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

• 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。
• The Beat Generation and the Revolution of Consciousness
  垮掉派与意识革命
• A Cross-cultural Study: the Beat Generation and Zen Buddhism
  跨文化个案研究&垮掉的一代与佛禅
• Tom: Why called they the Beat Generation?
  为什么称呼他们为垮掉的一代？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• If Kerouac is the beat generation's saint, Ginsberg is certainly their poet laureate.
  如果凯鲁亚克是垮掉的一代中的圣人，那么金斯堡当然就是他们中的桂冠诗人。