Failing to tackle the deficit would be throwing away an opportunity we haven't had for a generation.

解决不了赤字问题将会浪费我们一整代人都不曾遇到的一个机会。

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The most crooked thing about this generation is that we have created ways of salvation without God and therefore without law and forgiveness.

这一代人最扭曲的事情是，我们创造了救赎的方式，没有上帝，因此没有法律、没有宽恕。

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We thought that even if we started educating girls today, we'd have to wait a generation for the pay off.

我们认为，即使我们今天开始教育女孩，我们也要等一代人的时间才能得到回报。

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"In a single generation, we've fallen from first place to twelfth place in college graduation rates for young adults.

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But nevertheless, let's just go with this for a minute, and if we suppose that it took about a generation to enter the land so you see, I've done the math on the side here.

无论如何，我们还是要稍微讨论一下，假设，进入这块土地要一代人的努力,你看，我已经在这边做了算术。

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We validated next generation radios for cars at General Motors.

我们验证了下一代车辆的无线广播系统。

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Springworks has started WE Generation for women interested in entrepreneurship.

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We can't let the founders down, we can't let every generation that's come before us down, we can't let the Greatest Generation down, we can't let our children down.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Monica Crowley, Mightier Pen 2012

That we are of the same generation is significant, I think, because we are of a generation that came out of that moment when there were still over 20 states that had anti-miscegenation laws, and that we grew up in a time when those laws were gradually changing and being done away with.

NPR: Natasha Trethewey: If My Mom Could See Us Now