这个男孩就是比利•爱多尔,根据他的回忆录《自己跳舞》,“我们立刻想到这个名字可能非常适合这个新乐队,年轻的我们对未来感到渺茫,被完全误解且脱离了当下的社会和文化。我们也感觉到这个名字投射了许多可能展现我们这一代人的情感和思想的可能性。”乐队“X世代”开启了比利•爱多尔的音乐生涯。
But the name Generation X wouldn’t become associated with a wide group of people until 1991. That's the year Douglas Coupland’s Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture was released. The book became a sensation for its ability to capture early '90s culture and, although it didn’t coin the words, helped popularize a range of terms as diverse as McJob and pamphleting—and a name for an entire generation.
但直到1991,“X世代”才与一个广泛群体联系到一起。那一年,道格拉斯•柯普兰的《X世代:速成文化的故事》出版了。这本书因充分展现了20世纪90年代早期的文化而轰动一时,尽管“X世代”这个词不是它的发明,但这本书让各种各样的表述流行起来,例如McJob(普通乏味而又低薪的工作),pamphleting(短论)和对一代人的称呼“X世代”。
MILLENNIALS 千禧一代 (1981-1996)
What comes after Generation X? Generation Y, obviously. That was the logic behind several newspaper columns that proclaimed the coming of Generation Y in the early '90s. But as psychologist Jean Twenge explained to NPR regarding the failure of “baby busters” as a term to describe Generation X, “Labels that derive from the previous generation don't tend to stick.”
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