from generation to generation

基本解释

However, early music was not handed down from generation to generation or recorded.
然而，早期音樂卻未能代代相傳或記錄下來。
We will make special efforts to educate our younger generations so that the traditional friendship between China and Africa will be passed on from generation to generation.
要調動各方麪的積極性，開展中非之間全方位的友好工作，特別要加強對年輕一代的教育，使中非傳統友誼代代相傳。
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And therein lies the dangerous hypothesis: if all these attributes go hand in hand, it is much more plausible to suggest that economic success is passed on from generation to generation.
這其中存在一個危險的假設：如果所有這些特質都密切相關，經濟上的成功可以代代相傳的觀點似乎就更加可信。

"You can imagine the impact that this would have on whole communities throughout the country and why there would be such passions that have been passed on from generation to generation even at the remove of one hundred fifty years."
The legends, just stories from generation to generation, changed, and molded, but nonetheless, retaining certain elements of the earlier tradition.
那些傳奇,僅僅是一些代代相傳的故事,它們被改編,被扭曲,盡琯這樣,仍保畱了一些早期的傳統元素
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡介課程節選
And this new pharaoh will enslave the Israelites, and so embitter their lives, that their cry will rise up to heaven the same cry from the generation of the flood, the same cry from Sodom and Gomorrah.
這個新法老將會迫使以色列人爲奴，他如此激怒他們，他們的哭號傳至天堂,就像大洪水時期一樣的哭號，像來自罪惡之城俄摩拉城一樣的哭號。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節選

First, they're affected by the vast racial businesses and wealth that are passed down from generation to generation.
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