generation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 产生， 发生； 一代(人)，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An old, old man and woman, with their chil-dren and their children's children, and another generation beyond that, all decked out gaily in their holiday attire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have altogether perished from the re-membrance of the living, and in the next generation my place was a blank.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- O Lord, our God, who hast poured down the blessings of Thy Truth according to Thy Holy Covenant upon Thy chosen servants, our fathers, from generation to generation, bless Thy servants Konstantin and Ekaterina, and make their troth fast in faith, and union of hearts, and truth, and love...." Levin felt more and more that all his ideas of marriage, all his dreams of how he would order his life, were mere childishness, and that it was something he had not understood hitherto, and now understood less than ever, though it was being performed upon him.
-- "That's the new generation of nobility."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He sought their chemistry, the laws of their existence and destruction, basic laws for the most part unknown after a generation of busy biologists.
-- Ross McGurk was at the time a man of fifty-four, second generation of California railroad men; a graduate of Yale; big, suave, dignified, cheerful, unscrupulous.
-- You must pity, oh, so much the generation after generation yet to come that you can refuse to let yourself indulge in pity for the men you will see dying.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The game of prisoner's base, which not so long ago seemed to enjoy a perennial vitality in front of the worn-out stocks, may, so far as I can say, be entirely unknown to the rising generation of schoolboys there.
-- For these the indispensable conditions of existence are attachment to the soil of one particular spot by generation after generation.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After days and nights of incredible labour and fa-tigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mr. O'Hara," called Ellen as she saw the two coming up the driveway Ellen belonged to a generation that wasformal even after seventeen years of wedlock and the bearing of six children "Mr. O'Hara, there is illness at theSlattery house.
-- True, they had lived in Georgia for seventyyears and, before that, had spent a generation in the Carolinas; but the first of the family who set foot on Americanshores had come from Ulster, and that was enough for Gerald.
-- On both their mother's and their father's side they were Georgians, north Georgians,only a generation away from pioneers.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In answer to which I assured his honour, 'that in all points out of their own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning, and equally 317disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profes-sion.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Look how this ha growen an' growen, sir, bigger an' bigger, broader an' broader, harder an' harder, fro year to year, fro generation unto generation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The generation of reptiles then reigned supreme upon the earth.
-- We advanced with great difficulty over the broken masses of granite mixed with flint, quartz, and alluvial deposits, when a large field, more even than a field, a plain of bones, appeared suddenly before our eyes!It looked like an immense cemetery, where generation after generation had mingled their mortal dust.
-- No human being could by any possibility have existed in that subterranean world!No generation of men could inhabit the lower caverns of the globe without taking note of those who peopled the surface, without communication with them.
-- However unlikely it may be, it might have been a monkey--but a man, a living man, and with him a whole generation of gigantic animals, buried in the entrails of the earth--it was too monstrous to be believed!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed so old...endlessly old, built up of layers of disillusion, going down in him generation after generation, like geological strata; and at the same time he was forlorn like a child.
-- The younger generation were utterly unconscious of the old England.
-- Prigs!A generation of ladylike prigs with half a ball each ' Connie laughed.
-- I tell you, every generation breeds a more rabbity generation, with india rubber tubing for guts and tin legs and tin faces.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His words were remembered and repeated; and tradition afterwards handed down from generation to generation a Marshalsea generation might be calculated as about three months that the shabby old debtor with the soft manner and the white hair, was the Father of the Marshalsea.
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