在上一代以前，人们认为这么小的新生儿是没法存活的。
A generation ago, it was thought that babies born this small could not survive.
尽管这款汽车比其上一代产品短2英寸，但它的行李箱大了20%。
Although the car is some 2 inches shorter than its predecessor, its boot is 20 percent larger.
他们比上一代面临更多挑战吗？
正是在这种时候播下了不健康的愤怒之种。说着“不许哭”的父母只是在照搬上一代的行为，而上一代的父母很可能也是这么被教育过来的。
It's moments like those that plant the seeds of unhealthy anger. The "stop crying" parents are just doing what they were taught by their own parents, who were probably taught that by their parents on and on.
与上一代相比，这是一个巨大的变化。
在上一代，我们失去了与土地的联系，而现在我们又失去了与我们赖以生存的机器的联系。
In an earlier generation, we lost our connection to the land, and now we are losing our connection to the machinery we depend on.
是否今天的经济学家的才华不及其上一代？
Are today's economists less talented than their immediate predecessors?
他可能是后防线上一代甚至是两代人的发现。
May be the defensive find of a generation or even two for that matter.
我们的采访表明，影响青年人的广告媒体和上一代不同。
Our interviews suggest they are influenced by different advertising media than older generations.
上一代计算机专业人士恰好形成一股反(普及)的力量。
An entire generation of computer professionals had come to power doing just the opposite.
在上一代，家庭教学并不常见，甚至在很多州还不合法。
They are far from alone. A generation ago, home-schooling was rare and, in many states, illegal.
在上一代，少有外地人听说过泸沽湖或摩梭族。
A generation ago, few outsiders had ever heard of Lake Lugu or the Mosuo.
上一代iPhone的销售慢是因为价格太高。
Sales for previous generations of the iPhone were slow because of its high price.
结果是在很多重要的方面，他们的孩子并不比上一代强。
with the result that, in important ways, their children may not be better off than they are.
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。
My younger daughter has just got a place at Oxford which, a generation ago, was a fail-safe passport to a decent job.
只有32%的男人和29%的女人认为他们这一代将比上一代有更幸福的婚姻。
32% of men and 29% of women think that their generation will have happier marriages than past generations.
苹果表示，24吋的iMac提供了比上一代机器大30%的显示器。
Apple said the 24-inch iMac delivers a 30 percent larger display than the previous generation machines.
如果它不能释放足够的堆空间，那么它就继续收集上一代，直到回收了足够的内存。
If it does not free enough heap space, it proceeds to collect higher generations until enough memory has been reclaimed.
在领取退休金之后，他们拒绝静静的度过余下的时光，如同他们的上一代。
After drawing their pensions they are refusing to quietly see out their days as generations before them have.
预计它对于目前一代的重要性就象SEI及其能力成熟度模型对上一代的重要性一样。
I predict that it will be as essential to the present generation as the SEI and its Capability Maturity Model were to the last.
目前边际税率与平均税率仍然在随收入增长，但是总的税收结构比起上一代要更为稳定。
Marginal and average tax rates still rise with income, but overall tax structures are much flatter than they were a generation ago.
沿用了上一代设计的LCD和正面玻璃层是连在一起的，这让屏幕碎裂的修理费更加昂贵
The LCD and glass -- a carryover from the previous generation -- are fused together, making cracked glass repair more costly.
这就给了勘探这一代生物燃料的工作一个理由，而这个理由是上一代所缺失的。
This gives the prospects for this generation of biofuels a plausibility that was missing from its predecessors.
同时，由于使用了非放射性技术，因此M4JCAD比上一代探测器更具优势。
It also benefits from the use of a non-radioactive technology compared with previous generations of detectors.
在上一代，婚纱照更像斯巴达人或死尸：黑白照片，夫妇并肩站着，凝视前方，通常很严肃。
A generation ago, wedding photographs were rather Spartan and stiff: black and white images of the couple standing side by side, staring forward, often unsmiling.
加强版的新飞机将会在5年内开始服役，并延续上一代机型的“生命”直到2025年。
The spruced-up planes would enter service in about five years’ time, extending the models’ lives until around 2025.
另一个有所改变之处，是键盘的触感 -- 按键比上一代感觉要更硬、更有弹性些，不再软趴趴的。
Keys are more springy than before, more solid and responsive than the somewhat loose, flappy ones on the last generation.
另一个有所改变之处，是键盘的触感 -- 按键比上一代感觉要更硬、更有弹性些，不再软趴趴的。
Keys are more springy than before, more solid and responsive than the somewhat loose, flappy ones on the last generation.
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