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WHAT DOES LOST GENERATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Lost Generation

The "Lost Generation" was the generation that came of age during World War I. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The Sun Also Rises. In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron. In A Moveable Feast, published after Hemingway and Stein's death, Hemingway claims that Stein heard the phrase from a garage owner who serviced Stein's car. When a young mechanic failed to repair the car quickly enough, the garage owner shouted at the boy, "You are all a "génération perdue.":29 Stein, in telling Hemingway the story, added, "That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.":29 This generation included distinguished artists such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, Waldo Peirce, Isadora Duncan, Abraham Walkowitz, Alan Seeger, and Erich Maria Remarque.

Definition of Lost Generation in the English dictionary

The definition of Lost Generation in the dictionary is the large number of talented young men killed in World War I. Other definition of Lost Generation is the generation of writers, esp American authors such as Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway, active after World War I.

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Translator English - Chinese

迷惘的一代
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Generación perdida
570 millions of speakers

English

Lost Generation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खो पीढ़ी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

جيل ضائع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Потерянное поколение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Geração Perdida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হারানো জেনারেশন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Lost Generation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lost Generation
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Translator English - German

Lost Generation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

失われた世代
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잃어버린 세대
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lost Generation
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Translator English - Vietnamese

mất thế hệ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இழந்த தலைமுறை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गमावले निर्मिती
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Translator English - Turkish

Kayıp Üretim
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Translator English - Italian

perso Generation
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Translator English - Polish

Przegrana Generacja
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Translator English - Ukrainian

втрачене покоління
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Translator English - Romanian

generație pierdută
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Translator English - Greek

Lost Generation
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Translator English - Afrikaans

verlore generasie
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Förlorad Generation
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

tapt generasjon
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOST GENERATION»

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The Lost Generation: The Brilliant But Tragic Lives of ...
All had the potential to be World Champions. With access to their families, friends and race colleagues, David Tremayne tells their full stories in this superb book, now available in paperback. It makes for poignant but uplifting reading.
David Tremayne, 2010
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary ...
I'm glad to have lived long enough to read it. --Glenway Wescott The story of Sylvia Beach's love for Shakespeare and Company supplies the lifeblood of this book. 'An absorbing book, backed by an impressive amount of research.
Noel Riley Fitch, 1985
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Writing the Lost Generation: Expatriate Autobiography and ...
By bringing together the self-reflective works of the Lost Generation and probing the ways the writers portrayed themselves, Monk provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of modernist expatriates from the United States.
Craig Monk, 2010
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The Lost Generation
In this, the third, explosive volume of Robert Vaughan's AMERICAN CHRONICLES, prohibition and gangland wars define the era.
Robert Vaughan, 2014
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Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia's Lost ...
That there must have been extraordinary individuals among them has been implicitly understood, but these special Australians are unknown today. This book seeks to retrieve their stories and to fill the gaps in our collective memory. F.
Ross McMullin, 2012
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Lost Generation?: New Strategies for Youth and Education
Confronting the current crisis in education at all levels from primary to postgraduate schools, the authors propose fundamental changes in policy for youth and education >
Martin Allen, Patrick Ainley, 2010
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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, A Lost ...
"There was a shine to life wherever they were," said the poet Archibald MacLeish -- and this book, which reads as much like a rich and engaging novel as a work of biography, shows why.
Amanda Vaill, 2013
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Morning Sun: Interviews with Chinese Writers of the Lost ...
This is a collection of interviews with 26 writers of China's zhiqing generation, relatively young artists who participated in the Cultural Revolution as teen-aged Red Guards, suffered through the subsequent rustication of intellectual ...
Laifong Leung, 1994
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Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and ...
Presents correspondence between the Murphys and the rest of the famous literary set 'In this collection of the correspondence between Sara and Gerald Murphy, spanning the years 1925 to 1964, the names of 'lost generation' luminaries fairly ...
Linda Patterson Miller, 1993
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Found Meals of the Lost Generation: Recipes and Anecdotes ...
Describes the experiences of American expatriate artists and authors in 1920s Paris, and shares characteristic recipes from the period
Suzanne Rodriguez-Hunter, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LOST GENERATION»

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Syria: hundreds of thousands of children missing out on education …
... whom were in school before the conflict – have given way to millions of children and adolescents being at risk of becoming a lost generation. «UNICEF Connect, Jul 15»
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Over 100,000 youth miss out on needed social services - NL Times
... believes that the only solution is developing a long-term vision. “Otherwise we will create a lost generation”, Kees van Anken said to NOS. «NL Times, Jul 15»
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Bankrate, Inc. (NYSE:RATE) - Millennials And Financial Phobias: Is …
One maven in particular brought up the expected longevity of Millennials as a reason not to fear that there will be a lost generation market-wise. «Benzinga, Jul 15»
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Loving Repeating musical tribute to author Gertrude Stein - 198 …
From her student days in the late 19th century to the height of her artistic era in Paris as one of the 'lost generation,' LOVING REPEATING pays ... «Windy City Times, Jul 15»
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R.I.P. Fred Slatten, The King of Santa Monica Boulevard - CityWatch
... Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers (Taylor Trade, 2016) and Looking for Hemingway And The Lost Generation (Lyons Press). «City Watch, Jul 15»
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2015 international fall preview | Quill and Quire
... where they established a thriving social life among a community of writers and artists of the lost generation, the likes of which included Ernest ... «Quill & Quire, Jul 15»
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Global miners face succession crisis as old guard nears retirement
It is the price of a 'lost generation' - those now in their 40s who failed to find jobs in the industry during a mining downturn in the 1990s and ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
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UN Says Four Million Refugees Have Left Syria
When you have millions of children unable to go to school, unable to get the proper help they need… the risk is you run into a lost generation of ... «VOA Learning English, Jul 15»
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Sound Off for Monday, July 20, 2015 | Sound Off | Columbus Ledger …
One lost generation is enough. They're half right. A reader called Hillary an "arrogant, lying crook." That's a good description of Washington ... «Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Jul 15»
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The Strategist Quiz (#418) | Business Standard News
Sixteen companies in the US are joining _____ in the coalition aimed at America's so-called "lost generation" of millennials. They have formed ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»

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