Just A Generation Ago的意思|示意

Just a generation ago, the mark of acivilised person was an appreciation of Shakespeare, Milton, Goethe, Thucydides, Rembrandt and Beethoven.

就在上一代人看来，一个人有文化的标志是看他对莎士比亚、弥尔顿、修昔底德、伦勃朗和贝多芬的鉴赏能力。

Young settlers are just as militant as their parents were a generation ago, setting up small West Bank outposts and resisting their dismantlement in fierce, well-publicised mass protests.

如同一辈前那样，年轻的定居者和他们的父辈一样好斗，他们设立西岸小哨所，强烈抵制对定居点的拆除，广泛发布抗议声明。

The engineers behind it also hope that the sight of a robot walking on the Moon would inspire a new generation of scientists, just as the Apollo landings did 40 years ago.

设计该项目的工程师们还希望，机器人在月球表面行走的场面将如同40年前阿波罗登月一样激励出新一代的科学家。

Women, who a generation ago spent a fraction under two hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutes – a dramatic fall, but they still spend far more time at the hob than men.

上一代女性每天花在做饭上的时间不到两小时，而如今仅为一小时零七分钟——虽然时间少了很多，但还是比男性下厨的时间长很多。

My younger daughter has just got a place at Oxford which, a generation ago, was a fail-safe passport to a decent job.

我的小女儿刚上牛津大学，在上一代，这是获得好工作的保险护照。

Even from America's great liberal arts colleges, transcripts reflect an undergraduate specialization that would have been unthinkably narrow just a generation ago.

甚至在美国那些很好的文科院校里，成绩单也反映出本科生的专业面，就在一代人以前也会被认为是难以想象的狭窄。