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单词 beat generation
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Definition of beat generation in English:

beat generation

noun
  • A movement of young people in the 1950s and early 1960s who rejected conventional society, valuing free self-expression and favouring modern jazz. Among writers associated with the movement were Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

    垮掉的一代(指20世纪50年代和60年初期摈弃传统社会、重视自由的自我表现并喜爱现代爵士音乐的西方年轻人所掀起的运动,与此有关的作家有杰克·凯鲁亚克和艾伦·金斯伯格)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For us the beat generation of the 60s was legendary.
    • He said that he also knew the name Ram Dass only in association with ‘Be Here Now ‘- which he found when he was ‘into the beat generation.’
    • The father of flower power, the icon of the beat generation, an early champion of gay rights - Allen Ginsberg was all these and yet never dated.
    • Brinkmann's breathless speaking takes up the ‘howl’ of the beat generation, his lust for the loud is like concrete poetry.
    • He followed that with Young Adam - starring Ewan McGregor - an authentic adaptation of beat generation writer Alexander Trocchi's novel about a drifter.
    • My father was cool about it, which makes sense: he's cool, in the beret-wearing beat generation way.
    • In fact, Breathing Fire 2 takes a look at the engaging Canadian voices of poets born in 1970s, the decade that followed the beret-clad beat generation.
    • The Guevara of ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ is a poetic presence, a kindred spirit of the beat generation.
    • There's the association of ‘women of the beat generation,’ which is a retrospective grouping.
    • She was drawn to the script principally because of Trocchi, considered by some to be Britain's only true writer of the beat generation.
    • The word ‘Beat’ comes from an offhand remark made by Kerouac, who called himself and his postwar peers ‘a beat generation,’ meaning down-and-out, or ‘finished.’
    • It thrived with the likes of Allen Ginsburg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Lenny Bruce, but isn't an art form that died along with the beat generation.
    • So, beat generation hermits aside, who are the potential Gwyneth Herbert fans?
    • He had the Borscht belt sexism and made it modern-day: ‘There are no women in the beat generation, ‘he said, ‘just girls who have broken with their parents for the evening.’
    • She is a glutton for experience and was soon experimenting with sex, drugs and books which reflected those concerns - Henry Miller, Marguerite Duras and the writers of the beat generation.
    • I would draw from this list in my high school days and beyond and get pulled into the world of existentialism, the beat generation, Greek philosophy, and more.

Definition of beat generation in US English:

beat generation

nounbēt ˌjenəˈrāSHənbit ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃən
  • A movement of young people in the 1950s who rejected conventional society and favored Zen Buddhism, modern jazz, free sexuality, and recreational drugs. Among writers associated with the movement were Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

    垮掉的一代(指20世纪50年代和60年初期摈弃传统社会、重视自由的自我表现并喜爱现代爵士音乐的西方年轻人所掀起的运动,与此有关的作家有杰克·凯鲁亚克和艾伦·金斯伯格)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He had the Borscht belt sexism and made it modern-day: ‘There are no women in the beat generation, ‘he said, ‘just girls who have broken with their parents for the evening.’
    • He followed that with Young Adam - starring Ewan McGregor - an authentic adaptation of beat generation writer Alexander Trocchi's novel about a drifter.
    • For us the beat generation of the 60s was legendary.
    • The word ‘Beat’ comes from an offhand remark made by Kerouac, who called himself and his postwar peers ‘a beat generation,’ meaning down-and-out, or ‘finished.’
    • She is a glutton for experience and was soon experimenting with sex, drugs and books which reflected those concerns - Henry Miller, Marguerite Duras and the writers of the beat generation.
    • It thrived with the likes of Allen Ginsburg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Lenny Bruce, but isn't an art form that died along with the beat generation.
    • In fact, Breathing Fire 2 takes a look at the engaging Canadian voices of poets born in 1970s, the decade that followed the beret-clad beat generation.
    • The father of flower power, the icon of the beat generation, an early champion of gay rights - Allen Ginsberg was all these and yet never dated.
    • I would draw from this list in my high school days and beyond and get pulled into the world of existentialism, the beat generation, Greek philosophy, and more.
    • He said that he also knew the name Ram Dass only in association with ‘Be Here Now ‘- which he found when he was ‘into the beat generation.’
    • The Guevara of ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ is a poetic presence, a kindred spirit of the beat generation.
    • Brinkmann's breathless speaking takes up the ‘howl’ of the beat generation, his lust for the loud is like concrete poetry.
    • She was drawn to the script principally because of Trocchi, considered by some to be Britain's only true writer of the beat generation.
    • So, beat generation hermits aside, who are the potential Gwyneth Herbert fans?
    • My father was cool about it, which makes sense: he's cool, in the beret-wearing beat generation way.
    • There's the association of ‘women of the beat generation,’ which is a retrospective grouping.
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