Just a generation ago, women were largely confined to repetitive, menial jobs.

就在上一代人，女性被限制于主要从事重复生产、仆人工作。

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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。

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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。

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Just a generation ago, a typical employee could land a job right out of college with a big company, and reasonably expect to stay there for his or her entire career.

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In emerging nations such as China and India, where a college education was a rarity just a generation ago, tens of thousands of students graduate each year from universities that are on par with the best in the world.

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What was true a generation ago is just as true today: Many governments in Africa are corrupt and incompetent.

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