◎ 單詞釋義

n.代；（產品類型的）代；產生；繁殖

形容詞: generational

代，世代

一代

一代人，同時代的人，同代人

產生，發生，衍生

一代事物

生殖，繁殖，繁育

同輩人

一輩（通常認為大約 30 年）

一屆（從事特定活動的同齡人）

n.(名詞)

[C]同時代的人,一代,一代人 all people of the same age; a period of time in which a human being can grow up and have a family; all members of any developing class of things at a certain stage

[U]產生,發生 the act or action of generating

noun

1. the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

Synonym: multiplicationpropagation

2. the production of heat or electricity

e.g. dams were built for the generation of electricity

3. a coming into being

Synonym: genesis

4. group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

5. all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

Synonym: coevalscontemporaries

6. the normal time between successive generations

e.g. they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade

7. a stage of technological development or innovation

e.g. the third generation of computers

1. （尤指經歷或觀點相同的）一代人，同代人，同輩人
A generation is all the people in a group or country who are of a similar age, especially when they are considered as having the same experiences or attitudes.

generation的解釋

e.g. ...the younger generation of Party members...
年輕一代的黨員
e.g. David Mamet has long been considered the leading American playwright of his generation.
長期以來，戴維·馬梅特一直被視為同代人中最杰出的美國劇作家。

2. 代，一代，一輩（通常認為大約是30年）
A generation is the period of time, usually considered to be about thirty years, that it takes for children to grow up and become adults and have children of their own.

e.g. Within a generation flight has become the method used by many travellers.
就在不到一代人的時間里，坐飛機已經成了很多旅行者的出行方式。

3. （機械設備的設計和制造的）代
You can use generation to refer to a stage of development in the design and manufacture of machines or equipment.

e.g. ...a new generation of IBM/Apple computers.
新一代的IBM/蘋果電腦

4. （表示家庭成員擁有某國國籍的時間長短情況）第…代的
Generation is used to indicate how long members of your family have had a particular nationality. For example, second generation means that you were born in the country you live in, but your parents were not.

e.g. ...second generation Asians in Britain...
英國的第二代亞洲移民
e.g. She is a first generation American.
她是第一代美國移民。

5. （能源的）產生
Generation is also the production of a form of energy or power from fuel or another source of power such as water.

generation的反義詞

e.g. Japan has announced plans for a sharp rise in its nuclear power generation.
日本宣布了大幅增加核能發電的計劃。

n.(名詞)

generation的意思是“同時代的人,一代,一代人”,為可數名詞,可用于復數形式,也可加不定冠詞a修飾。

generation還有“產生,發生,繁殖(后代)”的意思,主要指發電,產生熱等,這時是不可數名詞。

n.(名詞)

generation, age, period

這三個詞的共同意思是“時期”。其區別是：

period是這組詞中最一般的常用術語,用于任何時限,時間可長可短; age意為“時代,壽命”,常用來表示以一個中心人物或顯著特征而聞名的時期; generation意為“代、世代”,用于上輩出世與下輩出世之間的時段,對人類來說這段時間有時可算作20年或25年,也可用于下輩本身。例如:

The period in which people learnt to make tools of iron is called the Iron Age.人類學會用鐵制造工具的時代,我們稱為“鐵器時代”。

My generation behaves differently from my father's and grandfather's.我這一代人和我父輩及祖輩表現不同。

以上就是本站詳細整理的詞語generation是什么意思的翻譯解釋，供大家參考一下。