Definition of generation in English:

generation

noun dʒɛnəˈreɪʃ(ə)nˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃ(ə)n

1All of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.
总称一代人，同代人
one of his generation's finest songwriters
他那一代最优秀的歌曲作者之一。
Example sentencesExamples
- Despite being fêted as the greatest Shakespearean actor of his generation, he used to claim that he never understood a character until he found the right hat.
- The Internet and chatting have contributed to a different set of vocabulary that would cause nightmare to generations grown up in Victorian tradition.
- She grew up in a generation that knew all about hard work from an early age.
- Her name was still magic for many of the public but a new generation was growing up in the post-war period for whom she was yesterday's news.
- There isn't another actor in his generation who could have carried off the conflict and humour of the character with the same skill.
- This is a film about a generation that was growing up during wartime, a period of deterioration of all moral, social and economic values.
- I think a lot of the folks that I worked with at NASA were from the generation that grew up at that period of time.
- But as generations grow up things flip on their heads.
- As a gifted mimic and notorious perfectionist, she would later become the most respected female actor of her generation.
- So much of what has been written to date comes from an older generation that have not grown up in a digital universe, or whose exposure has been limited.
- The current generation of athletes has grown up in an era of doping.
- Not only has it contributed to the deskilling of the current generation of working age adults, it has also affected health.
- How can the current generation of adult Australians help our youth?
- He is now one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation.
- Shaped and moulded by the seasons, John grew up in a generation when everything had its place.
- For the generations that grew up during the space race, the future was very hard to predict because the present was moving so fast.
- They were the images a generation grew up with and each episode followed a familiar pattern: the atrocity, the grief, then anger.
- The next generation of young adults is already giving thought to its future family life.
- It's a journeyman actor's CV, not the kind that, in our fantasies, we would fashion for one of the greatest actors of a generation.
- Because of them, countless generations of children have grown up believing that fairies are mischievous little folk who flutter about on butterfly wings.
Synonyms
age, age group, peer group, cohort, stage of life
1. 1.1 The average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, in which children grow up, become adults, and have children of their own.
  一代人（通常为30年左右）
  the same families have lived here for generations
  Example sentencesExamples
  For generations, people have grown up with the constant message that life is good, and they have internalised it.
  For countless generations, children have grown up to take over the farm work, never knowing or expecting to know how to read or write.
  It will be generations before anything grows back in vast areas of the Park.
  A school yard game that's been around for generations seems to be growing in popularity and killing kids.
  His village had grown garlic chives for generations, but the land could not keep up with the population.
  Substantial urban change is generally expected to span prolonged periods: decades, generations, centuries.
  The trauma the abused person experienced will spread to other family members for generations.
  Do foods produced from today's high-yield crops have the same nutritional quality as those grown in generations past?
  He himself feels this comes from a generation back when members of both sides of his family were blacksmiths.
  He believes it could be impossible to replace the stock his family took three generations to breed and he could still be out of pocket.
  Our youth are growing up in a generation where motivation is a politically correct term parading as selfish bias.
  Eventually, over a period of many generations, the remainder of the brain capacity will be utilised.
  Many churches have little memorials to families who have been members for generations, or who have been particularly generous of their time and treasure.
  Not only are policemen getting younger, but people are living longer - ten years more on average than a generation ago.
  This has been my family's house for generations!
  Over five generations, family members have lived through the boom and bust cycles of life on the land.
  Even as courts have, over the past two generations, grown more dismissive of hunches, there has been a counter-revolution in the cognitive sciences.
  It was tended by a single family for six generations before it became part of the collection.
  Synonyms
  ages, an age, years, aeons, an aeon, a long time, an eternity
  British informal donkey's years, yonks
2. 1.2 A set of members of a family regarded as a single step or stage in descent.
  （同一血统的）一代人
  as modifier, in combination a third-generation Canadian
  Example sentencesExamples
  It descended through three generations of a family from Deans, New Jersey, and bears the names of three family members pinpricked on the frame.
  The book is set in the 1960s and tells the story of four generations of one family living in a rambling old house.
  Groups at the march ranged from union activists to medical students wearing their white coats to three generations of family members.
  A 26-year-old man was jailed for life and two others jailed for 18 years each for their parts in an arson attack on a house which left three generations of the same family dead.
  For this family, religion provides a band that connects family members across generations.
  The passing of a beloved relative is always sad, but there is something especially poignant about the death of the last member of a generation in a family.
  That dining table is a place where mom's going to prepare the Thanksgiving Dinner for two or three generations of family members and share and create memories.
  People recognize members of previous generations of family or local figures as well as regions, counties, and hometowns.
  Both were built with the aim of teaching the younger generation to love family members.
  Mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, family members of all generations have been lost.
  She is the last member of her generation of a respected family.
  This study found the traditional knowledge of healing and use of medicinal plants is disseminated through generations by family members.
  Over 50 family members from three generations crowded in for the party.
  As you know, there have been four generations of family members running the company, and that generational growth is what we look for.
  In other words, several members of different generations of the same family are affected with a higher than normal frequency.
  A large compound with brothers and their wives will always be bustling with family members of several generations and children of many ages.
  Michael was a member of an old and respected family and is the last member of his generation.
