from generation to generation

基本解释

However, early music was not handed down from generation to generation or recorded.
然而，早期音乐却未能代代相传或记录下来。
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.
要调动各方面的积极性，开展中非之间全方位的友好工作，特别要加强对年轻一代的教育，使中非传统友谊代代相传。
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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.
这其中存在一个危险的假设：如果所有这些特质都密切相关，经济上的成功可以代代相传的观点似乎就更加可信。

"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.
那些传奇,仅仅是一些代代相传的故事,它们被改编,被扭曲,尽管这样,仍保留了一些早期的传统元素
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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.
这个新法老将会迫使以色列人为奴，他如此激怒他们，他们的哭号传至天堂,就像大洪水时期一样的哭号，像来自罪恶之城俄摩拉城一样的哭号。
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First, they're affected by the vast racial businesses and wealth that are passed down from generation to generation.
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