Translation of "generation gap" to French

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Dictionary translations for "generation gap"

generation gap noun

pl. generation gaps

le fossé des générations m

Contexts with "generation gap"

Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young. Chokichi sentait vivement que les gens, à mesure qu'ils vieillissent, oublient entièrement les soucis que seuls les jeunes peuvent connaître et dont ils ont eux-mêmes fait l'expérience dans leur jeunesse ; et qu'ils prennent nonchalamment cette attitude facile où ils jugent durement les circonstances des jeunes de la nouvelle génération. Il sentait qu'il y avait réellement une distance irréconciliable entre les vieux et les jeunes.

What makes the classics both intriguing and fascinating is that they're near enough that we can feel the similarity and they're distant enough that we have to do some work to bridge the gap. Ce qui rend les classiques si intrigants et fascinants est qu'ils sont suffisamment proches pour que nous en sentions la similarité et suffisamment distants pour que nous dussions faire un effort pour combler le fossé.

Each generation would have to rediscover for itself the truths of the past. Chaque génération aura à redécouvrir pour elle-même les vérités du passé.

Mind the gap Attention au trou.

Many people in my grandfather's generation grew up on farms. Beaucoup de personnes de la génération de mon grand-père ont grandi dans des fermes.

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