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1·Family photos spanning five generations were stolen.

一家五代人的照片失窃了。《牛津词典》

2·How can we best serve the needs of future generations?

我们怎样才最能满足后代子孙的需要？《牛津词典》

3·The play represents the collision of three generations.

该剧表现了3代人之间的冲突。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Social customs provide a vital link between generations.

社会风俗在代与代之间起到了极其重要的纽带作用。《牛津词典》

5·Strands of DNA are reproduced through succeeding generations.

DNA（脱氧核糖核酸）链通过后代得到复制。《牛津词典》

6·I often wonder what future generations will make of our efforts.

我常常想：后代将怎样评价我们所作出的努力。《牛津词典》

7·The house had belonged to her family for three or four generations.

这座房子属于她家已有三四代了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

8·The family ruled for several generations and evidently loved the trappings of power.

那个家族统治了好几代，他们显然喜爱权力带来的虚饰。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

9·While the two are only days apart in age they seem to belong to wholly different generations.

虽然这两位年龄上只有几天之差，但他们好像属于完全不同年代的人。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

10·Compared to people living only a few generations ago, we have greater opportunities to have a good time.

与生活在仅仅几代之前的人相比，我们有更大的过得快乐的机会。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

世代

1·The Mayers have been distinguished doctors for generations.

迈耶一家世代是名医。

2·Though indigenous rainforest dwellers of South America have been using rubber for generations, it was not until 1839 that rubber had its first practical application in the industrial world.

虽然南美洲土生土长的雨林居民世代使用橡胶这种东西，可是直到1839年橡胶才在工业化世界中得到了最早的实际运用。

3·But generations change, power often creates hubris, and appetites sometimes grow with eating.

但是世代变化，权力通常滋生狂妄，吃得越多胃口越大。

4·This has been happening for so many past generations.

这是过去这么多世代一直发生的事情。

5·For the first time in generations there are cows on the streets of Nairobi as nomads like Isaac come to the suburbs with their herds to feed on the verges of roads.

随着像艾萨克这样来到城郊的牧人们带着牛群到路边吃草，多个世代以来，内罗比的大街上第一次有牛群出现。

几代人

1·We shall be known better than any preceding generations.

我们将比前几代人更出名。

2·There seems to be much less difference than in previous generations.

与前几代人相比，差异似乎小得多。

3·It was found that American youngsters today don't socialize nearly as much as the earlier generations.

研究发现，如今的美国年轻人不像前几代人那样热衷于社交活动。

4·Their loudest critics argue that the new wave of immigrants cannot, and indeed do not want to, fit in as previous generations did.

他们最激烈的批评者认为，新一波的移民不能、实际上也不想像前几代人那样融入社会。

5·Nothing is necessarily gained by forcing students to learn geometry at a graffitied desk stuck with generations of discarded chewing gum.

强迫学生在一张满是涂鸦，还粘着几代人丢弃的口香糖的桌子上学习几何知识，对于学生来说毫无益处。

(1)alternation of generations世代交替