1·You'll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying.
你将成长在婴儿潮时期的那代人将要退休和逐渐死去的时代。
2·You will be growing up in the generation where the baby-boomers are going into retirement and dying.
在你们即将长大的这个时代,婴儿潮时期出生的一代人即将退休和死亡。
3·Even apart from the increased competition, the kids enter a process that has been utterly transformed from the one baby boomers knew.
甚至除了日益激烈的竞争,孩子们还进入了一个完全不同于婴儿潮一代的进程当中。
4·Despite trade competition and outsourcing, American manufacturing still needs to replace tens of thousands of retiring boomers every year.
尽管存在贸易竞争和业务外包,但美国制造业每年仍需要更替数万名即将退休的婴儿潮一代的人。
5·Older Americans are also the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. workforce, and boomers are expected to live longer than previous generations.
在美国,老年人也是美国劳动力中增长最快的群体,而婴儿潮这一代的寿命预计比前几代人更长寿。
6·As baby boomers came of high-school age, big schools promised economic efficiency, a greater choice of courses, and, of course, better football teams.
随着二战后婴儿潮时期出生的人进入高中,大型学校承诺提高经济效率,提供更多课程选择,当然,还提供更好的足球队。
7·But the Labor Department's latest jobs reports and other recent data reports present a strong case for crowning baby boomers as the greatest victims of the recession and its dreadful consequences.
但美国劳工部最新的就业报告和其他最新数据报告有力地证明了婴儿潮一代是经济衰退及其可怕后果的最大受害者。
8·Age is naturally a factor—only 58 percent of Generation Ys still use landlines now and then, compared to 84 percent of Baby Boomers who've perhaps had the same home number for 50 years.
年龄自然是一个因素,现在只有58%的 Y 世代的人们还时不时地用到座机,相比之下,有84%的婴儿潮世代的人们,家里的电话号码已经50年没有变了。
9·That said, to be honest the only people who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers parents, to the point where we play a game and guess who is calling before we pick up the phone (using Caller ID would take the fun out of it).
也就是说,事实上唯一给我们家里打电话的人是我们婴儿潮世代的父母。所以我们会玩一个游戏,在拿起电话之前猜是谁在打电话(使用来电显示功能会让游戏失去乐趣)。
10·Despite trade competition and outsourcing, American manufacturing still needs to replaces tens of thousands of retiring boomers every year.
尽管贸易竞争和业务外包现象依旧存在,美国的制造业每年仍需替换掉成千上万退休劳工的劳动力。