单词 | generation-conscious |
释义 | > as lemmasgeneration-conscious generation-conscious adj. aware of being part of one's own generation, esp. in terms of how it differs from previous generations. ΚΠ 1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations iv. 57 ‘I remember an air raid,’ said Julian. ‘They woke me up and carried me down to the basement. I am the air raid generation.’ ‘They're terribly generation-conscious,’ Adrian explained. 1934 R. Campbell Broken Rec. 50 Quarrelling with my father made me generation-conscious. 1999 R. Hoggart First & Last Things (2002) p. xviii Such truths, even the most apparently obvious, have to be rediscovered in each generation, even by those so generation-conscious that they often assume that no truths are carried over. < as lemmas |
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