  Members of three generations of a family died in their car when sandwiched between the lorries.
  For the project, the children spoke to members of older generations, either older family members or friends to ask about how life was when they were children.
  She has been able to identify the condition in as many as three generations of a single family.
3. 1.3 A group of people of similar age involved in a particular activity.
  a new generation of actors and directors
  Example sentencesExamples
  And what is most objected to by the new generation of human rights activists has been precisely the demand for neutrality.
  It will be operated by the English Golf Union and is designed to help develop the next generation of champions capable of winning on the world stage.
  His appearance as Hamlet at the Old Vic Theatre in London established him as one of the most talented actors of his generation, ideally suited to the great Shakespearean roles.
  After the political somnolence of the McCarthy era, the ban the bomb and civil rights movements awakened a new generation of young activists.
  Then came the rise of the anti-capitalist and anti-war movement which has galvanised a new generation of activists and enthused many others.
  What makes him stand out even among a generation of excellent young actors?
  It only scratches the surface of what will result as new methods of communication develop and future generations of users emerge.
  She is more concerned, however, with the new generation of Scottish actors who have gone straight to Hollywood, bypassing the Scottish stage.
  Subsequent versions of Linux and their source code have been freely available over the internet, attracting a new generation of software developers.
  The movement saw the emergence of a new generation of activists.
  But a new generation of young activists were drawn into politics by the struggle.
  The goal is to develop a new generation of soldiers using robot technology.
  But the anti-capitalist movement represents, above all, the entry of a new generation into political activity.
  At 34, she is a rising star in the first generation of private property developers in more than half a century.
  He's won an adoring young following, after being championed by lads' magazines and a new generation of actors.
  We must ensure quality care for future surgical patients by developing a new generation of perioperative nurses.
  Has New Zealand spawned a generation of video-game developers?
  He fitted so comfortably into the role of misfit that it became a template for a whole generation of actors.
  Against that background a new generation of activists, inspired by the global outlook of the anti-capitalist movement, is turning to ideas of mass struggle.
  It launched the careers of a new generation of Scottish actors.
  Synonyms
  age, age group, peer group, cohort, stage of life
4. 1.4 A single stage in the development of a type of product or technology.
  （产品发展的）一代
  a new generation of rear-engined sports cars
  新一代后引擎跑车。
  as modifier, in combination fourth-generation broadband
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Fire and Heat Materials Research Team is developing the next generation of high-performance, flame-retardant technical yarns.
  Chip makers are increasingly turning to collaborative projects to help reduce the growing cost of developing future generations of process technology.
  Development of the new generation of phones, which are more sophisticated, is thought unlikely to reduce demand for support and repairs.
  Three years ago it began development of its next generation large truck.
  We've run into a number of issues that are often cured in subsequent product generations, but that are very frustrating when initially encountered.
  Over the next five years, the government will develop a new generation of modern community hospitals.
  Menu costs arise because medical device companies often launch new products - or new generations of the same product - in rapid succession.
  Cancer researchers in Yorkshire have secured millions of pounds to develop a new generation of therapies to target the most common form of the disease in men.
  The first three generations were ablative WORM products, while the fourth is based on phase change technology.
  However, the machine that will be used tomorrow night for the count in the Civic Office comes from a new generation of equipment developed after the Florida fiasco.
  Every customer will be helping the development of a new generation of spacecraft.
  He notes the center is designed to evolve into a ‘more urban’ place in the next generation of development.
  But the program to develop a new generation of reconnaissance satellites is vastly over budget and years behind schedule.
  Enemies of the state are used in experiments to develop new generations of chemical and biological weapons that threaten the world.
  Some statistics about the regions illustrate just how big a challenge Ireland faces in the race to develop the next generation of medicines.
  The ordnance and explosives experts have teamed up with a de-mining company to develop the next generation of anti-land mine device.
  Attention must therefore be paid to all aspects of the ecosystem and to their interactions when developing future generations of supercomputers.
  The technical team is continually developing the next generation of technology to support testers into the future.
  She is now working with pharmaceutical companies to develop a new generation of drugs that may be more effective than existing ones.
  Along with its strong existing base in micromachining, B.C. has all the resources necessary to play a leading role in the development of the next generations of nanotechnologies.
  Synonyms
  crop, batch, wave, type, range
2mass noun The production or creation of something.
产生，发生
methods of electricity generation
发电方法。
the generation of wealth
财富的产生。
Example sentencesExamples
- Previously described protocols were used for isolation of mitochondria and generation of cytochrome spectra.
- We have greatly limited sulfur emissions from electricity generation, thereby reducing risks from acid rain.
- We are not allowed to use coal in our electricity generation.
- Renewable ‘green’ power will definitely be playing an important part in electricity generation in the years to come.
- Much energy will be spent making energy, such as electricity generation and the process of liquefying natural gas.
- Scotland's vast renewable energy sources will certainly have some direct contribution to make to electricity generation.
- Oil was in turn followed by gas, increasingly used for electricity generation, which brought power and light to households throughout the world.
- The main example I chose was the use of nuclear power for electricity generation.
- ‘It makes absolutely no sense to burn coal for electricity generation,’ he said.
