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 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。
• 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。
• Bob: Have you heard of The Beat Generation?
  你听说过垮掉的一代吗？
• 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。
• He is a member of beat generation.
  他是个颓废派的成员。
• 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。
• "The Beat Generation" is a successor and grower of this tradition, the school's behavior and writing signify an intense revolution of consciousness.
  垮掉派是这种传统的继承者和发展者，他们的行为和创作具有强烈的意识革命含义。
• The novel is largely an autobiographic description of the travel experience of Sal Paradise and his friend Dean Moriarty, which faithfully reflects the living status of the Beat Generation.
  小说以自传体的形式生动描述了萨尔·帕拉迪斯和他的好朋友迪安·莫里亚蒂驾车横贯美国大陆的经历，真实地反映了垮掉的一代的生活状态。
• 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。