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）。