baby boom

英 [ˈbeɪbi buːm]

美 [ˈbeɪbi buːm]

n.  生育高峰(期)

TOEFL

牛津词典

noun

• 生育高峰（期）
  a period when many more babies are born than usual

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 生育高峰
  Ababy boomis a period of time when a lot of babies are born in a particular place.
  1. I'm a product of the postwar baby boom.
     我出生在战后的生育高峰期。

英英释义

noun

• the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II
  Synonym:baby-boom generation

双语例句

• With the baby boom, the focus of educators and of laymen interested in education inevitably turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and discipline.
  随着生育高峰，教育者和圈外人士对教育的兴趣和焦点，不可避免地转向了更低的年级和基础的学术技能和学科上。
• I don't care what anyone says, there have got to be data that back up what I'm seeing: that after Sept.11, there was at least a Brooklyn baby boom.
  别人怎么说我不管，应该有数据证实我目睹的情况：9·11事件之后，至少在布鲁克林出现了生育高峰。
• Although economics was probably the most important determinant, it is not the only explanation for the baby boom.
  对于生育高峰，经济有可能是最重要的决定因素，但它并不是惟一的解释。
• Beijing a giant panda in Southwest China has given birth to a pair of twins, state media said, the latest additions in a baby boom for the endangered animals.
  北京，官方媒体说，中国西南的一只大熊猫生了一对双胞胎，这是这种濒临灭绝动物婴儿潮中新添的宝宝。
• A member of a baby-boom generation. The baby boom swelled the population.
  婴儿潮[生育高峰]使人口膨胀。
• A person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically.
  一个在生育高峰之后出生率大副度降低的时候出生的人。
• I believed the baby boom story and waited for the babies.
  我相信关于生育高峰报道的真实性，期待着这些孩子的出生。
• Like many people born at the tail end of the baby boom generation, I built up a sizeable vinyl record collection in my youth.
  与许多出生于婴儿潮末期的人一样，我在青年时代收集了大量乙烯基（黑胶）唱片。
• But others at the forum disputed the notion that China should be encouraging a new baby boom.
  但也有人在论坛上对中国应鼓励一个新的婴儿潮的建议提出异议。
• Those pastures now produce the new grass needed to make rich milk and feed a bison baby boom.
  这些牧场现在产生的新草带来丰富的牛奶并满足野牛的婴儿潮。