Think of one big wave of people who were all 'brought forth' into the world at about the same time, and who move through life side by side — the children together, then the parents together, then the together. The word grows out of the idea of 'bringing forth / producing', so a generation is really one batch that was produced at the same moment in time.
From the word’s history
From Latin generare 'to bring forth, beget, produce' (from genus 'kind, race'). The act of bringing-forth is the seed: those brought forth together are one generation; the producing itself survives in 'power generation'.
源自拉丁文 generare「生出、孕育、製造」（出自 genus「種類、血統」）。「帶出來、生出來」這個動作是種子：同時被生出來的一批人就是一個 generation；而「生產」這個動作本身則保留在「發電（power generation）」裡。
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原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
generationnoun/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
- 1
The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
- The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations […]
- 2
The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
- So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.
- Generation by Copulation (certainly) extendeth not to Plants.
- 3
dialectalRace, family; breed.
- Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?
- 4
A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
- This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
- Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
- 5
obsoleteDescendants, progeny; offspring.
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The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
- Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, two generations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s.
- 7
A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
- The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success.
- 8
geometrymathematicssciencesThe formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
- the generation of a line or curve
另外 4 個記錄的用法
- 9
A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.
- 10
A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.
- 11
broadcastingmediatelevisionA copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
- With one-inch C format or half-inch Betacam used in the component mode, quality loss through additional generations is not such a problem. In this situation, it would be usual to make the necessary alterations while re-recording onto a third generation master […]
- Each generation away from the original or master produces increased degradation in the image quality.
- 12
cellular-automatacomputingengineeringA single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
- It runs for 17331 generations before stabilizing as 136 blinkers, 109 blocks, 65 beehives, 18 loaves, 18 boats, 7 ships, 4 tubs, 3 ponds, 2 toads, and 40 gliders.
- The glider is fast--it moves 2 cells every 3 generations. There is also a spinning thing (sixty degrees every 21 generations)
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