| 单词 | baby boom generation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbaby boom generation baby boom generation n. the generation of people born between the mid 1940s and the mid 1960s, following the Second World War (1939–45). Cf. baby boomer n.The oldest of the baby boom generation came of age in the 1960s and are associated with the counterculture of that period, the civil and women's rights movements, and the sexual revolution. However, the cohort has often been characterized by subsequent generations as financially privileged and advantaged, having grown up in an era of relative economic affluence (in the West), and having been the beneficiaries of widespread government subsidies and welfare programmes. ΚΠ 1957 Duplin Times (Kenansville, N. Carolina) 28 Mar. Educators have been painting a gloomy picture of the disaster which was about to befall them when the ‘baby boom’ generation swamped school plants. 1991 D. Coupland Generation X i. iv. 21 Envy of material wealth and long-range material security accrued by older members of the baby boom generation by virtue of fortunate births. 2013 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 July 25 The baby-boom generation is much maligned, not least for pricing its children and grandchildren out of the housing market. < as lemmas |
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