| 单词 | generation |
| 释义 | generation (once / 99 pages) 1n 2n A generation can refer to a group of people who live at the same time and are about the same age. But generation is also the act of creating something, such as income, ideas or kids. In 1965, Pete Townsend, the guitarist of The Who, wrote a song called "My Generation." The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix and other popular musicians of the day were called “the Woodstock Generation,” because they performed at a famous music festival in Woodstock, New York. Generation is used in another way when people credit those bands — along with Elvis, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones — with the generation of rock-and-roll culture. WORD FAMILYgeneration: generational, generations+/generate: generated, generates, generating, generation, generative, generator, regenerate/generated: self-generated/generational: generationally/generator: generators/regenerate: regenerated, regenerates, regenerating, regeneration, unregenerate/regenerated: unregenerated/regeneration: regenerations/unregenerate: unregenerately USAGE EXAMPLESSo he pushed through what the New York Times called “the most fundamental alteration of its rules in more than a generation.” Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) It was there that Mr. Qarau realized future generations might never see or taste a turtle if harvesting continued. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) They are small electricity generation and distribution systems that operate independently of larger grids. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent Hypo|Hyper posterity all future generations baby boom, baby-boom generationthe larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II gen X, generation Xthe generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s) biological group a group of plants or animals 2n the normal time between successive generations they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade Hyper period, period of time, time period an amount of time 3n all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age Syn|Hypo|Hyper coevals, contemporaries youth culture young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture peer groupcontemporaries of the same status hip-hopan urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city youth subculturea minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre people (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively 4n a stage of technological development or innovation the third generation of computers Hyper phase, stage any distinct time period in a sequence of events 5n the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper multiplication, propagation biogenesis, biogeny the production of living organisms from other living organisms breeding, facts of life, procreation, reproduction the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring 1n the production of heat or electricity dams were built for the generation of electricity Hyper production (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale 2n a coming into being Syn|Hyper genesis beginning the event consisting of the start of something |
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