名词

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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