- His secondary goal was to use the area as an incubator for business generation.
- With the higher demand last year, he said its power plants had used less natural gas in electricity generation.
- Patents are meant to reward the inventors but also to promote progress through the generation of useful new products.
- It will be the job of wind engineers to tailor designs to specific wind regimes to maximize electricity generation.
- One of them is the reserve electricity generation that we have already mentioned, and I am pleased that action has been taken about that.
- Has the Minister received any advice recently about Government planning for more electricity generation?
- This cooperative interaction influences both the magnitude and kinetics of force generation in skeletal muscle.
- I can't understand why you would question me about whether this is really for electricity generation.
- In the longer term, it says that there is an available resource from renewables to account for half of the UK's electricity generation.
- We rely very heavily on fossil fuel generation of electricity and renewable energies provides a very, very clean alternative.
- All are capable of intensifying oxyradical generation in vivo and depleting tissue antioxidant stores.
Synonyms
creation, causing, causation, making, engendering, spawning, production, initiation, origination, inception, occasioning, prompting, kindling, triggering, inspiration
1. 2.1 The propagation of living organisms; procreation.
  生物繁殖；生殖
  Synonyms
  procreation, reproduction, propagation, breeding, fathering, siring, engendering, spawning, creation
  literary begetting

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin generatio(n-), from the verb generare (see generate).

Definition of generation in US English:

generation

nounˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃ(ə)nˌjenəˈrāSH(ə)n

1All of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.
总称一代人，同代人
one of his generation's finest songwriters
他那一代最优秀的歌曲作者之一。
Example sentencesExamples
- How can the current generation of adult Australians help our youth?
- This is a film about a generation that was growing up during wartime, a period of deterioration of all moral, social and economic values.
- He is now one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation.
- For the generations that grew up during the space race, the future was very hard to predict because the present was moving so fast.
- Shaped and moulded by the seasons, John grew up in a generation when everything had its place.
- Her name was still magic for many of the public but a new generation was growing up in the post-war period for whom she was yesterday's news.
- The Internet and chatting have contributed to a different set of vocabulary that would cause nightmare to generations grown up in Victorian tradition.
- The next generation of young adults is already giving thought to its future family life.
- Because of them, countless generations of children have grown up believing that fairies are mischievous little folk who flutter about on butterfly wings.
- The current generation of athletes has grown up in an era of doping.
- But as generations grow up things flip on their heads.
- Despite being fêted as the greatest Shakespearean actor of his generation, he used to claim that he never understood a character until he found the right hat.
- They were the images a generation grew up with and each episode followed a familiar pattern: the atrocity, the grief, then anger.
- There isn't another actor in his generation who could have carried off the conflict and humour of the character with the same skill.
- As a gifted mimic and notorious perfectionist, she would later become the most respected female actor of her generation.
- So much of what has been written to date comes from an older generation that have not grown up in a digital universe, or whose exposure has been limited.
- Not only has it contributed to the deskilling of the current generation of working age adults, it has also affected health.
- She grew up in a generation that knew all about hard work from an early age.
- It's a journeyman actor's CV, not the kind that, in our fantasies, we would fashion for one of the greatest actors of a generation.
- I think a lot of the folks that I worked with at NASA were from the generation that grew up at that period of time.
Synonyms
crop, batch, wave, type, range
age, age group, peer group, cohort, stage of life
1. 1.1 The average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, during which children are born and grow up, become adults, and begin to have children of their own.
  一代人（通常为30年左右）
  Example sentencesExamples
  His village had grown garlic chives for generations, but the land could not keep up with the population.
  The trauma the abused person experienced will spread to other family members for generations.
  Even as courts have, over the past two generations, grown more dismissive of hunches, there has been a counter-revolution in the cognitive sciences.
  It was tended by a single family for six generations before it became part of the collection.
  Not only are policemen getting younger, but people are living longer - ten years more on average than a generation ago.
  Substantial urban change is generally expected to span prolonged periods: decades, generations, centuries.
  Over five generations, family members have lived through the boom and bust cycles of life on the land.
  He believes it could be impossible to replace the stock his family took three generations to breed and he could still be out of pocket.
  For countless generations, children have grown up to take over the farm work, never knowing or expecting to know how to read or write.
  Many churches have little memorials to families who have been members for generations, or who have been particularly generous of their time and treasure.
  He himself feels this comes from a generation back when members of both sides of his family were blacksmiths.
  Eventually, over a period of many generations, the remainder of the brain capacity will be utilised.
  It will be generations before anything grows back in vast areas of the Park.
  A school yard game that's been around for generations seems to be growing in popularity and killing kids.
  This has been my family's house for generations!
  Our youth are growing up in a generation where motivation is a politically correct term parading as selfish bias.
  For generations, people have grown up with the constant message that life is good, and they have internalised it.
  Do foods produced from today's high-yield crops have the same nutritional quality as those grown in generations past?
  Synonyms
  ages, an age, years, aeons, an aeon, a long time, an eternity
2. 1.2 A set of members of a family regarded as a single step or stage in descent.
  （同一血统的）一代人
  as modifier, in combination a third-generation Canadian
  Example sentencesExamples
  Groups at the march ranged from union activists to medical students wearing their white coats to three generations of family members.
