这部小说准确地传达了一代人的感情和思想。

The story captured the hearts and minds of a generation.

《牛津词典》

我们很可能是感到去电影院看电影很神奇的最后一代人。

Ours could well be the last generation for which moviegoing has a sense of magic.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

20世纪60年代，吉米·亨德里克斯演奏电吉他的精湛技巧激发了一代人的热情。

In the 1960s, the electric guitar virtuosity of Jimi Hendrix inspired a generation.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I think it's also the struggle of a generation trying to enrich the public square with positive conversation about religion.

我认为这也是我们这一代人的努力,我们试图通过积极地谈论宗教,来丰富社会生活。

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But nevertheless, let's just go with this for a minute, and if we suppose that it took about a generation to enter the land so you see, I've done the math on the side here.

无论如何，我们还是要稍微讨论一下，假设，进入这块土地要一代人的努力,你看，我已经在这边做了算术。

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What is culinary in one generation for example, the devices of crime fiction prior to the work of Dostoyevsky, become absolutely central.

一代人的口味,比如说，陀思妥耶夫斯基前,犯罪小说中常用的表现手法，曾经是绝对主流。

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