sandwich generation

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

Those in the sandwich generation often feel more stress than any other age group.
那些屬于“三明治的一代”的人經(jīng)常要比別的年齡層的人受到更多的壓力。
Members of the sandwich generation are usually at the peak of their professional careers and looking forward to some personal time.
三明治世代的成員通常正值他們事業(yè)的顛峰，渴望能有一些屬于個(gè)人的時(shí)間。
Some people argue that a better national health care plan would help ease the financial burden of the sandwich generation because keeping older people healthy costs a lot more money.
這個(gè)人發(fā)表意見說：“有的人認(rèn)為，一個(gè)比較好的全國保健計(jì)劃就能減輕那些上有老，下有小的那代人的經(jīng)濟(jì)負(fù)擔(dān)，因?yàn)橐３掷先松眢w健康得花好多錢。”

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a way of referring to the group of people who have old parents as well as young children, so they have to take care both of their parents and of their children