词汇 | baby-boom |
释义 | baby boom noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˈbeɪ.bi ˌbuːm/ us /ˈbeɪ.bi ˌbuːm/ a large increase in the number of babies born among a particular group of people during a particular time: 生育高峰,婴儿潮 There was a baby boom in the UK and the US after the Second World War.二战后,英国和美国都出现了一次生育高峰。 Children & babies ankle-biter arrival babe babe in arms baby comfort blanket crawler designer baby devil diddums neonate new addition nipper only child oops-a-daisy teethe tiddler tike toddler toilet-trained baby boom | American Dictionarybaby boom noun[ C ] us/ˈbeɪ·bi ˌbum/ a large increase in the number of babies born in a particular place during a particular time baby boom | Business Englishbaby boom noun ukus [ C ] a period during which there is a big increase in the number of births, especially used to refer to the period in the UK and US between approximately 1945 and 1965: China experienced a baby boom after the Communist Party came to power in 1949. post-war baby boom baby-boomadjective[ before noun ] Health care costs are rising in an era of a growing and ageing baby-boom generation. Examples of baby boombaby boom In fact, the number of births was on the increase in the early 1970s, which was labeled as the 'second babyboom'. Here, perhaps the changing family size ideals were associated with the babyboom of the 1950s. Particularly, the impending retirement of the babyboom generation is raising a great deal of concern. The 1950s and 1960s babyboom will of course mean a bulge in the numbers of older people when they reach later life. This period of sustained high fertility has been called the 'babyboom'. Total births after the 'babyboom' of 1946-48 declined each year until the mid 1950s. The aggregate saving rate decreases from 2000 until about 2050 across all capital mobility scenarios, since the babyboom generation decumulates assets. These last three trends would undoubtedly have been stronger had the babyboom not occurred. The babyboom generation broke the mould of the modern lifecourse. The ratios of higher parities all fell consistently in each successive cohort (apart from one insignificant exception), including the babyboom cohorts. Without the babyboom, this process might have taken three generations. The demographic post-war babyboom working its way up the age range to reach its all-time peak of nearly a million school-leavers in 1962 did not affect this situation. As workers from the babyboom generation retire and draw benefits from the trust fund, the ratio falls steadily, eventually reaching zero in the middle of the century. The large cohorts born during the babyboom are approaching retirement, while new cohorts arriving on the labour market are much smaller. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English One million young people of that babyboom are now looking for work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of baby boom These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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