汉语中用80后、90后、00后指在某一时期出生的人群,英语中也有这样的词汇,例如,Millennials指1981-1996年间出生的人,Generation X指1965-1980年间出生的人。你知道这些称呼是怎么来的吗?
BABY BOOMERS“婴儿潮一代” (1946-1964)
Calling a dramatic increase in the number of children born a “baby boom” dates to the 19th century. In 1941, an issue of LIFE Magazine—discussing the increasing birthrate due to older couples having children after the Great Depression and the many marriages that came about because of the peacetime draft of 1940—proclaimed that “the US baby boom is bad news for Hitler.”
“婴儿潮”指出生人口急剧增加,这种说法可以追溯到19世纪。1941年,《生活》杂志的一篇文章称,“美国婴儿潮对希特勒来说是坏消息。”这篇文章谈到,年长夫妇在大萧条后生育子女以及1940年的和平草案后许多人成婚,导致出生率上升。
The children who would come to be known as Baby Boomers, however, wouldn’t be born for a few more years as soldiers returned home from the war and the economy “boomed.”
然而,又过了几年,等战争结束士兵们返回家园,经济开始“繁荣”后,那些被称为“婴儿潮一代”的孩子才出生。
Although the children born from 1946 to 1964 get the name Baby Boomers, that phrase wouldn’t appear until near the end of the generation. In January 1963 the Newport News Daily Press warned of a tidal wave of college enrollment coming as the “Baby Boomers” were growing up.
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