休閑對(duì)話：垮掉的一代

Bob: Have you heard of The Beat Generation?

你聽說過垮掉的一代嗎?

Tom: What?

什么?

Bob: The Beat Generation, and it refers to a group of writer who lived and became famous at the 1950s to 1970s in American.

垮掉的一代，這是指美國(guó)五十年代到七十年代成名的一群作家。

Tom: Why called they the Beat Generation?

為什么稱呼他們?yōu)榭宓舻囊淮?

Bob: Their thoughts and behavior were strange and crazy, and most of the representative men were all gays and junkies.

他們的思想和行為很奇怪瘋狂，而且大部分的代表人物都是同性戀和吸毒者。

Tom: Wow, they were crazy, weren’t they?

哇，他們瘋了，不是嗎?

Bob: They were just dissatisfied with the policies of government.

他們只是對(duì)政府的政策不滿。

Tom: Why did they take drugs?

為什么他們要吸毒呢?

Bob: It might be their way of showing their dissatisfaction.

這是他們表達(dá)不滿的一種方式吧?

Tom: I wouldn’t do something bad to myself.

我是不會(huì)做傷害自己的事情的。