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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• As the working-age population rises as it did, for instance, after the baby boom asset prices rocket because of increased demand.
  一旦劳动年龄的人口增加正是如此，比如说，在“婴儿出生潮”之后房产的价格飞上了天因为需求旺盛。
• 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。
• The baby boom created a bulge in school enrollment.
  生育高峰造成学校入学人数的暴涨。
• 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。