXB only accepts XML Schema as a constraint model for class generation.
毫无疑问，JAXB不在选择范围之列，因为它只接受XMLSchema作为约束模型来生成类。
You guys of your generation all seem to look identical with your baggy pants and identikit haircuts.
你们这一代人穿戴宽松的裤子，留着奇异的发型，看起来一模一样。
A new generation of dissatisfied and radical Kurds could easily unleash a cycle of violence that even the PKK might be unable to control.
不满和激进的新一代库尔德人可能很容易释放出周期性暴力，即使是库尔德工人党也可能无法控制。
As the lanterns are carried on the wind, the tradition is carried on to the next generation.
由于灯笼是是随风飘动的，这项传统传给了下一代。
But each generation grows up into respectable parents, ready to be terrified to death of the next one.
但是每一代都成长为受人尊敬的父母，都会由于下一代的死亡而胆战心惊。
all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.
全人类是按常例传宗接代，由亚当而来，都在亚当里犯了罪，在他初次犯罪中与他一同堕落了。
He said the new generation of leaders should be "humble and eager to learn the model, should be tireless struggle to defend socialism. "
他说，新一代领导人应该成为“谦虚和好学的楷模，应该为捍卫社会主义而不倦地斗争”。
The new generation of shutterbugs nowadays is no doubt the diluted presence of artist and photographer.
当今的拍客一族无疑是艺术家、摄影家身份的一种稀释和泛化。
'It really intrigued me, ' recalls Gen. Lorenz, now retired. 'He made a whole generation of airmen think about the world in a different way.
现已退休的洛伦茨回忆说，他的介绍确实激起了我的好奇心，他让整整一代空军士兵用一种不同的方式来思考世界。
Although the exinite content in coal is the lowest than other macerals it had the greatest potential of hydrocarbon generation.
虽然壳质组在煤岩中含量很低，但生烃潜力高于其他显微组分。
It can be hard to ask a generation that remembers mass starvation to consider fat and meat the enemy.
要想让经历过大饥荒的一代人将脂肪和肉视为寇仇，可能并非易事。
"Our generation has been steeped in a very partisan political environment, " he said, terming the condition "post-partisanship. "
他说：“我们这代人一直浸淫在一种党派政治极其严重的环境中。”他随后以“后党派时代”界定现状。
The British nation did not spring up in a generation.
不列颠民族不是在一代人的时间内崛起的。
No public leader of his generation was more eloquent in articulating the liberal, idealistic international program than Wilson.
在威尔逊那个时代，没有一个出众领袖在提出自由主义的，理想主义的国际纲领方面，比他更能言善辨。
He wasn't uncle to any of us; he was merely married to a distant relative of our parents' generation.
他其实不是我们任何一人的嫡亲姑父；只不过和我们父辈的一位远亲结了婚罢了。
The family, as it considerably falls under modern conditions, has estimation in which it was held by an earlier generation.
在现代条件下，家庭的地位已经一落千丈，而不象在早些世代那样受尊重了。
"More than any other generation, " he said, "our generation views the adult world with great skepticism. "
他说：“我们这一代比任何一代人都抱着更大的疑虑看待成人世界。”
I felt sure she would be ruined for a generation by such a plunge, and this proved true.
我确信由于这样的一次冒进，它将遭到毁灭达一个世纪之久，而这已经被证明是真实的。
Like many others, I grew up in a community where the people were barely a generation away from colonial rule.
同其他许多人一样，我是在一个摆脱殖民统治才不过一代人时间的社会里长大的。
You're just one generation away from the South, you know.
你只离开了南方30年，你知道。
Howells said that his novels were a response to the needs of his generation.
毫厄尔斯说他的小说是为迎合时代而作。
Twice in a single generation, major tragedy had come to the world, and America's national conscience felt uneasy.
仅仅在一代之内，重大悲剧在世界上两度发生，美国国家的良心感觉不安。
Speeches also enable ideas to be passed on from generation to generation so that the stock of human knowledge slowly increased.
演说还能使思想代代相传，这样，人类的知识宝库就慢慢地丰富起来。
A new generation fusion reactor will be needed after that to prove the next step, ignition.
此后，将需要新一代的聚变反应堆对下一阶段，即“起爆”阶段进行试验。
A new generation of Americans-born in this century is tempered by war and disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
新的一代美国人，这一代人是在本世纪出生的，经受过战争的锻炼，在艰难而痛苦的和平时期受到了陶冶。
In a few years now, I will be bowing out, my task of producing another generation complete.
