Generation X

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˌdʒɛnəɹeɪʃn̩ ˈɛks/    美 /ˌdʒɛnəˌɹeɪʃən ˈɛks/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A generation of people whose future is uncertain; a lost generation. Australia,Ireland,New-Zealand,UK,US
    — When historians evaluate the contribution of Generation X one theme will recur over and over again, and that is the rage and revulsion handed from Father to Son.
  2. The generation of people born after the baby boom that followed World War II, especially those born from the mid 1960s to early 1980s, sometimes characterized as cynical, disaffected, lacking direction in life, and unwilling to take part fully in society. Australia,Ireland,New-Zealand,UK,US
    — Any self-respecting Generation Xer […] might notice that Mr. [Douglas] Coupland's death knell for Generation X coincides with the promotion of his latest book, “Microserfs” (HarperCollins)

词形变化

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词源

Compound of generation + X (used to represent an unknown quantity or unknown value). Sense 2 (“the post-baby boom generation”) was popularized by the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by the Canadian author and artist Douglas Coupland (born 1961).
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