A person born in 1900 began with horse-drawn buggies and died with men walking on the Moon, but the last few decades have seen nothing like that sort of technological advance.

一个1900年生的人，出生的时候还是马车的时代，而过世时人类已经能在月球上行走。但是在过去的几十年里，这样的技术进步从未发生。

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Warren Bennis (born 1925) is a laid-back silver-haired professor at the University of Southern California who has been an influential authority on leadership for decades.

沃伦 贝尼 出生于1925年，任教于南加州大学，是一位性情温和、著名的教授，在领导力方面享有数十年的声誉。

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Born in 1952 in Beijing, Mr. Huang has been active and influential in the Chinese avant-garde for decades.

黄锐1952年生于北京，已经在中国的先锋艺术圈中活跃了几十年，有着相当的影响力。

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The Web stormed onto the media scene five years ago as a pictures- and-text overlay to the gorpy, words-only Internet, born three decades earlier.

FORBES: World Weary Web

According to an academic paper published recently, people born soon after the second world war were much more likely to move out of their parents' class than those born in later decades.

ECONOMIST: British society

Moranz was 8 when she left Shanghai in 1949, decades before Yu was born.

CNN: The Ghosts of Shanghai