  Members of three generations of a family died in their car when sandwiched between the lorries.
  Mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, family members of all generations have been lost.
  A 26-year-old man was jailed for life and two others jailed for 18 years each for their parts in an arson attack on a house which left three generations of the same family dead.
  The book is set in the 1960s and tells the story of four generations of one family living in a rambling old house.
  That dining table is a place where mom's going to prepare the Thanksgiving Dinner for two or three generations of family members and share and create memories.
  This study found the traditional knowledge of healing and use of medicinal plants is disseminated through generations by family members.
  A large compound with brothers and their wives will always be bustling with family members of several generations and children of many ages.
  Michael was a member of an old and respected family and is the last member of his generation.
  The passing of a beloved relative is always sad, but there is something especially poignant about the death of the last member of a generation in a family.
  Both were built with the aim of teaching the younger generation to love family members.
  In other words, several members of different generations of the same family are affected with a higher than normal frequency.
  She is the last member of her generation of a respected family.
  She has been able to identify the condition in as many as three generations of a single family.
  Over 50 family members from three generations crowded in for the party.
  As you know, there have been four generations of family members running the company, and that generational growth is what we look for.
  People recognize members of previous generations of family or local figures as well as regions, counties, and hometowns.
  For the project, the children spoke to members of older generations, either older family members or friends to ask about how life was when they were children.
  It descended through three generations of a family from Deans, New Jersey, and bears the names of three family members pinpricked on the frame.
  For this family, religion provides a band that connects family members across generations.
3. 1.3 A single stage in the development of a type of product.
  （产品发展的）一代
  a new generation of rear-engined sports cars
  新一代后引擎跑车。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Fire and Heat Materials Research Team is developing the next generation of high-performance, flame-retardant technical yarns.
  Enemies of the state are used in experiments to develop new generations of chemical and biological weapons that threaten the world.
  Some statistics about the regions illustrate just how big a challenge Ireland faces in the race to develop the next generation of medicines.
  Menu costs arise because medical device companies often launch new products - or new generations of the same product - in rapid succession.
  The ordnance and explosives experts have teamed up with a de-mining company to develop the next generation of anti-land mine device.
  Along with its strong existing base in micromachining, B.C. has all the resources necessary to play a leading role in the development of the next generations of nanotechnologies.
  Cancer researchers in Yorkshire have secured millions of pounds to develop a new generation of therapies to target the most common form of the disease in men.
  But the program to develop a new generation of reconnaissance satellites is vastly over budget and years behind schedule.
  However, the machine that will be used tomorrow night for the count in the Civic Office comes from a new generation of equipment developed after the Florida fiasco.
  She is now working with pharmaceutical companies to develop a new generation of drugs that may be more effective than existing ones.
  Development of the new generation of phones, which are more sophisticated, is thought unlikely to reduce demand for support and repairs.
  Over the next five years, the government will develop a new generation of modern community hospitals.
  Chip makers are increasingly turning to collaborative projects to help reduce the growing cost of developing future generations of process technology.
  Attention must therefore be paid to all aspects of the ecosystem and to their interactions when developing future generations of supercomputers.
  We've run into a number of issues that are often cured in subsequent product generations, but that are very frustrating when initially encountered.
  He notes the center is designed to evolve into a ‘more urban’ place in the next generation of development.
  Every customer will be helping the development of a new generation of spacecraft.
  Three years ago it began development of its next generation large truck.
  The technical team is continually developing the next generation of technology to support testers into the future.
  The first three generations were ablative WORM products, while the fourth is based on phase change technology.
  Synonyms
  crop, batch, wave, type, range
2The production of something.
产生，发生
methods of electricity generation
发电方法。
the generation of wealth
财富的产生。
Example sentencesExamples
- Patents are meant to reward the inventors but also to promote progress through the generation of useful new products.
- We rely very heavily on fossil fuel generation of electricity and renewable energies provides a very, very clean alternative.
- It will be the job of wind engineers to tailor designs to specific wind regimes to maximize electricity generation.
- Much energy will be spent making energy, such as electricity generation and the process of liquefying natural gas.
- With the higher demand last year, he said its power plants had used less natural gas in electricity generation.
- Oil was in turn followed by gas, increasingly used for electricity generation, which brought power and light to households throughout the world.
- I can't understand why you would question me about whether this is really for electricity generation.
- The main example I chose was the use of nuclear power for electricity generation.
- One of them is the reserve electricity generation that we have already mentioned, and I am pleased that action has been taken about that.
- ‘It makes absolutely no sense to burn coal for electricity generation,’ he said.
- In the longer term, it says that there is an available resource from renewables to account for half of the UK's electricity generation.
- Scotland's vast renewable energy sources will certainly have some direct contribution to make to electricity generation.
- Has the Minister received any advice recently about Government planning for more electricity generation?
- His secondary goal was to use the area as an incubator for business generation.
- Previously described protocols were used for isolation of mitochondria and generation of cytochrome spectra.
- We are not allowed to use coal in our electricity generation.
- We have greatly limited sulfur emissions from electricity generation, thereby reducing risks from acid rain.
