与前几代人相比，差异似乎小得多。
There seems to be much less difference than in previous generations.
我们将比前几代人更出名。
在偏远的农村地区，音乐是更传统的，和前几代人喜欢的歌曲是一样的。
Out in remote areas of the countryside, in rural locations, music was more traditional, the same songs that were enjoyed by previous generations.
前几代人说，他们希望自己的孩子能像林肯一样：有原则、善良、有同情心、果断。
Earlier generations said they wanted their children to be like Lincoln: principled, kind, compassionate, resolute.
在另一项分析中，研究人员发现，如今的青少年与朋友外出的次数比前几代人少得多。
In another analysis, researchers found that today's teens go out with their friends much less often than previous generations did.
在美国，老年人也是美国劳动力中增长最快的群体，而婴儿潮这一代的寿命预计比前几代人更长寿。
Older Americans are also the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. workforce, and boomers are expected to live longer than previous generations.
对前几代人来说，大学是摆脱父母控制的一个决定性时期，同时同龄人和长者的支持与指导也是必不可少的。
For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control; guidance and support needed help from people of the same age and from within.
年轻人和老年人在一个关键问题上达成了一致：两个群体中的绝大多数人都认为，与前几代人相比，现代年轻人开启新生活更加困难。
Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations.
她认为这是前几代人的梦想。
总体来看，如今的父母对孩子的疼爱比前几代人超出很多。
In general, the amount of affection that parents show their children has increased significantly over the generations.
对于前几代人来说，大学是他们脱离父母控制的决定性时期。
For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control;
5%的受访者称，与前几代人相比，如今的年轻人择偶时更注重对方的经济条件。
Of those surveyed, 85.5 percent said the younger generation paid more attention to financial status when considering potential life partners than previous generations.
但是在英国这样的国家，对前几代人来说买房子很容易，这似乎是在嘲笑某种心理规律。
But in a country like Britain, where earlier generations found it easy to buy homes, that seems to flout a psychological rule for some.
但是前几代人住在这里的时候，隔断墙和密封的门都糊上了墙纸，因而这段铭文几乎被人遗忘了。
But for a generation back or more, the partition wall and the sealed door had been covered with wall paper, and the inscription had been almost forgotten.
如果因为前几代人生育率高，那么处于育龄的女性将很多，即便每个人生育的数少了，总数是增加的。
If, because of high fertility in earlier generations, there is a bulge of women of childbearing years, more children will be born, though each mother is having fewer children.
但是格林菲尔德告诫道：“很难设想怎样能过这样的日常生活而不导致大脑，或者说思想与前几代人不同。”
But Greenfield warned: "It is hard to see how living this way on a daily basis will not result in brains, or rather minds, different from those of previous generations."
虽然冷漠和疏远已成为整个国家的通病，但是18至29岁的美国青年似乎更深地沾染了自顾自的习气，从而使者代人与前几代人明显地区分开来。
While apathy and alienation have become a national plague, the disengagement seems to run deeper among young Americans, those 18 to 29, setting them clearly apart from earlier generations.
前几代人因为预算有限，生活消费品供应不足。当他们买到什么新鲜玩意，就会自我陶醉飘飘然起来，而今面对泛滥的选项，人们已经变得麻木不仁。
This excess also numbs us to the heady pleasure felt by previous generations when they bought something new in an era when budgets were leaner and consumer goods in shorter supply.
后来，大约在公元前7000年，在几代人的时间里，他们突然转向放牧家养的山羊和绵羊，转而种植单粒小麦、豆类和其他谷类牧草。
Then, about 7000 B.C., within the space of a few generations, they switched abruptly to herding domesticated goats and sheep and to growing einkorn, pulses, and other cereal grasses.
后来，大约在公元前7000年，在几代人的时间里，他们突然转向放牧家养的山羊和绵羊，转而种植单粒小麦、豆类和其他谷类牧草。
Then, about 7000 B.C., within the space of a few generations, they switched abruptly to herding domesticated goats and sheep and to growing einkorn, pulses, and other cereal grasses.
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