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1·And yet Sir Nicholas asks the present generation to make an economic sacrifice to help its richer successors.

然而，尼古拉斯爵士却要求如今的一代，做出经济上的牺牲，以帮助后世更加富裕的子孙们。

2·It is a moral issue because decisions by the present generation will have a profound effect on future generations.

之所以这是一个道德问题是因为我们这一代的决定将对我们后代的未来产生深远影响。

3·A number of institutions revered and respected in earlier times have become Aunt Sally for the present generation.

一些早年受到尊崇的惯例，现在已经成了这代人嘲弄的对象了。

4·To them nothing is more important than those things, which is often regarded as the views of the present generation.

对于他们来说没有比这些更重要的东西，往往被视为这一代的观点。

5·I admit that the present generation is lazy, but lazy enough that they would need an ice-cream cone which revolves by itself?

我承认如今的一代人很懒，可多懒的人才需要这样一个可以自动旋转的冰淇淋筒啊？

6·The costs of mitigating climate change are the sacrifices the present generation will have to make to reduce greenhouse gases.

减轻气候变化的成本是当代人为了减少温室气体排放而应作出的牺牲。

7·I predict that it will be as essential to the present generation as the SEI and its Capability Maturity Model were to the last.

预计它对于目前一代的重要性就象SEI及其能力成熟度模型对上一代的重要性一样。

8·A genius is doomed to bad luck, whose heresy is rejected by the present generation and whose limit is rejected by the future generation.

天才的命运注定是不幸的：当代人批判他的异端；后代人批判他的局限。

9·In such a growth environment, the average income in the next generation would be more than six times larger than that in the present generation.

在这样一个增长环境下，下一代人的人均收入将是这一代人的六倍多。

10·Most of the costs of controlling climate change must be borne in the near future, when the present generation must sacrifice some of its consumption.

控制气候变化的主要成本一定是产生于较近的将来，当现代人必须牺牲一些他们的消费时。