- All are capable of intensifying oxyradical generation in vivo and depleting tissue antioxidant stores.
- Renewable ‘green’ power will definitely be playing an important part in electricity generation in the years to come.
- This cooperative interaction influences both the magnitude and kinetics of force generation in skeletal muscle.
Synonyms
creation, causing, causation, making, engendering, spawning, production, initiation, origination, inception, occasioning, prompting, kindling, triggering, inspiration
1. 2.1 The propagation of living organisms; procreation.
  生物繁殖；生殖
  Synonyms
  procreation, reproduction, propagation, breeding, fathering, siring, engendering, spawning, creation

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin generatio(n-), from the verb generare (see generate).

词汇	generation
释义	Definition of generation in English: generation noun dʒɛnəˈreɪʃ(ə)nˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃ(ə)n 1All of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively. 总称一代人，同代人 one of his generation's finest songwriters 他那一代最优秀的歌曲作者之一。 Example sentencesExamples Despite being fêted as the greatest Shakespearean actor of his generation, he used to claim that he never understood a character until he found the right hat. The Internet and chatting have contributed to a different set of vocabulary that would cause nightmare to generations grown up in Victorian tradition. She grew up in a generation that knew all about hard work from an early age. Her name was still magic for many of the public but a new generation was growing up in the post-war period for whom she was yesterday's news. There isn't another actor in his generation who could have carried off the conflict and humour of the character with the same skill. This is a film about a generation that was growing up during wartime, a period of deterioration of all moral, social and economic values. I think a lot of the folks that I worked with at NASA were from the generation that grew up at that period of time. But as generations grow up things flip on their heads. As a gifted mimic and notorious perfectionist, she would later become the most respected female actor of her generation. So much of what has been written to date comes from an older generation that have not grown up in a digital universe, or whose exposure has been limited. The current generation of athletes has grown up in an era of doping. Not only has it contributed to the deskilling of the current generation of working age adults, it has also affected health. How can the current generation of adult Australians help our youth? He is now one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation. Shaped and moulded by the seasons, John grew up in a generation when everything had its place. For the generations that grew up during the space race, the future was very hard to predict because the present was moving so fast. They were the images a generation grew up with and each episode followed a familiar pattern: the atrocity, the grief, then anger. The next generation of young adults is already giving thought to its future family life. It's a journeyman actor's CV, not the kind that, in our fantasies, we would fashion for one of the greatest actors of a generation. Because of them, countless generations of children have grown up believing that fairies are mischievous little folk who flutter about on butterfly wings. Synonyms age, age group, peer group, cohort, stage of life 1.1 The average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, in which children grow up, become adults, and have children of their own. 一代人（通常为30年左右） the same families have lived here for generations Example sentencesExamples For generations, people have grown up with the constant message that life is good, and they have internalised it. For countless generations, children have grown up to take over the farm work, never knowing or expecting to know how to read or write. It will be generations before anything grows back in vast areas of the Park. A school yard game that's been around for generations seems to be growing in popularity and killing kids. His village had grown garlic chives for generations, but the land could not keep up with the population. Substantial urban change is generally expected to span prolonged periods: decades, generations, centuries. The trauma the abused person experienced will spread to other family members for generations. Do foods produced from today's high-yield crops have the same nutritional quality as those grown in generations past? He himself feels this comes from a generation back when members of both sides of his family were blacksmiths. He believes it could be impossible to replace the stock his family took three generations to breed and he could still be out of pocket. Our youth are growing up in a generation where motivation is a politically correct term parading as selfish bias. Eventually, over a period of many generations, the remainder of the brain capacity will be utilised. Many churches have little memorials to families who have been members for generations, or who have been particularly generous of their time and treasure. Not only are policemen getting younger, but people are living longer - ten years more on average than a generation ago. This has been my family's house for generations! Over five generations, family members have lived through the boom and bust cycles of life on the land. Even as courts have, over the past two generations, grown more dismissive of hunches, there has been a counter-revolution in the cognitive sciences. It was tended by a single family for six generations before it became part of the collection. Synonyms ages, an age, years, aeons, an aeon, a long time, an eternity British informal donkey's years, yonks 1.2 A set of members of a family regarded as a single step or stage in descent. （同一血统的）一代人 as modifier, in combination a third-generation Canadian Example sentencesExamples It descended through three generations of a family from Deans, New Jersey, and bears the names of three family members pinpricked on the frame. The book is set in the 1960s and tells the story of four generations of one family living in a rambling old house. Groups at the march ranged from union activists to medical students wearing their white coats to three generations of family members. A 26-year-old man was jailed for life and two others jailed for 18 years each for their parts in an arson attack on a house which left three generations of the same family dead. For this family, religion provides a band that connects family members across generations. The passing of a beloved relative is always sad, but there is something especially poignant about the death of the last member of a generation in a family. That dining table is a place where mom's going to prepare the Thanksgiving Dinner for two or three generations of family members and share and create memories. People recognize members of previous generations of family or local figures as well as regions, counties, and hometowns. Both were built with the aim of teaching the younger generation to love family members. Mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, family members of all generations have been lost. She is the last member of her generation of a respected family. This study found the traditional knowledge of healing and use of medicinal plants is disseminated through generations by family members. Over 50 family members from three generations crowded in for the party. As you know, there have been four generations of family members running the company, and that generational growth is what we look for. In other words, several members of different generations of the same family are affected with a higher than normal frequency. A large compound with brothers and their wives will always be bustling with family members of several generations and children of many ages. Michael was a member of an old and respected family and is the last member of his generation. Members of three generations of a family died in their car when sandwiched between the lorries. For the project, the children spoke to members of older generations, either older family members or friends to ask about how life was when they were children. She has been able to identify the condition in as many as three generations of a single family. 