英文generation gap的另一种译法，过去多译为“代沟”，现在社会学中多译为“代差”。多数社会学家认为代差比代沟更能准确的描述“generation gap”这一现象。相关内涵可参见百科“代沟”条目。 另也指军事方面的差距，诸如战斗机代差，坦克代差，导弹代差等。现也多引申两者方面巨大的差距。如中美国力代差，欧美与非洲的巨大差距等。
新浪潮的那一代人没有谁拍的电影多过夏布洛尔，或者他的电影多到，好的具有嘲讽性，差的就很普通。
No one of that new wave generation made more films than Chabrol, or so many that were sardonic at best, routine at worst.
20世纪50年代，F1赛车的动力输出大约是100 bhp/litre（与现在的街上跑的那些车差不了多少）。
In the 1950s Formula One cars were managing specific power outputs of around 100 bhp / litre (about what a modern 'performance' road car can manage now).
对有限元和有限差分的数值计算提出了井孔奇点修正和以沟代井列的计算方法，从而提高了离散化网络的计算精度，并可简化取代三维问题为二维。
The method for correction of singular points of wells and the calculation method of well row replaced by a ditch in the numerical FEM and FDM computations were proposed in this paper.
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