Generation

(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'.

校对:伦道夫

• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In a generation or two, education, emigration, improvements in agriculture and manufactures, may have provided the solution. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• They are not examples to be followed by us; for the use of language ought in every generation to become clearer and clearer. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Everything he says will seem wonderful to their short lived generation. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I had always been his favorite among the younger generation of Carters and so I hastened to comply with his demand. 埃德加·赖斯·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. 雪莉.
• In the case of most animals the new generation is on trial in a year or less. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I have altogether perished from the remembrance of the living, and in the next generation my place was a blank. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Hence very few of the original species will have transmitted offspring to the fourteen-thousandth generation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The poorness of the pasture had, in his opinion, occasioned the degradation of their cattle, which degenerated sensibly from me generation to another. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The achievements accumulated from generation to generation are deposited in it even though some of them have fallen temporarily out of use. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The growth of steam navigation during the present generation has been wonderfully rapid. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• 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. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• And this was not a couple of generations after the hosts of Xerxes had crossed the Hellespont! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The variability, however, in the successive generations of mongrels is, perhaps, greater than in hybrids. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• That sort of mutual friction might go on for many generations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• All savage and primitive peoples of to-day, on the contrary, are soaked in tradition--the tradition of thousands of generations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Still, the fame of being spoken of by succeeding generations. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I however learned from it that I was the youngest son of the youngest son for five generations back. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• 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. 世纪发明.
• For generations they were blacksmiths and husbandmen. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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