1.3 A group of people of similar age involved in a particular activity. a new generation of actors and directors Example sentencesExamples And what is most objected to by the new generation of human rights activists has been precisely the demand for neutrality. It will be operated by the English Golf Union and is designed to help develop the next generation of champions capable of winning on the world stage. His appearance as Hamlet at the Old Vic Theatre in London established him as one of the most talented actors of his generation, ideally suited to the great Shakespearean roles. After the political somnolence of the McCarthy era, the ban the bomb and civil rights movements awakened a new generation of young activists. Then came the rise of the anti-capitalist and anti-war movement which has galvanised a new generation of activists and enthused many others. What makes him stand out even among a generation of excellent young actors? It only scratches the surface of what will result as new methods of communication develop and future generations of users emerge. She is more concerned, however, with the new generation of Scottish actors who have gone straight to Hollywood, bypassing the Scottish stage. Subsequent versions of Linux and their source code have been freely available over the internet, attracting a new generation of software developers. The movement saw the emergence of a new generation of activists. But a new generation of young activists were drawn into politics by the struggle. The goal is to develop a new generation of soldiers using robot technology. But the anti-capitalist movement represents, above all, the entry of a new generation into political activity. At 34, she is a rising star in the first generation of private property developers in more than half a century. He's won an adoring young following, after being championed by lads' magazines and a new generation of actors. We must ensure quality care for future surgical patients by developing a new generation of perioperative nurses. Has New Zealand spawned a generation of video-game developers? He fitted so comfortably into the role of misfit that it became a template for a whole generation of actors. Against that background a new generation of activists, inspired by the global outlook of the anti-capitalist movement, is turning to ideas of mass struggle. It launched the careers of a new generation of Scottish actors. Synonyms age, age group, peer group, cohort, stage of life 1.4 A single stage in the development of a type of product or technology. （产品发展的）一代 a new generation of rear-engined sports cars 新一代后引擎跑车。 as modifier, in combination fourth-generation broadband Example sentencesExamples The Fire and Heat Materials Research Team is developing the next generation of high-performance, flame-retardant technical yarns. Chip makers are increasingly turning to collaborative projects to help reduce the growing cost of developing future generations of process technology. Development of the new generation of phones, which are more sophisticated, is thought unlikely to reduce demand for support and repairs. Three years ago it began development of its next generation large truck. We've run into a number of issues that are often cured in subsequent product generations, but that are very frustrating when initially encountered. Over the next five years, the government will develop a new generation of modern community hospitals. Menu costs arise because medical device companies often launch new products - or new generations of the same product - in rapid succession. Cancer researchers in Yorkshire have secured millions of pounds to develop a new generation of therapies to target the most common form of the disease in men. The first three generations were ablative WORM products, while the fourth is based on phase change technology. However, the machine that will be used tomorrow night for the count in the Civic Office comes from a new generation of equipment developed after the Florida fiasco. Every customer will be helping the development of a new generation of spacecraft. He notes the center is designed to evolve into a ‘more urban’ place in the next generation of development. But the program to develop a new generation of reconnaissance satellites is vastly over budget and years behind schedule. Enemies of the state are used in experiments to develop new generations of chemical and biological weapons that threaten the world. Some statistics about the regions illustrate just how big a challenge Ireland faces in the race to develop the next generation of medicines. The ordnance and explosives experts have teamed up with a de-mining company to develop the next generation of anti-land mine device. Attention must therefore be paid to all aspects of the ecosystem and to their interactions when developing future generations of supercomputers. The technical team is continually developing the next generation of technology to support testers into the future. She is now working with pharmaceutical companies to develop a new generation of drugs that may be more effective than existing ones. Along with its strong existing base in micromachining, B.C. has all the resources necessary to play a leading role in the development of the next generations of nanotechnologies. Synonyms crop, batch, wave, type, range 2mass noun The production or creation of something. 产生，发生 methods of electricity generation 发电方法。 the generation of wealth 财富的产生。 