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

• Born in1946, Bush is a member of the huge postwar "baby boom" generation.
  布什于1946年出生，属于战后“婴儿潮”的一代。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• China needs a baby boom& and badly, researchers say.
  研究人员说，中国需要一个生育高峰，并且是急需。
• 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。