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

• Like many members of my early baby boom generation, my first car was a Volkswagen Beetle.
  我是婴儿潮早期出生的那一代人。像许多同龄人一样，我的第一台车是一台大众甲壳虫（VolkswagenBeetle）。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• This notion has sparked a baby boom across the country.
  因此，金猪年的说法引起了全国范围内的宝宝潮。
• 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。
• 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。
• The baby boom created a bulge in school enrollment.
  生育高峰造成学校入学人数的暴涨。
• 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。