| 单词 | lost generation |
| 释义 | Lost Generationnounthe generation of men and women who came of age during or immediately following World War I: viewed, as a result of their war experiences and the social upheaval of the time, as cynical, disillusioned, and without cultural or emotional stability. a group of American writers of this generation, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Dos Passos. Origin of Lost GenerationFirst recorded in 1925–30 Words nearby Lost Generationlost, lost and found, lost cause, Lost Colony, Los Teques, Lost Generation, lost in the shuffle, lost in thought, lost motion, lost on one, lost property Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for Lost GenerationLost Generation noun (sometimes not capitals)the large number of talented young men killed in World War I the generation of writers, esp American authors such as Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway, active after World War I Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for Lost Generationlost generation The young adults of Europe and America during World War I. They were “lost” because after the war many of them were disillusioned with the world in general and unwilling to move into a settled life. Gertrude Stein is usually credited with popularizing the expression. notes for lost generationThe characters in the book The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, are examples of the lost generation. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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