单词 | generation gap |
释义 | > as lemmasgeneration gap generation gap n. a difference of attitudes and values between people of different generations, esp. parents and children, leading to a lack of understanding; cf. gap n.1 6a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [noun] > instance of lock1563 incomprehensibility1651 inscrutables1665 incomprehensible1678 inconceivable1706 I know not what1711 unknowable1725 unsearchable1725 indefinable1810 a sealed book1814 unknowable1816 unintelligible1838 inconceivability1851 imponderable1855 inscrutablenessa1864 unfathomability1867 unthinkable1871 closed book1913 intangible1914 imponderabilia1925 generation gap1962 1962 Daily Record (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 28 July 6/1 (headline) Generation gap affects parent-child relations. 1969 W. Garner Us or Them War xxi. 167 He said, ‘Patti, whatever becomes of the generation gap?’ She said, ‘I jumped across.’ 1979 Harrowsmith Aug. 9/2 I don't know what ‘eco-chic’ means (it must be the generation gap again). 2003 J. Gamble Shanghai in Transition i. 58 A distinctive youth culture along with a generation gap has emerged in Shanghai. < as lemmas |
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