Example sentencesExamples Previously described protocols were used for isolation of mitochondria and generation of cytochrome spectra. We have greatly limited sulfur emissions from electricity generation, thereby reducing risks from acid rain. We are not allowed to use coal in our electricity generation. Renewable ‘green’ power will definitely be playing an important part in electricity generation in the years to come. Much energy will be spent making energy, such as electricity generation and the process of liquefying natural gas. Scotland's vast renewable energy sources will certainly have some direct contribution to make to electricity generation. Oil was in turn followed by gas, increasingly used for electricity generation, which brought power and light to households throughout the world. The main example I chose was the use of nuclear power for electricity generation. ‘It makes absolutely no sense to burn coal for electricity generation,’ he said. His secondary goal was to use the area as an incubator for business generation. With the higher demand last year, he said its power plants had used less natural gas in electricity generation. Patents are meant to reward the inventors but also to promote progress through the generation of useful new products. It will be the job of wind engineers to tailor designs to specific wind regimes to maximize electricity generation. One of them is the reserve electricity generation that we have already mentioned, and I am pleased that action has been taken about that. Has the Minister received any advice recently about Government planning for more electricity generation? This cooperative interaction influences both the magnitude and kinetics of force generation in skeletal muscle. I can't understand why you would question me about whether this is really for electricity generation. In the longer term, it says that there is an available resource from renewables to account for half of the UK's electricity generation. We rely very heavily on fossil fuel generation of electricity and renewable energies provides a very, very clean alternative. All are capable of intensifying oxyradical generation in vivo and depleting tissue antioxidant stores. Synonyms creation, causing, causation, making, engendering, spawning, production, initiation, origination, inception, occasioning, prompting, kindling, triggering, inspiration 2.1 The propagation of living organisms; procreation. 生物繁殖；生殖 Synonyms procreation, reproduction, propagation, breeding, fathering, siring, engendering, spawning, creation literary begetting Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin generatio(n-), from the verb generare (see generate). Definition of generation in US English: generation nounˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃ(ə)nˌjenəˈrāSH(ə)n 1All of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively. 总称一代人，同代人 one of his generation's finest songwriters 他那一代最优秀的歌曲作者之一。 Example sentencesExamples How can the current generation of adult Australians help our youth? This is a film about a generation that was growing up during wartime, a period of deterioration of all moral, social and economic values. He is now one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation. For the generations that grew up during the space race, the future was very hard to predict because the present was moving so fast. Shaped and moulded by the seasons, John grew up in a generation when everything had its place. Her name was still magic for many of the public but a new generation was growing up in the post-war period for whom she was yesterday's news. The Internet and chatting have contributed to a different set of vocabulary that would cause nightmare to generations grown up in Victorian tradition. The next generation of young adults is already giving thought to its future family life. Because of them, countless generations of children have grown up believing that fairies are mischievous little folk who flutter about on butterfly wings. The current generation of athletes has grown up in an era of doping. But as generations grow up things flip on their heads. Despite being fêted as the greatest Shakespearean actor of his generation, he used to claim that he never understood a character until he found the right hat. They were the images a generation grew up with and each episode followed a familiar pattern: the atrocity, the grief, then anger. There isn't another actor in his generation who could have carried off the conflict and humour of the character with the same skill. As a gifted mimic and notorious perfectionist, she would later become the most respected female actor of her generation. So much of what has been written to date comes from an older generation that have not grown up in a digital universe, or whose exposure has been limited. Not only has it contributed to the deskilling of the current generation of working age adults, it has also affected health. She grew up in a generation that knew all about hard work from an early age. It's a journeyman actor's CV, not the kind that, in our fantasies, we would fashion for one of the greatest actors of a generation. I think a lot of the folks that I worked with at NASA were from the generation that grew up at that period of time. Synonyms crop, batch, wave, type, range age, age group, peer group, cohort, stage of life 1.1 The average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, during which children are born and grow up, become adults, and begin to have children of their own. 一代人（通常为30年左右） Example sentencesExamples His village had grown garlic chives for generations, but the land could not keep up with the population. The trauma the abused person experienced will spread to other family members for generations. Even as courts have, over the past two generations, grown more dismissive of hunches, there has been a counter-revolution in the cognitive sciences. It was tended by a single family for six generations before it became part of the collection. Not only are policemen getting younger, but people are living longer - ten years more on average than a generation ago. Substantial urban change is generally expected to span prolonged periods: decades, generations, centuries. Over five generations, family members have lived through the boom and bust cycles of life on the land. He believes it could be impossible to replace the stock his family took three generations to breed and he could still be out of pocket. For countless generations, children have grown up to take over the farm work, never knowing or expecting to know how to read or write. Many churches have little memorials to families who have been members for generations, or who have been particularly generous of their time and treasure. He himself feels this comes from a generation back when members of both sides of his family were blacksmiths. Eventually, over a period of many generations, the remainder of the brain capacity will be utilised. It will be generations before anything grows back in vast areas of the Park. A school yard game that's been around for generations seems to be growing in popularity and killing kids. This has been my family's house for generations! Our youth are growing up in a generation where motivation is a politically correct term parading as selfish bias. For generations, people have grown up with the constant message that life is good, and they have internalised it. Do foods produced from today's high-yield crops have the same nutritional quality as those grown in generations past? Synonyms ages, an age, years, aeons, an aeon, a long time, an eternity 1.2 A set of members of a family regarded as a single step or stage in descent. （同一血统的）一代人 as modifier, in combination a third-generation Canadian Example sentencesExamples Groups at the march ranged from union activists to medical students wearing their white coats to three generations of family members. Members of three generations of a family died in their car when sandwiched between the lorries. Mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, family members of all generations have been lost. A 26-year-old man was jailed for life and two others jailed for 18 years each for their parts in an arson attack on a house which left three generations of the same family dead. The book is set in the 1960s and tells the story of four generations of one family living