It's a lost generation.

他们是‘失落的一代’。

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Yes, there is a lost generation and though it may be a young generation in a lot of ways there is another generation that remains just as lost, it is the elderly.

确实有一代人是失落的一代，并且他们体现在许多方面，然而还有另外一代人，那就是老年人。

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This generation has lost a lot of its wide-eyed innocence.

这代人已经失去了许多单纯和天真的品质。

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Newspapers have lost millions of readers as a new generation has grown up.

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Is Europe willing to be home to a lost generation in the name of European solidarity?

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We need to avoid a lost generation of young people who will be playing economic catch-up their whole lives.

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The Atlantic fretted they might become a lost generation, unable to ever truly find their feet on the corporate ladder.

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