Twenge ponders all these messages in her book "Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled -- and More Miserable Than Ever Before" (Free Press, 2006).
Twenge在其新书《“我”这一代：为何现在美国的年轻人这么自信，自负，自以为是，但也更痛苦》分析了以上问题的成因。
We are raising a generation of kids who do not want to pay monthly subscriptions for anything. Give me stuff for free and stick some advertising on it.
没想到持这种想法的居然大有人在，真是令人担忧：我们的下一代想读书时，他们会说“拿过来，在上面贴上广告就可以不付钱了吧？”
However, the choices to be made by me and others of my generation are a great challenge.
然而，我和我们这一代人将要做出的并非是轻而易举的选择。
We lost Edwin van der Sar and Gary Neville, Scholes. It's only really Giggsy, me and Rio [Ferdinand] from that generation.
我们失去了埃德温·范德萨，加里·内维尔和斯科尔斯，现在我们那一代人只剩下了吉格斯、里奥·费迪南德和我。
And let me tell you, there are actually some really great books out there about growing bodies, many that are made to be interesting to the younger generation.
也许你还不知道，确实有很有让年青一代感兴趣的好书是讨论成长过程中身体变化的。
I am on a mission - and I invite you to join me - to help change the "face" of what the next generation of girls is learning - and I believe we must first be the change we wish to see in them.
我有个使命-我邀请你加入-帮助下一代女孩改变所学习的东西-我相信，要让她们改变，我们必须先改变。
In fact, the 'me' generation is a determined, motivated and driven one that is eager to work for their own betterment and individualistic concerns.
事实上，“我一代”是拥有动力，致力把个人关注或喜爱的事情变好的一群。
I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation.
恨我的人，我必惩罚他们，自父及子，直到第三、第四代。
My father showed me that being a man involves taking responsibility-for your choices, for your family, for your community, and for the next generation.
父亲告诉我成为男人意味着承担责任——为你的选择、你的家庭、你的社区以及你的子孙后代。成为那样的男人需要经历的关键的一步是成家立业。
One went so far as to tell me, "If you have a Ford vehicle manufactured in the U.S., the parts for that vehicle were delivered to Ford based on a product built through code generation."
其中一位甚至对我说，“如果您有一辆美国造的福特车，这辆车的零部件都是通过代码生成根据产品生产需要提供给福特的。”
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me
不可跪拜那些像，也不可事奉它，因为我耶和华你的神是忌邪的神。恨我的，我必追讨他的罪，自父及子，直到三，四代。
This is the flip side of "It's my life,"and "you're not the boss of me,"and other eloquent proclamations of your generation,When you turn 18,it's on your dime.
这是对你们这一代友以雄辩的口才所宣称的“这是我的生活”以及“你不是我的主人”的另一面阐释证明。
In a park below me, residents exercised and gossiped, played badminton, and flew kites, while some of the younger generation powered up their Game Boys and listened to their iPods.
在我脚下的公园中，居民们或锻炼身体，或闲话家常，打羽毛球，放风筝，同时，年轻的一代则聚精会神地玩游戏机或听着iPod随身听中的音乐。
But my father showed me that being a man means taking responsibility-for your choices, for your family, for your community, and for the next generation.
但是我的父亲用行动告诉我成为男人意味着承担责任——为你的每个选择、你的家庭、你的社区以及你的子孙后代。
His grave has always moved me, and I have walked to it often: like many members of my generation, I cut my eyeteeth on his work.
他的墓地一直让我感怀，因而经常会去看看：就像很多我的同龄人那样，加缪的作品曾经让我内心第一次感到触动。
But Dad, do you know that there is actually a generation gap between us? Increasingly, I feel that you do not understand me and the way that you love me is not the way that I really want.
我知道你做什么都是为我好，不过爸爸，你知道吗，你是否有察觉我们之间有代沟，你越来越不了解我，你爱我的方式也不是我所需要的。
A.I think the younger generation obviously wants to move a lot more quickly in positions than maybe the more senior folks like me.
我想年轻人显然希望在工作岗位上可以迅速地上调，这比我这样的老年人的心气要高很多。
“The Columbia diving coach’s advice to me was, ‘Don’t say he’s a spokesman for his generation, ’ ” Mr. Gissler said.
哥伦比亚跳水教练给我的建议是‘别说他是那个时代的代言人。’吉斯勒先生说道。
For example, our cooperation in Galieo project, Airbus, nuclear power and the fourth-generation small scale nuclear technologies which king of Belgium mentioned to me this morning.
比如，伽利略计划合作、空客的合作、核电合作，今天上午比利时国王还跟我提及第四代小型核技术合作。
Though still hot, those new-wave artists are giving way to a very different group: the "me-first" generation, whose members talk about each other and themselves.
(他们,这些艺术家) 现在虽然还热度未减, (但) 那些新浪潮的艺术家们已经在让位于一群非常独特的群体: "我在先"的一代人,这群人的成员爱聊讨论互相以及讨论自己.
Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest and fullest vines in the vineyard, for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have come before me, generation upon generation.
今天，我要从最高最密的藤上摘下智慧的果实，这葡萄藤是好几代前的智者种下的。
Only me and Van Persie remain of that generation, and we have a lot of responsibility.
曾经的那一代枪手里只有我和范佩西还留在队中，我们必须承担很多责任。
This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "you're not the boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation.
与此相反的说法有“我的生活就是这样”，“你又不是我的老板”，以及你们这一代人油嘴滑舌的其它说法。
Like me, Royale is a first generation college student... and her mother worked two fulltime jobs while her father worked nights to support their family.
像我一样，罗亚尔是家里的第一代大学生……她目前做两份全职工作，而她父亲晚上工作以维持他们的家庭。
Young people in Western countries are often described in the media as Generation Y, the "me Generation", interested in consumerism and selfish pursuits.
西方国家的年轻人经常被媒体称为Y代人，即“自我的一代”，他们拥护消费至上主义和利己主义。
So for me, the penny did not drop until Wednesday morning that the world now belongs to the generation below mine.
因此，对我而言，直到17日那个早晨我才肯相信，世界如今已经属于我的下一代了。
So for me, the penny did not drop until Wednesday morning that the world now belongs to the generation below mine.
因此，对我而言，直到17日那个早晨我才肯相信，世界如今已经属于我的下一代了。
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