释义
n.
the generation reaching maturity during and just after the First World War, a high proportion of whose men were killed during those years
战死的一代（指第一次世界大战期间或战后长大成长的一代，其中有大量男性青年阵亡）。
an unfulfilled generation coming to maturity during a period of instability
迷惘的一代（指动荡时期长大成人、未能施展才华的一代）。
词源
" phrase applied by Gertrude Stein to disillusioned young American writers, such as Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound, who went to live in Paris in the 1920s. "