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youthquake noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˈjuːθ.kweɪk/ us /ˈjuːθ.kweɪk/ an important social or political change that is started by young people: 青年运动大冲击,青年大骚动 Some commentators predict a "youthquake" in the coming elections.有评论家预测,在即将到来的选举中,会有一场“青年大骚动”。 There's a youthquake going on and it started online.发生了一场青年运动大冲击,是从网上开始的。 He writes that the youthquake of the 1960s pulled down social barriers and overthrew elitism. We were the youthquake: the sexual revolution, pop music, the start of the technological age. The term "youthquake" was coined in 1965 by Diana Vreeland, then editor of Vogue magazine. People quickly attributed the party's success to a "youthquake". SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Change and changes adaptive evolution adjustment alteration anti-evolutionism be ahead of the curveidiom evolutionary evolutionism flatten flip-flop fluctuation recalibration reconversion reformation regime change reinterpretation unspool unspooling unsteadily unsteady untick |