Generation
[dʒenə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or ['dʒɛnə'reʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production.
(noun.) the production of heat or electricity; 'dams were built for the generation of electricity'.
(noun.) group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent.
(noun.) the normal time between successive generations; 'they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade'.
(noun.) a stage of technological development or innovation; 'the third generation of computers'.
校對:伦道夫--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
(n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.
(n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.
(n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.
(n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
(n.) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
(n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
整理:皮尔斯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Procreation.[2]. Production, formation.[3]. Progeny, offspring, succession of descendants.[4]. Family, stock, race, breed.
巴顿整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Age, period, era, epoch, lifetime, offspring, stock, race, origination, breed,progeny, formation
ANT:Perpetuity, eternity, immortality
艾维斯編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- If for a generation or so machinery has had to wait its turn in the mine, it is simply because for a time men were cheaper than machinery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In a generation or two, education, emigration, improvements in agriculture and manufactures, may have provided the solution. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- They are not examples to be followed by us; for the use of language ought in every generation to become clearer and clearer. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- As is well known to the wise in their generation, traffic in Shares is the one thing to have to do with in this world. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Everything he says will seem wonderful to their short lived generation. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I had always been his favorite among the younger generation of Carters and so I hastened to comply with his demand. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- They have not done till this generation; but I feel as if it were my vocation to turn out a new variety of the Yorke species. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In the case of most animals the new generation is on trial in a year or less. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- I have altogether perished from the remembrance of the living, and in the next generation my place was a blank. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Hence very few of the original species will have transmitted offspring to the fourteen-thousandth generation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The poorness of the pasture had, in his opinion, occasioned the degradation of their cattle, which degenerated sensibly from me generation to another. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The achievements accumulated from generation to generation are deposited in it even though some of them have fallen temporarily out of use. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The growth of steam navigation during the present generation has been wonderfully rapid. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- And this was not a couple of generations after the hosts of Xerxes had crossed the Hellespont! 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- But other generations will arise, and ever and for ever will continue, to be made happier by our present acts, to be glorified by our valour. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The Hindu priest is a part of the family life of his flock, between whom and himself the tie has existed for many generations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The variability, however, in the successive generations of mongrels is, perhaps, greater than in hybrids. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- That sort of mutual friction might go on for many generations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- All savage and primitive peoples of to-day, on the contrary, are soaked in tradition--the tradition of thousands of generations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- For many precious generations the new-lit fires of the human intelligence were to be seriously banked down by this by-product. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Still, the fame of being spoken of by succeeding generations. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I however learned from it that I was the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Thus we have seen how the birth of ideas of former generations has given rise in the present age to children of a larger growth. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- For generations they were blacksmiths and husbandmen. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
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