You'll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying.

你将成长在婴儿潮时期的那代人将要退休和逐渐死去的时代。

You will be growing up in the generation where the baby-boomers are going into retirement and dying.

在你们即将长大的这个时代，婴儿潮时期出生的一代人即将退休和死亡。

Even apart from the increased competition, the kids enter a process that has been utterly transformed from the one baby boomers knew.

甚至除了日益激烈的竞争，孩子们还进入了一个完全不同于婴儿潮一代的进程当中。

Despite trade competition and outsourcing, American manufacturing still needs to replace tens of thousands of retiring boomers every year.

尽管存在贸易竞争和业务外包，但美国制造业每年仍需要更替数万名即将退休的婴儿潮一代的人。

Older Americans are also the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. workforce, and boomers are expected to live longer than previous generations.

在美国，老年人也是美国劳动力中增长最快的群体，而婴儿潮这一代的寿命预计比前几代人更长寿。

As baby boomers came of high-school age, big schools promised economic efficiency, a greater choice of courses, and, of course, better football teams.

随着二战后婴儿潮时期出生的人进入高中，大型学校承诺提高经济效率，提供更多课程选择，当然，还提供更好的足球队。

But the Labor Department's latest jobs reports and other recent data reports present a strong case for crowning baby boomers as the greatest victims of the recession and its dreadful consequences.

但美国劳工部最新的就业报告和其他最新数据报告有力地证明了婴儿潮一代是经济衰退及其可怕后果的最大受害者。

Age is naturally a factor—only 58 percent of Generation Ys still use landlines now and then, compared to 84 percent of Baby Boomers who've perhaps had the same home number for 50 years.

年龄自然是一个因素，现在只有58%的 Y 世代的人们还时不时地用到座机，相比之下，有84%的婴儿潮世代的人们，家里的电话号码已经50年没有变了。

That said, to be honest the only people who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers parents, to the point where we play a game and guess who is calling before we pick up the phone (using Caller ID would take the fun out of it).

也就是说，事实上唯一给我们家里打电话的人是我们婴儿潮世代的父母。所以我们会玩一个游戏，在拿起电话之前猜是谁在打电话（使用来电显示功能会让游戏失去乐趣）。

Despite trade competition and outsourcing, American manufacturing still needs to replaces tens of thousands of retiring boomers every year.

尽管贸易竞争和业务外包现象依旧存在，美国的制造业每年仍需替换掉成千上万退休劳工的劳动力。

The baby boomers were one such bulge.

婴儿潮就是这类暴增的一例。

The baby boomers enjoyed an incredible spending binge.

婴儿潮这一代人无休止地享受高消费。

The baby boomers pulled back their spending in 2009.

2009年，婴儿潮一代人削减了开支。

The first wave of Baby Boomers turned 65 earlier this year.

今年早些时候，婴儿潮第一批出生的人已经达到了65岁的高龄。

Then the second effect kicks in: The boomers start to retire.

接着，第二个影响开始：婴儿潮出生的人开始退休。

We baby-boomers have grown up. We know there are limits to freedom.

我们这些婴儿潮时代的人已经长大了，我们知道自由也有限度。

To which we could also add that Baby Boomers got John Lennon's life.

对婴儿潮一代他们这代人，我们还可以加上约翰·列侬的一生。

Eventually, the last echoes of the global baby boomers will fade away.

最终，出生于全球婴儿潮中的那一批人将退下历史舞台。

Many boomers look after children and crumbling parents simultaneously.

许多婴儿潮一代的人同时照顾小孩和他们的父母。

We also know there's a baby bust generation following the baby boomers.

我们还知道，婴儿潮一代之后出生率骤然下降。

Who said Baby Boomers would never accept their parents' doctor's brand?

谁说婴儿潮时代出生的人将永远不可能接受其父母的医生所开汽车的品牌？

For the baby boomers' children, mass unemployment will be something new.

对于“婴儿潮时期出生的人”的子女，大量失业将是新鲜事。

At present the newspaper-loving baby-boomers are propping up circulation.

目前出生在婴儿潮期间爱读报纸的人是报纸发行的重要支撑力量。

That is the biggest way in which baby boomers have cheated their children.

这是婴儿潮一代对下一代最大的欺骗。

Now that the boomers themselves are retiring, the cost is becoming clear.

由于婴儿潮时期出生的人现在也退休了，成本有多高已经很明显了。

Baby boomers believe that middle age lasts until they are 70, a study has found.

一个调查显示，婴儿潮时代出生的人相信中年时期会持续到70岁。

That toll was expected to rise sharply as population grew and baby boomers aged.

那时估计这个死亡数字会随着人口增长和婴儿潮那代人变老而大幅提高。

“Life enhancement technology for boomers is a chicken-and-egg problem, ” he says.

“为老年潮生活质量提高的科技就是母鸡和鸡蛋的问题，”他说。

Joining social networks is also becoming a widely popular among the younger Boomers.

加入到社交网络也在年轻婴儿潮生人中变得越来越流行了。

At the same time, however, the boomers' ageing will create problems for America.

但是，这一代人的变老同时会给美国带来问题。