第三人称复数：generations
名词产生; 一代人; 代（约30年），时代; 生殖
名词
1. We belong to the same generation.
我们是同龄人。
2. The antiques have been handed down to them from one generation to another.
这些古董世代相传传到了他们手里。
3. Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry will spend $46 million on its Fifth Generation Computer Project this year.
日本国际贸易工业部今年将花四千六百万美元在第五代计算机计划上。
4. When did the first generation computers become obsolete?
第一代计算机是什么时候淘汰的？
5. The waterfall can be used for the generation of electricity.
这瀑布可用以发电。
1. （尤指经历或观点相同的）一代人，同代人，同辈人
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.
e.g. ...the younger generation of Party members...
年轻一代的党员
e.g. David Mamet has long been considered the leading American playwright of his generation.
长期以来，戴维·马梅特一直被视为同代人中最杰出的美国剧作家。
2. 代，一代，一辈（通常认为大约是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.
就在不到一代人的时间里，坐飞机已经成了很多旅行者的出行方式。
3. （机械设备的设计和制造的）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/苹果电脑
4. （表示家庭成员拥有某国国籍的时间长短情况）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...
英国的第二代亚洲移民
e.g. She is a first generation American.
她是第一代美国移民。
5. （能源的）产生
Generation is also the production of a form of energy or power from fuel or another source of power such as water.
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发电的计划。
1. Unlike the British man, the current generation of business people act instead of think.
2. New power generation will be necessary to buttress projected economic development, said Sun.
3. Sales are now being led by a younger generation that is willing to buy on credit and shop online.
4. Unreasonably low salaries seriously limit the buying power of the grassroots population, make jobs unattractive to the younger generation and lead to higher unemployment among youth.
5. generation的意思
5. They are called a generation of change because they dare to stand out and live by their own definition.
6. generation是什么意思
6. Attention will be given to the promotion of electricity generation by means of waste incineration and landfill gas in urban areas.
7. generation的反义词
7. Several other power generation plants have been hit by the quake, with thousands of people still missing.
8. Nuclear power will have to account for 5 percent of power generation by then, said Xiao from the Energy Research Institute.
9. generation的解释
9. Payne said whales absorb the contaminants and passed them on to the next generation when a female nurses her calf.
10. generation什么意思
10. In a bid to develop a new generation of stars for the 2012 Games, he will call up more young players to prove themselves at future training camps.
noun
1. the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
Synonym: multiplication propagation
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: coevals contemporaries
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