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generation

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n. 一代；产生；一代人；生殖

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After that, survey respondents disagree over whether this generation will follow in their parents' footsteps, moving to the suburbs to raise families, or will choose to remain in the city center.

Whereas older generations are sometimes reluctant to adopt new technologies, driverless cars promise real value to these age groups in particular.

In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did notThe fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.

Thanks in part to video games, the generation now entering the workforce is especially open to the idea of having their work gamified.

Isn't this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking? And isn't this the generation who say they're concerned about their health and the well-being of the planet? If these are truly the values of many young people, then their behavior doesn't match their beliefs.

As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers.

They weren't looking for cured meats, organic produce or beautiful presentation; they were looking for whatever they could get their hands on, and this prioritisation of quantity over quality prevailed for decades, meaning a generation was brought up with food that couldn't compete with neighbouring France, Italy, Belgium or Spain.

A new batch of young women—members of the so-called millennial (千禧的) generation—has been entering the workforce for the past decade.

According to recent studies, digital divide has been caused by three major 32 elements: class, sex, and generation .

And isn't this the generation who say they're concerned about their health and the well-being of the planet?

Known for low-priced general goods, Woolworths has struggled in the face of competition from supermarkets expanding beyond groceries and a new generation of internet retailers.

The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation, familiar with personal computers and the Internet, and the older generation, accustomed to an industrial society.

They catered to the taste of the younger generation.

Failure to address comprehensively the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, however, exposes all generations, present and future, to incalculable risks.

Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.

Addressing differences in the earliest years, it seems, could reduce inequality in the next generation.

Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college? You’ll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying.

Results of USA WEEKEND's Teens & Parents survey reveal a generation of young people who get along well with their parents and approve of the way they're being raised.

It has remained basically unchanged for generations.

It has brought up generations of responsible citizens.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced—not just in this generation but in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

How much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past? A mere generation ago, parentchild relations were described as the generation gap.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

The theory is that smoking should be stripped of any appeal to discourage new generations from starting in the first place.

And it is clearly up to the current generation of leaders from high-emitting nations to decide whether they want to be remembered as climate change tyrants or pioneers.

The major components of our energy systems, such as fuel production, refining, electrical generation and distribution, are costly installation that have lengthy life spans.

First generation college students tend to have much heavier financial burdens than their peers.

A mere generation ago, parent-child relations were described as "the generation gap".

I don't know what will happen to the next generation.

Or do they face more challenges than any previous generation?

So it looks as though self-control is something that in one generation can disadvantage the next generation.

You know, they were often victims of a generation firmly convinced that the woman's place was in the home.

As a third generation native of Brownsville, Texas, mildred Garza never pleased move away.

For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control; guidance and support needed help from people of the same age and from within.

Join us as actress Tina Chen recounts the fascinating story of three generations of her mother's family and their contributions to the history of China.

Now, through the two organizations that he has founded--the digital himalaya project and the world oral literature project--Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, for the world available not just to scholars but to the younger generation.

Our generation once joined hands and stood firm at times of national emergency.

Over five generations the land has been too wet for cropping.

Previous generations concentrated on getting children to school on time, fed, dressed and ready to learn.

The Jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.

The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago.

Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ans working together.

Today all three generations regard the move to a success, giving them a closer relationship than they would have had in separate cities.

We are fortunate that is it, because new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.

This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents.

The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business–friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation.

For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit.

Millennials, it seems, face the paradox of being the least formal generation yet the most conscious of style and personal branding.

His analysis should therefore end any self-contentedness among those who may believe that the global position of English is so stable that the young generation of the United Kingdom do not need additional language capabilities.

According to the career counselors and expert who study them, Generation Zs are clear-eyed, economic pragmatists.

Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults.

But that message did not play well with many in Iowa, where wind turbines dot the fields and provide 36 percent of the state's electricity generation – and where tech giants like Microsoft are being attracted by the availability of clean energy to power t

Despite attempts by the Church to strong-arm this new generation of logicians and rationalists, more explanations for how the universe functioned were being made, and at a rate that the people-including the Church -could no longer ignore.

first generation was defined as not having a parent with a four-year college degree.

If "entitled" is the most common adjective, fairly or not, applied to millennials those born between 1981 and 1995, the catchwords for Generation Z are practical and cautious.

millennials, it seems, face the paradox of being the least formal generation yet the most conscious of style and personal branding.

Now that members of Generation Z are graduating college this spring the most commonly-accepted definition says this generation was born after 1995, give or take a year-the attention has been rising steadily in recent weeks.

We are all becoming increasingly aware of the importance of modeling tolerance and patience for the younger generation.