单词 | lost generation |
释义 | lost generationnoun 1The generation reaching maturity during and just after the First World War, a high proportion of whose men were killed during those years.The stage is the designer's evocation of a World War I blue remembered battlefield, peopled by a ghostly lost generation in sad tin hats and mouldy cloth, their women anonymous wraiths in caps and shrouds....
1.1An unfulfilled generation coming to maturity during a period of instability.But a number are genuinely interested in politics in a serious manner - and these people I feel particular sorrow for, as they are potentially a lost generation....
OriginPhrase applied by Gertrude Stein to disillusioned young American writers, such as Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound, who went to live in Paris in the 1920s. |
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