Practically unheard of a generation ago, the discounts have become a routine part of many businesses—as common as color televisions in motel rooms and free coffee on airliners.
上一代人几乎闻所未闻的打折已经成为许多企业的惯用手段——就像汽车旅馆房间里的彩电和航班上的免费咖啡一样普遍。
You can shut out the distractions on public transport in a way that was impossible a generation ago.
你可以躲开公共交通的干扰，而这在一代人以前是不可能的。
But just as striking is how much men and women agree on issues that divided them a generation ago.
同样引人注目的是，让上一辈人水火不容的问题，现在的男女却达成了如此一致的看法。
Asian countries that were destitute a generation ago now boast some of the highest living standards in the world.
一代人以前还十分贫困的一些亚洲国家现在跻身于生活水平最高的国家行列。
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。
Feminists a generation ago fought for the title and dreamed of Freedom and Choice and Opportunity;
上一代女性主义者为了称谓而斗争，梦想着自由、选择和机会；
Only a generation ago social planners worried about what people would do with all this new-found free time.
只有上一代的社会规划者担心人们将要如何处理这些新找到的自由时间。
There is little doubt that Americans' incomes are more variable than they were a generation ago, but the story is a nuanced one.
毫无疑问，与上一代人相比，如今美国人的收入波动性更大。但是，这一说法非常微妙。
And wages are under more pressure than prices, so buying power for most Japanese has declined compared with a generation ago.
相比于物价，工资遭受的压力更大，所以大多数日本人的购买力并不如上一代人。
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。
That explains why, although mining died in Britain a generation ago, most of the world's leading mining companies have moved their headquarters to London.
这就解释了为什么在英国，尽管矿业时代早已结束，世界上的大多数处于领先地位的采矿公司还是把总部搬到伦敦。
New scientific studies of animal behavior revealperceptions, intelligences, awareness and social skills that would havebeen deemed fantasy a generation ago.
新的动物行为科学研究，揭示动物有认知、智能、意识和社交技巧，要是25年前就会被视为幻想。
Moreover, the cost of failing to produce new jobs is rising, as the babies born a generation ago (when fertility rates were higher) are entering the job market.
此外，随着一代前出生的婴儿(那个时候的出生率比较高)进入就业市场，未能产生新就业机会的成本正在上升。
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。
During the OS wars of a generation ago, it was hard to write software for one platform, let alone two, and developers were pressured to pick either Mac or PC, and quickly.
上一代操作系统之争时，就算为一个平台写软件也不容易，更别提两个了，开发人员被逼在Mac和PC上挑一个，还得要快。
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。
A generation ago young people aspired to become lawyers and doctors.
三十年前，年轻人都渴望成为律师或者医生。
A generation ago, it was still possible to speak of the skyscraper as an American phenomenon.
一代人以前，还有可能说摩天大楼是一种美国现象。
They are far from alone. A generation ago, home-schooling was rare and, in many states, illegal.
在上一代，家庭教学并不常见，甚至在很多州还不合法。
A generation ago, workers in Beijing were from Beijing, and most lived with their families or in company dorms.
上一代在北京工作的还都是本地人，他们大多和家人住在一起，也有人住在公司的宿舍。
A generation ago Toronto benefited from an influx of businesses from Montreal fleeing the threat of Quebec separatism.
大约在三十年前，由于魁北克分离主义的威胁，大量的企业纷纷逃离蒙特利尔而涌入多伦多，使之大为受益。
A generation ago young people aspired to become lawyers and doctors. Now they yearn to be the next Oscar winner or celebrity pop star.
上一代人，他们在年轻的时候都立志成为律师或者医生，而现在的年轻人则是梦想成为下一位奥斯卡奖得主或成为如雷贯耳的明星。
A generation ago, we ranked number one in the number of college graduates. We've now slipped to number 12 in the number of college graduates.
上一代人以前，我们曾在大学毕业生的数量上排在第一位，而现在这一数字下降到第12位了。
A generation ago bespoke tailoring declined as men increasingly bought off-the-peg rather than being measured for suits in the small tailors' shops that Zegna supplied.
就在这一代以前，随着男士越来越多地选择购买成衣而不是选择由杰尼亚提供的小裁缝店量身订制服，定制服装开始走了下坡路。
A generation ago bespoke tailoring declined as men increasingly bought off-the-peg rather than being measured for suits in the small tailors' shops that Zegna supplied.
就在这一代以前，随着男士越来越多地选择购买成衣而不是选择由杰尼亚提供的小裁缝店量身订制服，定制服装开始走了下坡路。
应用推荐