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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then fell Alcathous son of noble Aesyetes; he was son-in-law to Anchises, having married his eldest daughter Hippodameia, who was the darling of her father and mother, and excelled all her generation in beauty, accomplishments, and under-standing, wherefore the bravest man in all Troy had taken her to wife him did Neptune lay low by the hand of Idome-neus, blinding his bright eyes and binding his strong limbs in fetters so that he could neither go back nor to one side, but stood stock still like pillar or lofty tree when Idome-neus struck him with a spear in the middle of his chest.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For myself, I conclude the Bumppos could shoot, for I have a natural turn with a rifle, which must have been handed down from generation to generation, as, our holy commandments tell us, all good and evil gifts are bestowed; though I should be loath to answer for other people in such a matter.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If each generation die and leave ghosts, he argued, the world at last will get overcrowded with them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bingley intended it likewise, and sometimes made choice of his county; but as he was now provided with a good house and the liberty of a manor, it was doubtful to many of those who best knew the easiness of his temper, whether he might not spend the remainder of his days at Netherfield, and leave the next generation to purchase.
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