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一代
Generation
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
一个作家应该为他那一代的青年、下一代的评论家和后世的校长写作。
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
对“最伟大的一代”和随后出版的书的回应是我一生中最令人满意的经历之一。
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
我得出的结论是，在我们这一代中，没有人像我们应该或我们的祖先那样对罪感到内疚。
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
每一代人都认为自己比前一代人更聪明，比后一代人更聪明。
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
我认为我们这一代人创造的最美妙的事情之一就是我们可以说，‘嘿，我不喜欢白人。’
You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.
你想教下一代，让他们学得更快，学得更多，一切都变得更好。
In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.
再过几代人，地球上可能就没有动物生存的空间了:不再需要它们，也不再容忍它们。
I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.
我听过很多关于我们这一代人的负面言论，说我们是懒虫和年轻的守旧者，我知道我认识的人都不是这样。
This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
这可能是第一代儿童比他们的父母死得更早，这主要与肥胖问题有关。
Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.
每一代人都以地球为受托人。我们应该把我们消耗殆尽的森林和果园留给子孙后代。
This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.
这一代人应该娱乐这一代人。只有公平的。当我还是个孩子的时候，我修剪草坪。现在，别人的孩子可以割草坪了。
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction "If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."
我们，面对下一个世纪的一代人，可以加上一句庄严的训诫:“如果我们不做不可能的事，我们将面临无法想象的事。”
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From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
从一代到下一代，披头士将永远是最重要的摇滚乐队。
The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.
整个懒散的一代完全不适用于我们的音乐。
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
历史的概念本身就意味着学者和读者。如果没有一代文明人来研究历史，保存历史记录，吸取历史教训，并把它们与自身的问题联系起来，历史也将失去其意义。
I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.
我倾向于写不止一代人的故事，因为小时候我接触过不止一代人;和老年人在一起很正常。
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.
我们花了很长时间才发现我们被父母那一代欺骗了。我们父母那代人遵循的道德规范基本上是武断的。这导致了两代人之间的裂痕，这是由垮掉的一代带来的。