And yet Sir Nicholas asks the present generation to make an economic sacrifice to help its richer successors.

然而，尼古拉斯爵士却要求如今的一代，做出经济上的牺牲，以帮助后世更加富裕的子孙们。

It is a moral issue because decisions by the present generation will have a profound effect on future generations.

之所以这是一个道德问题是因为我们这一代的决定将对我们后代的未来产生深远影响。

A number of institutions revered and respected in earlier times have become Aunt Sally for the present generation.

一些早年受到尊崇的惯例，现在已经成了这代人嘲弄的对象了。

To them nothing is more important than those things, which is often regarded as the views of the present generation.

对于他们来说没有比这些更重要的东西，往往被视为这一代的观点。

I admit that the present generation is lazy, but lazy enough that they would need an ice-cream cone which revolves by itself?

我承认如今的一代人很懒，可多懒的人才需要这样一个可以自动旋转的冰淇淋筒啊？

The costs of mitigating climate change are the sacrifices the present generation will have to make to reduce greenhouse gases.

减轻气候变化的成本是当代人为了减少温室气体排放而应作出的牺牲。

I predict that it will be as essential to the present generation as the SEI and its Capability Maturity Model were to the last.

预计它对于目前一代的重要性就象SEI及其能力成熟度模型对上一代的重要性一样。

A genius is doomed to bad luck, whose heresy is rejected by the present generation and whose limit is rejected by the future generation.

天才的命运注定是不幸的：当代人批判他的异端；后代人批判他的局限。

In such a growth environment, the average income in the next generation would be more than six times larger than that in the present generation.

在这样一个增长环境下，下一代人的人均收入将是这一代人的六倍多。

Most of the costs of controlling climate change must be borne in the near future, when the present generation must sacrifice some of its consumption.

控制气候变化的主要成本一定是产生于较近的将来，当现代人必须牺牲一些他们的消费时。

The choice is awesome and potentially eternal. It is in the hands of the present generation: a decision we cannot or celebrated through all the generation that follow.

这一抉择非常艰难，而且可能是永恒的。它就握在这代人的手中：这是我们不能逃避的决定，也是让今后世世代代或痛心疾首或赞扬称颂的抉择。

He views the federal deficit as a moral issue as well as an economic one, because "the day of reckoning" for the excesses of the present generation is being deferred to the future.

他认为联邦赤字既是道德问题，也是经济问题，因为当代的无节制将殃及后代。

To meet the need of the present generation but not to violate that of the successive generations is the exclusive principle to follow in the protection and exploitation of cultural resources.

既满足当代人的需求，又不对满足后代的需要产生危害，是文化资源的保护与开发必须遵循的惟一原则。

The company has also worked hard to produce a device that is faster than the present generation of iPhones, although it may not be a match for the souped-up versions that have just been unveiled.

它也努力生产比这一代iPhone操作速度更快的手机，然而，这也许并不是为了赶超刚发布的超酷的那款机型。

The present leaders have to decide whether to hand over to a younger generation.

现任领导者们必须决定是否把工作移交给较年轻的一代负责。

Being familiar with technology is not an option but a necessity for present and future generation.

对现在和将来的一代人而言，熟悉技术不是一项选择而是生活必需。

A new generation of biographers can present them with understanding as well as reverence, as great men rather than marble statuary.

新一代的传记作家，将建国者们看作伟人而不是大理石雕像，表现出对他们的理解和爱戴。

Both countries at present rely heavily on coal for electricity generation, which both will be boosting hugely in coming decades.

目前两国都严重依赖于煤电，而两国在未来几十年里都会出现发电量激增的局面。

He read my poems and included some of them in a kind of reading he organized to present the work of the younger generation at a Chilean-North American institute.

他读了我的诗歌，包括一些他编排推荐的智利-北美研究学院里的较年轻一代的作家作品。

Notwithstanding their present political disenfranchisement, post-Soviet Russians will not be a "lost generation.

并不是只有美国人不理解和不接受这头一次完全后苏维埃的一代俄罗斯人。

Generation gaps are present in every part of the world.

代沟存在于世界各地。

Instead, the country coasts along on the education-itself far from perfect-provided a generation or so ago to its present workforce.

相反这个国家沿海岸线地区的教育，尽管本身十分不足，却为一代甚至一代以前提供了劳动力。

Data capture and dynamic document generation are often critical elements of enterprise applications, and can present difficult challenges.

数据获取和动态文档生成通常是企业应用程序的关键元素，可能是艰难的挑战。

From the middle days of the brand's life cycle up until present day, Coca-Cola has addressed a variety of environmental and health issues that speak directly to the concerns of each generation.

从品牌的生命周期的中间岁月一直到当今，可口可乐公司已经处理了许多有关环保和健康的每一代人所关心的问题。

There were attendants from every generation and remarkably, many women drivers were present.

各个年龄段都有，还有很多的女司机。

If the petroleum geologists' view of oil generation and migration are not accepted, then present exploration methods would need extensive modification.

如果石油地质学者关于油气生成和运移的观点不被接受，那么目前的勘探方法需要大幅度改变。

Like many other members of the youth generation, past and present, I care about social justice.

和许多过去现在的年轻一代一样，我在乎的是社会公正。