再过几年，我将正式引退。我生产下一代的任务完成了。
Let us now face the problem of the actual mechanical generation of the seismic waves.
现在让我们来看看地震波的实际发生机制问题。
Because I was involved with them; because, whether I liked it or not, they were my generation.
因为我和他们休戚相关，因为不管我愿意与否，他们属于我这一代。
Schools help to acculturate the second generation of immigrants.
学校有助于使移民的第二代适应迁入国的文化习俗。
"The third Generation be Goddamned" answered Gant furiously.
“什么第三代，胡说八道！”甘德怒不可遏地回答道。
The occurrence of high shear stress at the fibre end is a factor which is expected to lead to crack generation.
在纤维端部存在高切变应力视为导致产生裂缝的因素。
There is a big change coming here in America and in learning in the only hope of the coming generation.
美国正有一大变化来到，下一代独一无二的指望就在于研究学问。
With each generation they had become, or at least so they thought, increasingly assimilated into the German culture that they loved.
他们每一代人或者至少他们是这么认为，在不断的被他们所热爱的德国文化所同化。
"The next generation will come up in less than two years, " he says.
“不出两年的时间，下一代将走上舞台。”开复说。
What is happening now could mark one of those sea changes in public policy that seem to come along once in every generation.
今日之事，不过是每代人都会经历一次的公共政策变化罢了。
All the same, it would have been good for me back then to be able to feel I was part of my generation.
尽管如此，对那时的我来说，能够感到我是我那一代人中的一份子，这不失为一件好事。
She, like the rest of her generation, had been robbed of her own history.
她，就像其它的每一代人一样，被劫去她自己的历史。
He examines the history, movements and trends over the last generation that have brought Europe to its current perilous state.
对于造成当前欧洲危急的上一代人，他重新审视了他们所经历的那段历史，运动和潮流变化。
An online talent scout, Plentitube is trying to become a middleman of the new media, a matchmaker for the YouTube generation.
作为在线人才星探，Plentitube力图成为新媒体的经纪人，YouTube一代的媒人。
A generation is growing up plugged into an internet-polity that lets it trade ideas and goods in a way that has no precedent.
一代人正在密切参与互联网政治的情况下成长，这使得他们能够以前所未有的方式，交换思想与商品。
The Commission president talked about Europe as a global player and leader. He called it a key ambition for this generation of politicians.
这位欧委会主席谈到欧洲要成为全球参与者与领导者，并将其称作这一代政治家的主要抱负。
Even the next generation of management gurus seems to have benefited from a spell at the Firm.
甚至比其晚一辈的管理学大师们也从麦肯锡的魔力中受益匪浅。
Under North Korea's "Three Generation Rule, " up to three generations of the criminal's family must be imprisoned as traitors.
朝鲜有所谓的“三代牵连法律”，就是说罪行追溯至（罪犯）他的祖孙三代，他们一律必须当作叛徒关押起来。
Good books are like a wise and nice man of last generation, who supports me to walk forward, and helps me come to understand the world.
优秀的书籍像一个智慧的长者，搀扶着我，使我一步步向前进，并且逐渐懂得了世界。
A generation of Japanese schoolchildren grew up accustomed to having a bit of whale in their lunch boxes.
整整一代日本人在成长期都习惯在午餐合里放上一片鲸鱼。
That is going to be the IT challenge of the next generation, is communicating all this information.
这将是下一代面临的巨大挑战——信息的交流。
Artificial Islands have been a conceptual idea for ecological power generation for over a decade.
在近十年里，一直是生态发电的一个概念。
"It's my responsibility to write it down; if I do not, the younger generation will know nothing about their history, " she said.
“把它记录下来是我的责任。如果我不这么做，年轻的一代将对历史毫无所知。”她说。
"In the next generation model, the data will be sent automatically to family members or doctors via the Internet, " she said.
她说：“下一代模型则能将数据自动通过网络发送给你的家庭成员或医生。”
The show, too, would be a window into the lives of the "rich second generation, " the children of China's new money.
这个节目也将会成为进入“富二代”生活的一扇窗户，他们是中国新富阶层的后代。
"We've created a generation of young people whose sole ambition is to have a piece of property under their name, " he said.
我们打造了一代年轻人，他们唯一的雄心就是有一份财产属于他们名下。
In this paper, the body-fitted grids of the combustor with the swirl cup are generated by an elliptical grid generation technique.
本文采用偏微分方程法生成贴体网格，在任意曲线坐标系下数值研究两种先进燃烧室火焰筒及其旋流器三维紊流流场。
