单词 | lost generation |
释义 | > as lemmaslost generation lost generation n. spec. that of the period of the 1914–18 war, a high proportion of whose men were killed in the trench warfare; also used more generally of any generation judged to have ‘lost’ its values, etc. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > generation lost generation1926 1926 E. Hemingway Sun also Rises (title page) ‘You are all a lost generation.’—Gertrude Stein in conversation. 1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations iv. 57 I was nineteen when the affair [sc. the war] ended... I belong practically to the Lost Generation. 1939 C. Day Lewis Child of Misfortune ii. i. 146 ‘Ha,’ Alec yelled. ‘We're the Lost Generation.’ 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) xi. 197 The era of the Lost Generation and the notorious expatriates. 1959 Listener 15 Oct. 616/2 Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, and Katherine Anne Porter—members of the so-called ‘lost generation’, strove and strayed on the left banks between the wars. 1969 Times 5 Dec. 7/1 Religion, in one form or another, is frequently a straw to which the lost generation of hippies clings. 1970 D. T. Turner in Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men 11 New York was an exciting place for young black intellectuals and artists during the mid-Twenties. Afro-American culture had been rediscovered... The ‘Lost Generation’ danced wildly to jazz rhythms. < as lemmas |
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