1. So by word of mouth the story was passed down generation to generation and, in my case, repeated for many summers running.
    于是，这个故事就以口头的形式一代一代传了下来；到了我这一代，依然在每一年的夏天传颂着。

2. Second-generation family members and in-laws now help run greenhouses in California and Colorado.
    其第二代家庭成员，包括女婿、儿媳等，如今都在经营加里福尼亚州和科罗拉多州的温室。

3. Most people of my father´s generation have experienced war.
    我父亲的那一代人大都经历过战争.

4. Ram's father had supported his wife's career even though he belonged to a generation of Indian men who expected their wives to stay at home.
    拉姆的父亲属于期望妻子在家呆着的那代印度人。即使如此，他仍然很支持妻子的职业生涯。

5. Like no other plague before, the AIDS epidemic threatens to wipe out an entire generation and leave another without parents.
    和以前其他瘟疫不同，艾滋病这一流行性疾病有可能夺去一代人的生命，从而使另一代人失去双亲。

6. It is also criticized as a movement forcing a new generation of Japanese to sacrifice their childhood out of an extreme desire for status and getting ahead.
    也有人批评它是一场强迫新一代日本人为了地位和出类拔萃而牺牲自己的童年的运动。