从美国“迷惘的一代”看当今中国年轻人的生活Analysis of Todays Chinese Youth Through “The Lost Generation” in AmericaAbstractNowadays, the Chinese youth are considered as “The Lost Generation”, and they are being criticized by the elders all day, because they do a lot of perverse things just like “The Lost Generation” in America which the elders cannot understand. Many of todays Chinese youth do things to oppose the tradition, they are becoming more and more indifferent and apathetic and their desire of becoming famous is stronger than ever before. It seems that they are very happy and they do not care about anything, but actually, they are dissatisfied with their life and the society and suffering a lot in their hearts. But few people know about this and understand them. Nowadays, getting a house and a satisfactory job are so difficult; in the acquisitive society, money becomes more important than ever before and money worship is becoming more and more popular; there are unfair phenomena here and there in the society, which make people hopeless; the lack of honesty makes people difficult to trust each other, which results in the feeling of insecurity of people; and people are becoming indifferent and apathetic. The social environment influences peoples life deeply, so the Chinese youth need a good social environment. But, people themselves are the most important factor. So, the Chinese youth must do something to help themselves, too. This paper is to talk about the life of todays Chinese youth by making a comparison with “The Lost Generation” in America, and the methods of improving the situation.Key WordsComparison; life; dissatisfaction; pressure; society摘要当今中国年轻一代被不少人称作“迷惘的一代”，他们也不断地受到老一辈人的批评， 因为他们就像美国一战后的“迷惘的一代”一样，行为另类，而他们的行为是老一辈人所不能理解的。现在很多中国年轻人做出很多反传统的事情；变得越来越冷漠和麻木；成名的愿望空前强烈。表面上他们逍遥快活，好像对什么事情都漠不关心，但实际上他们对自己的生活和社会都很不满意，内心也很痛苦。但是没有多少人知道这一切，也没有多少人能够理解他们。现在，买一套房子和找到一份满意的工作非常困难；在这个物欲横流的社会里，金钱似乎变得无比重要，拜金主义也变得非常流行；社会上到处都存在着不公平现象，这让人们对社会非常失望；诚信的缺乏也使人们很难相信彼此，人们丧失了安全感；变得越来越冷漠和麻木。社会环境对人们的生活有着巨大的影响，所以当今中国年轻一代需要一个好的社会环境。但是，最重要的因素还是他们自己，因此他们必须努力帮助自己。本文通过把当今中国年轻一代与美国“迷惘的一代”作比较的方式来谈谈当今中国年轻一代的生活，以及如何改善他们的生活现状。关键词比较；生活；不满意；压力；社会 IntroductionThere is a program in HNTV named Portrait of Change of Life, which once told a story about two boys who exchanged their life deliberately. One is named Wei Cheng a boy living in the city, and the other is Gao Zhanxi a boy living in the countryside. After a weeks exchange of life, both of them changed a lot. During the exchange, Wei Cheng changed from a “lost” boy to a well-behaved boy because of the hard life in the countryside. In the past, Wei Cheng did not like study, spent too much time on the Internet, did not get along well with his parents, did not know his life goal and did not have any ideal at all. Gao Zhanxi studied hard and treated his parents well, after he came to the colorful city, he was “lost” for some time, but he found himself back when he knew that life in the city was hard as well. In China, there are so many young people just like the unchanged Wei Cheng, some of whom even do various crazy things. They seek excitements, do things against the tradition, lack faith, lay too much stress on material life and so on. Because of the above, some people consider them as “The Lost Generation”.The term The Lost Generation came from an American woman writer named Gertrude Stein(1874-1946), who had lived in Paris since 1903. She welcomed these young writers to her apartment, and gave them encouragement and help. She called these young writers The Lost Generation by saying to a mechanic in Hemingways presence that You are all a lost generation. (Ding Yongshu, 296)The post-World War I generation was also collectively called “The Lost Generation”, and the term in this paper refers to the whole generation.They were a generation devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization that was traditionally American. They found the old America was gone, and they saw instead a lonely, dehumanized, mechanized world, in which they felt, more strongly than ever, that they were no longer bound to each other by traditional standards of conduct or by the structure of their society. They had a sense of floating in a void as fragments of a society that had been blown into bits and pieces and was no longer whole. Theirs is a sense of loneliness, alienation, and fragmentation. (Ding Yongshu, 195)The Chinese youth are considered as “The Lost Generation” because their behavior is similar to that of “The Lost Generation” in America. Although this title has not been permitted by the authority yet, no one can deny the existence of this phenomenon in the real life. These perverse things done by the Chinese youth just reflect their dissatisfactions with the society and the unhappiness in their hearts. Their present situation is far from their satisfactions, and both society and individuals should make efforts to change the situation.I. The Comparison Between “The Lost