in a rambling old house. That dining table is a place where mom's going to prepare the Thanksgiving Dinner for two or three generations of family members and share and create memories. This study found the traditional knowledge of healing and use of medicinal plants is disseminated through generations by family members. A large compound with brothers and their wives will always be bustling with family members of several generations and children of many ages. Michael was a member of an old and respected family and is the last member of his generation. The passing of a beloved relative is always sad, but there is something especially poignant about the death of the last member of a generation in a family. Both were built with the aim of teaching the younger generation to love family members. In other words, several members of different generations of the same family are affected with a higher than normal frequency. She is the last member of her generation of a respected family. She has been able to identify the condition in as many as three generations of a single family. Over 50 family members from three generations crowded in for the party. As you know, there have been four generations of family members running the company, and that generational growth is what we look for. People recognize members of previous generations of family or local figures as well as regions, counties, and hometowns. For the project, the children spoke to members of older generations, either older family members or friends to ask about how life was when they were children. It descended through three generations of a family from Deans, New Jersey, and bears the names of three family members pinpricked on the frame. For this family, religion provides a band that connects family members across generations. 1.3 A single stage in the development of a type of product. （产品发展的）一代 a new generation of rear-engined sports cars 新一代后引擎跑车。 Example sentencesExamples The Fire and Heat Materials Research Team is developing the next generation of high-performance, flame-retardant technical yarns. Enemies of the state are used in experiments to develop new generations of chemical and biological weapons that threaten the world. Some statistics about the regions illustrate just how big a challenge Ireland faces in the race to develop the next generation of medicines. Menu costs arise because medical device companies often launch new products - or new generations of the same product - in rapid succession. The ordnance and explosives experts have teamed up with a de-mining company to develop the next generation of anti-land mine device. Along with its strong existing base in micromachining, B.C. has all the resources necessary to play a leading role in the development of the next generations of nanotechnologies. Cancer researchers in Yorkshire have secured millions of pounds to develop a new generation of therapies to target the most common form of the disease in men. But the program to develop a new generation of reconnaissance satellites is vastly over budget and years behind schedule. However, the machine that will be used tomorrow night for the count in the Civic Office comes from a new generation of equipment developed after the Florida fiasco. She is now working with pharmaceutical companies to develop a new generation of drugs that may be more effective than existing ones. Development of the new generation of phones, which are more sophisticated, is thought unlikely to reduce demand for support and repairs. Over the next five years, the government will develop a new generation of modern community hospitals. Chip makers are increasingly turning to collaborative projects to help reduce the growing cost of developing future generations of process technology. Attention must therefore be paid to all aspects of the ecosystem and to their interactions when developing future generations of supercomputers. We've run into a number of issues that are often cured in subsequent product generations, but that are very frustrating when initially encountered. He notes the center is designed to evolve into a ‘more urban’ place in the next generation of development. Every customer will be helping the development of a new generation of spacecraft. Three years ago it began development of its next generation large truck. The technical team is continually developing the next generation of technology to support testers into the future. The first three generations were ablative WORM products, while the fourth is based on phase change technology. Synonyms crop, batch, wave, type, range 2The production of something. 产生，发生 methods of electricity generation 发电方法。 the generation of wealth 财富的产生。 Example sentencesExamples Patents are meant to reward the inventors but also to promote progress through the generation of useful new products. We rely very heavily on fossil fuel generation of electricity and renewable energies provides a very, very clean alternative. It will be the job of wind engineers to tailor designs to specific wind regimes to maximize electricity generation. Much energy will be spent making energy, such as electricity generation and the process of liquefying natural gas. With the higher demand last year, he said its power plants had used less natural gas in electricity generation. Oil was in turn followed by gas, increasingly used for electricity generation, which brought power and light to households throughout the world. I can't understand why you would question me about whether this is really for electricity generation. The main example I chose was the use of nuclear power for electricity generation. One of them is the reserve electricity generation that we have already mentioned, and I am pleased that action has been taken about that. ‘It makes absolutely no sense to burn coal for electricity generation,’ he said. In the longer term, it says that there is an available resource from renewables to account for half of the UK's electricity generation. Scotland's vast renewable energy sources will certainly have some direct contribution to make to electricity generation. Has the Minister received any advice recently about Government planning for more electricity generation? His secondary goal was to use the area as an incubator for business generation. Previously described protocols were used for isolation of mitochondria and generation of cytochrome spectra. We are not allowed to use coal in our electricity generation. We have greatly limited sulfur emissions from electricity generation, thereby reducing risks from acid rain. All are capable of intensifying oxyradical generation in vivo and depleting tissue antioxidant stores. Renewable ‘green’ power will definitely be playing an important part in electricity generation in the years to come. This cooperative interaction influences both the magnitude and kinetics of force generation in skeletal muscle. Synonyms creation, causing, causation, making, engendering, spawning, production, initiation, origination, inception, occasioning, prompting, kindling, triggering, inspiration 2.1 The propagation of living organisms; procreation. 生物繁殖；生殖 Synonyms procreation, reproduction, propagation, breeding, fathering, siring, engendering, spawning, creation Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin generatio(n-), from the verb generare (see generate).
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