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Change log entry 57393
Processed by: ycandau (2015-05-15 09:06:55 UTC)
Comment: << review queue entry 54694 - submitted by 'richwarm' >>
"accumulation of years"?
"passing on"?

LA J TP

for many generations:
他的家族世代精於製刀
His family worked for generations making knives and hammering iron.

福建沿海人世代以討海為生
People living on the Fujian coast have always relied on the sea for their livelihoods.

即使「銀行」不倒,台大社會系教授林萬億仍持保留態度。他指出,老人服務銀行是一種「世代持續服務」,但每一代的人口可能會有不對等的現象
Lin Wan-yi, a professor of sociology at National Taiwan University, has reservations about the service bank concept that go beyond worries that it might face a run on deposits. He points out that this is a system that "extends through generations," but each generation has unique characteristics.

The two tribes feuded with each other for generations.
这两个部族世代为敌。

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age/era:
「相聲有很多潛在人口,你想想很難碰到不喜歡相聲的人吧?因為誰不愛笑呢?」劉增鍇問道說。但是要如何發掘並培養這些潛在觀眾,如何在這五花八門的娛樂世代裡佔得一席之地,恐怕有待有志者努力。
"Comic dialogues have a huge potential audience. It's hard to encounter people who don't like comic dialogues, isn't it? Who doesn't like being amused?" comments Liu Tseng-kai. But seeking out and cultivating these potential aficionados, and securing a position in this colorful "age of entertainment" will almost certainly depend on the efforts of devotees.

我們能不能創造出屬於這個世代的京劇,以及屬於明天的傳統,也許要留待時間來證明了。
Can we create a Peking opera that will belong to our age and serve as tomorrow's tradition? Perhaps only time can tell.

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generation:
(I don't think LA and M include this sense)
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%96%E4%BB%A3

比起上一個世代,他們就多了好幾年工作已臻穩定
Compared to the previous generation, they have many more years to achieve stability in their careers before shouldering the burdens of family.

Where young people refer to themselves as @oya yubi sedai, <---[Japanese for "thumb generation"]
那里的年轻人认为他们自己是“拇指世代”,

If so, you're feeling the squeeze of the sandwich generation.
如果答案肯定,那你一定感受到三明治世代夹心饼干的压力了。

The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.
资产阶级在它的不到一百年的阶级统治中所创造的生产力,比过去一切世代创造的全部生产力还要多,还要大。

...「四分之三個世代」...
To take DRAM as an example, UMC has developed its own 0.35 micron technology and is mass-producing 16Mb DRAM chips, which one can say are only "three-quarters of a generation" behind the next goal (producing 64Mb DRAM chips at a process dimension of 0.25 microns).
Diff:
- 世代 世代 [shi4 dai4] /generation/an era/accumulation of years/passing on from generation to generation/
+ 世代 世代 [shi4 dai4] /for many generations/generation/era/age/
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