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。
• The Beat Generation and the Revolution of Consciousness
  垮掉派与意识革命
• The "Beat Generation" was the best representative for this tendency which was strongly presented in the ideas and writings of Allen Ginsberg.
  “垮掉一代”作家是这种倾向的代表，其中金斯伯格的思想和创作强烈地体现出这方面的特征。
• Bob: Have you heard of The Beat Generation?
  你听说过垮掉的一代吗？
• Tom: Why called they the Beat Generation?
  为什么称呼他们为垮掉的一代？
• 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。
• On the Road has also been regarded as the "Bible" of the "Beat Generation".
  其经典之作《在路上》亦被奉为垮掉一代的圣经。
• The third part is devoted to a survey of the philosophical and aesthetic source of the Beat Generation. The aim of this survey is American Transcendentalism and modern Existentialism.
  第三部分是对垮掉的一代的哲学，美学思想渊源的追溯，力图说明美国超验主义哲学传统与现代存在主义哲学对垮掉的一代所产生的重大影响。
• 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。
• They had taken the words of the beat generation to a new level.
  他们将垮掉一代的语言又发展到了一个新的水平。