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

• The baby boom has already put hospitals and doctors on alert in major cities.
  在一些大城市，这一生育高潮已经让很多医院和大夫绷紧了弦。
• 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。
• 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。
• Entitlement spending is bound to increase as the baby boom generation retires.
  应享权益支出必须随“婴儿潮”一代的退休人员数量的增加而增长。
• More members of the generation born under the one-child policy have reached the age of marriage and child-bearing, and China is preparing itself for a baby boom.
  计划生育年代出生的一代人已经到了结婚和生育的年龄，中国正在迎接又一个生育高峰。
• In my neighborhood there is a baby boom.
  我家附近出现了生育高峰。
• Nonstop waves of immigrants played a role, too& and so did bigger crops of babies as yesterday's "baby boom" generation reached its child-bearing years.
  不断涌入的移民潮，还有以前“生育高峰”出生的那些孩子也已到了生育年龄，这些都发挥着作用。
• 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。
• 18 A month ago there were news reports of a post-Sept. 11 baby boom.
  一个月前，有关于9·11事件之后出现生育高峰的新闻报道。
• For a city with an ageing population, a baby boom should be good news.
  对于一个人口日益老龄化的城市而言，出现婴儿潮应该是个好消息。