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generation
noun /ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/
1
[C] a group of people in society who are born and live around the same time 代;一代

The site was preserved as a monument for future generations. 这个地方被保存下来,供后人凭吊纪念。

People retiring today are wealthier than the previous generation. 现在退休的人比上一代人富裕。

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the number of years that usually pass between the birth of a person and the birth of that person's children 一代人的时间

Within a generation, the family had lost all its wealth. 只不过一代人,这个家庭就家财罄尽。

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the generation gap
noun
the difference in opinions or behaviour between older and younger people which often causes problems between them 代沟
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the Beat Generation
1
those young people in the 1950s who did not accept the usual ideas and rules of Western society, living together in groups and sometimes taking illegal drugs 垮掉的一代(指20世纪50年代不接受西方社会传统的观念和规则,在一起生活,有时吸毒的年轻人)
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baby boomer
noun [C]
someone who was born during the baby boom after the Second World War (指第二次世界大战后)生育高峰期出生的人
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boomer
noun [C] American informal /ˈbuːmə(r)/
a baby boomer (指第二次世界大战后)生育高峰期出生的人
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Generation X
noun
the people born in the 1960s and 1970s, who are sometimes seen as having no strong moral values X一代(生于20世纪60年代和70年代,没有强烈道德感的一代人)
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Generation Y
noun /dʒenəˌreiʃ(ə)n ˈwaɪ/
the generation of people born from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s

Generation Y is plugged-in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Generation Z
noun /dʒenəˌreiʃ(ə)n ˈzed/
the generation of people born from the mid 1990s until the present day

One quarter of Generation Z do not know how to cook at all.

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Generation K
noun /ˌdʒenəreɪʃ(ə)n ˈkeɪ/
young people, especially young women, born between 1995 and 2002

Generation K is more sober than previous generations: teenagers drink less alcohol and take less drugs than their recent predecessors.

This meaning is based on one submitted to the Open Dictionary from United Kingdom on 01/11/2015
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born free
noun [C] South African /ˌbɔː(r)n ˈfriː/
in South Africa and Zimbabwe, someone who was born after the country attained democracy

The born frees are saying 'don't tell us about the war'.

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generational
adjective /ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃ(ə)nəl/
relating to a particular generation or to the relationship between generations

generational differences 代沟

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intergenerational
adjective /ˌɪntə(r)ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l/
relating to more than one generation (=group of people who were born at about the same time) 多代人之间的
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millennial
noun [C] /mɪˈleniəl/
a person who became an adult around the year 2000

Millennials are used to working in teams and want to make friends with people at work.

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the older/younger generation
phrase
the people in society at a particular time who are old or young 老一代/年轻一代

New technology need not be the preserve of the younger generation. 新技术并非由年轻一代独享。

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snowflake generation
noun [singular] showing disapproval /ˈsnəʊfleɪk dʒenəˌreɪʃ(ə)n/
a term used to refer to young people suggesting that as a group they are too sensitive and too easily offended

The next wave of graduates have been labelled the snowflake generation.

Not content with insulting us individually, baby boomers have also coined the expression 'Generation Snowflake' to tar everyone born in the Nineties with the same brush.

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the younger generation
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the youngest adults in a society (成年人中)年轻的一代
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