例句-1: "President Bill Clinton's election in 1992 was a transfer of power from the old generation to the new generation -- he's the first baby boomer to be elected to the White House."
例句-2: "Population growth has slowed down in the United States since the baby boomers became adults. They're simply not having as many children as their parents did."
你要是查1983年以前出版的字典,你可能还找不到yuppy这个字。实际上,yuppy是一个缩略字,它是由 young urban professional这三个字的第一个字母组成的,也就是yup。后面再加上p和y这两个字母来形成第二个音节。新出版的字典会告诉你,所谓yuppies就是那些很有抱负,受过高等教育,住在大城市有专业性的工作,生活很富裕的年轻人。很多baby boomers后来变成了yuppy。 请听一位yuppy的自白吧。
例句-3: "I guess you can call me a yuppy. I'm 37 and I make enough money to afford the right things in life. See this gold Rolex watch? I eat in the best restaurants and drink a good wine instead of whiskey. Yes, of course, I drive a BMW."
例句-4: "The trouble with most yuppies is that they don't have independent minds of their own. They follow the latest fashions in food, wine, clothes, cars and amusement like a herd of sheep."