Bob: Have you heard of The Beat Generation?

你听说过垮掉的一代吗?

Tom: What?

什么?

Bob: The Beat Generation, and it refers to a group of writer who lived and became famous at the 1950s to 1970s in American.

垮掉的一代，这是指美国五十年代到七十年代成名的一群作家。

Tom: Why called they the Beat Generation?

为什么称呼他们为垮掉的一代?

Bob: Their thoughts and behavior were strange and crazy, and most of the representative men were all gays and junkies.

他们的思想和行为很奇怪疯狂，而且大部分的代表人物都是同性恋和吸毒者。

Tom: Wow, they were crazy, weren’t they?

哇，他们疯了，不是吗?

Bob: They were just dissatisfied with the policies of government.

他们只是对政府的政策不满。

Tom: Why did they take drugs?

为什么他们要吸毒呢?

Bob: It might be their way of showing their dissatisfaction.

这是他们表达不满的一种方式吧?

Tom: I wouldn’t do something bad to myself.

我是不会做伤害自己的事情的。