英语词汇“generation”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	generation
释义	gen·er·a·tion \ˌjenəˈrāshən\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English generacioun, from Middle French generation, from Latin generation-, generatio, from generatus + -ion-, -io -ion 1. a. : a body of men, animals, or plants having a common parent or parents and constituting a single degree or step in the line of descent from an ancestor < five generations are shown in this family portrait > < its surface enriched with the … carcasses of hundreds of generations of buffalo — B.K.Sandwell > < studied a bacterial culture through 60 generations > b. (1) : the whole number of human beings born and living contemporaneously < our generation has seen immense changes > < his work affected the life and thought of later generations > (2) : a particular category of individuals born and living contemporaneously < inspired … a whole generation of theoreticians — Newsweek > < long after that generation of scholars had passed away — G.B.Shaw > < uses the vocabulary of his philosophic generation — John Dewey > < the present generation of insects appears to have developed immunity to the spray > (3) : the average span of time variously computed and varying according to cultural and other conditions between the birth of parents and that of their children < among primitive peoples twenty years may make a generation > < a generation … is roughly equal to the mean age of mothers at the birth of their daughters — Demographic Yearbook > < fifty years constitutes roughly a working lifetime, a period covering two generations — Arthur Geddes > < the cornerstone of the moral system … for generations — Joe Alvin > (4) : a group of individuals having contemporaneously a status (as that of students in a school) which each one holds only for a limited period < repeated by generation after generation of pupils — H.G.G.Herklots > (5) : a type or class of objects derived or developed from an earlier type < the Air Force's new generation of powerful supersonic fighters — Kenneth Koyen > 2. a. : the act or process of producing offspring : procreation < the organs of generation > b. : origination by some mathematical, chemical, or other process : production, formation < the generation of heat > < the generation of sounds > specifically : the formation of a geometrical figure by the motion of some other figure < the generation of a line by a point > c. : the process of coming into being : genesis, development, rise < the spontaneous generation of these churches — Oscar Handlin > < factors in the generation of income — G.V.Cox > 3. obsolete : race, kind, breed, stock, family
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