一代人

This is a country that has gone from isolation and abject poverty to financial prosperity rivalling other great nations of the world in a period of less than a human lifespan.

在这短短的不到一代人的时间里，中国从一个被西方世界孤立的，及其贫穷的国家发展成为一个经济繁荣，人民富足，能够与其他发达国家媲美的国家。

But health spending has rocketed over the past generation to about seventeen percent of the economy.

但是过去一代人的医疗开销猛增，约占经济的17%。

Although he romps about in the illusory realms of fashion or the border regions of human sexuality , his photographs reveal the complex appearance of the world in a much more authentic way than the products of " documentary " photography ordinarily do .

这是他所生活的一代人的文化素质完全不具备的。马斯滕出生于1963年的德国，然而他的审美营养则来自意大利的风格主义流派的影响，一些大师级的人物成为他的精神教父。

The Pittsburgh of the Maxson family is a town where Troy and other men of his generation fled from the savage conditions of sharecropping in the south.

匹兹堡的Maxson家庭是一个城市在特洛伊和其他男人的那一代人逃离野蛮条件佃农在南部。

Make no mistake: Each generation's preferences are spurring unique restaurant design trends of their own.

别搞错，每一代人的喜好都会激发独特的属于他们自己的设计潮流。

Their children must slog on towards an infinitely receding retirement age, squirrelling away money for their meagre defined-contribution pensions as a growing proportion of state spending is devoted to the needs of a massive generation of the elderly.

他们的子女必须在无限地飞驰向退休年龄的途中苦苦挣扎，当国家给大量年老的一代人的日常需求的支出比例越来越大时，他们就要为了那点微薄的所谓的贡献养老金钱而存钱。

It's kind of interested in subverting a lot of assumptions of what people that age are supposed to be like; in that way it's more honest of what people are like.

很有趣的是，这颠覆了许多其他人对这一代人的想象：利用这种表现方式更真诚的表现了人们本来的样子。

As the baby boomer generation ages and feels increasing twinges of back pain riding on the dropped handlebars of road bikes, expect to see more and more lowrider and recumbent bikes alike.

随著婴儿潮一代人的年龄和增加刺痛的感觉背部疼痛骑摩托车在车把道路下降自行车，希望看到越来越多的lowrider和卧位自行车一样。

Watercolours are rudiments of our gen-eration and I still like them.

水彩是我们这一代人绘画的起步，以后我也一直很喜欢。

Wang Jin, whose work is currently on show at Friedman Benda gallery in New York, explains that "every generation wants to create its own image of a new China".

中国艺术家王晋解释道，&每一代人都想塑造自己心目中的新中国形象&。

It seems likely that Kraft will return with a better offer.

看起来卡夫要重新考虑一个更好的出价了。

But he'd rather burn off my feelers and watch me squirm.

可他却放任那个家伙对我为所欲为！