Dictionary › 世代

世代

shì dài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

世代 (shì dài) means "for many generations; generation; era". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 世代 means

1. for many generations
2. generation
3. era
4. age

The characters in 世代

• 世shìlife; age; generation
• 代dàito be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation…

Example sentences

• 这次大选创造了多项第一，也诞生了很多将世代流传的故事。但是今天晚上令我难忘的却是在亚特兰大投票的一名妇女：安-尼克松-库波尔。她和其他数百万排队等待投票的选民没有什么差别，除了一点：她已是106岁的高龄。
  Zhè cì dàxuǎn chuàngzào le duō xiàng dìyī, yě dànshēng le hěn duō jiāng shìdài liúchuán de gùshi. dànshì jīntiān wǎnshang lìng wǒ nánwàng de quèshì zài Yàtèlándà tóupiào de yī míng fùnǚ: ān - Níkèsōng - kù bō ěr. tā hé qítā shùbǎiwàn páiduì děngdài tóupiào de xuǎnmín méiyǒushénme chābié, chúle yīdiǎn: tā yǐ shì 106 suì de gāolíng.
  This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election, except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
• 这次大选创造了多项第一，也诞生了很多将世代流传的故事。但是今天晚上令我难忘的却是在亚特兰大投票的一名妇女：安-尼克松-库波尔。她和其他数百万排队等待投票的选民没有什幺差别，除了一点：她已是106岁的高龄。
  This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election, except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
• 一只赛勒诺栖于岩石之上，你看，/ 那阴郁的女先知就这样嘎声道出她的末日预言。/「还有战争，拉俄墨冬两度背信的后裔！/ 你们带来的是战争，还偷杀了我们的牛群？/ 而你们还要将无辜的哈尔庇厄驱逐，/ 赶出她们古老、世代相传的领地？」
  One perched, Celaeno, on a rock, and lo, / thus croaked the dismal seer her prophecy of woe. / "War, too, Laomedon's twice-perjured race! / War do ye bring, our cattle stol'n and slain? / And unoffending Harpies would ye chase / forth from their old, hereditary reign?"

Words starting with 世代

• 世代相传shì dài xiāng chuánpassed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
• 世代交替shì dài jiāo tì(biology) alternation of generations; (fig.) generational succession…

Words containing 世代

• 次世代cì shì dàinext-generation
• Z世代Z shì dàiGeneration Z; Zoomers

Sounds the same

Read shì dài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 饰带sash; streamer

Where 世代 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shì (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shì dài correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.