Generation X

短语

n. 无名一代；X一代；被遗忘的一代（出生于1970年代的美国人）

发音

UK /ˌdʒɛnəɹeɪʃn̩ ˈɛks/
其它
US /ˌdʒɛnəˌɹeɪʃən ˈɛks/

别名

generation X Gen X Gen-X X Generation X generation

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    A generation of people whose future is uncertain; a lost generation.

    澳大利亚 爱尔兰 新西兰 英国 美国
  2. 2.

    The generation of people born after the baby boom that followed World War II, especially those born from the mid 1960s to early 1980s, sometimes characterized as cynical, disaffected, lacking direction in life, and unwilling to take part fully in society.

    X世代

    澳大利亚 爱尔兰 新西兰 英国 美国

词源

Compound of generation + X (used to represent an unknown quantity or unknown value). Sense 2 (“the post-baby boom generation”) was popularized by the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) by the Canadian author and artist Douglas Coupland (born 1961).

来源：wiktionary