beat generation

英 [biːt ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃn]

美 [biːt ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃn]

n.  垮掉的一代(指20世纪50年代和60年代初期拒绝主流生活方式、追求个性自我表现、欣赏现代爵士乐的一批年轻人)

牛津词典

noun

• 垮掉的一代（指20世纪50年代和60年代初期拒绝主流生活方式、追求个性自我表现、欣赏现代爵士乐的一批年轻人）
  a group of young people in the 1950s and early 1960s who rejected the way most people lived in society, wanted to express themselves freely, and liked modern jazz

英英释义

noun

• a United States youth subculture of the 1950s
  Synonym:beatsbeatniks

双语例句

• There was a time when people loved to carp and cavil at the post-1980s generation, either referring to them as the "beat generation" or claiming they were wet behind the ears.
  曾几何时，人们还对“80后”评头论足，或感叹他们是“垮掉的一代”，或认为他们很嫩很青涩。
• In the essay, the author mainly discusses the historic reasons causing the formations of "the Lost Generation" and "the Beat Generation", compares the two generations of writers 'experiences and attitudes toward life, the themes of their works and their writing techniques.
  本文将主要探讨迷惘的一代与垮掉的一代形成的历史原因、比较两代作家的经历和人生态度、作品主题和创作手法。
• With a unique and distinctive brand character based on the background of certain time, "after 80" had been widely criticized as the "Beat Generation", which is described as the ideals lost, beliefs shaken, the value alienated and moral decline.
  带着特有的时代烙印和鲜明的性格特征，80后曾被广泛批评为理想失落、信仰动摇、价值异化和道德滑坡的垮掉的一代。
• The English version of Han Shan poems together with new Han Shan image is greatly acclaimed by two generations of the young Americans, namely the "Beat Generation" and "hippies".
  寒山诗歌及寒山形象受到垮掉一代和嬉皮士两代美国少年的追捧。
• That question, posed by Jack Kerouac on behalf of the Beat generation half a century ago, is the biggest uncertainty hanging over the world economy.
  这是五十年前颓废派的代表，杰克凯鲁亚克的疑问；也是如今困扰全世界经济的一个悬念。
• Long before the Beat generation made "on the road" expeditions popular, the circus personified the experience and offered many young Americans the dream of adventure, reinvention, and excitement.
  在披头士一代“在路”使远征普遍之前，马戏成经验典型并且提供了许多年轻美国人冒险、重新发明和兴奋梦想。
• The Beat Generation was influenced by American traditional culture, literature, writer and society.
  垮掉的一代受到了美国传统文化、文学创作及有关作家和社会的影响。
• He is a member of beat generation.
  他是个颓废派的成员。
• The beat generation "couldn't care less" what happens.
  垮了的一代对发生的一切并不是毫不关心。
• On the Road, the representative work of Jack Kerouac and the "Bible of the Beat Generation," recorded the unruly and uninhibited life of the Beats.
  杰克·凯鲁亚克的代表作，垮掉派的圣经《在路上》记录了垮掉一代的不羁生活。