Compared with their parents, young people in the Odyssey period also have many remarkable characteristics: regular "dating" gives way to Facebook or "talking big" with friends.

和父輩相比，奧德賽時期的年輕人還有很多顯著的特點：中規(guī)中矩的“約會”讓位給了Facebook或者和朋友在一起“侃大山”。

Marriage becomes "cohabitation" or simply living in parents' home; Time to read newspapers gives way to blogs (in 1970, 49% of American young people in their 20s read newspapers every day; today, the number drops to 21%).

結婚變成了“同居”或者干脆賴在父母家里??；讀報紙的時間讓位給博客(1970年，49%的美國20幾歲的年輕人每天讀報，如今，這個數(shù)字下降到21%)。

Young people in the Odyssey period also held the banner of "gender revolution". Today, 36 percent of American women in their 20s have a college degree, compared with 23 percent of their male peers.

奧德賽時期的年輕人還秉持了“性別革命”的大旗。今天，36%的美國20幾歲女性工作人員擁有大學學位，相比之下，只有23%的男性同齡人持有大學學位。

In line with this, the wages of female staff have also increased a lot, while the wages of male staff are at a standstill.

與之相匹配的是，女性工作人員的工資處也漲了不少，而男性工作人員的工資則處于停滯時期。

In the Odyssey period, this phenomenon did not only happen in the United States. In some European countries, young people delayed marriage and kept changing between school and work for a longer time than young people in the United States.

奧德賽時期這一現(xiàn)象不只發(fā)生在美國，歐洲一些國家的年輕人在推遲婚姻，以及在學校和工作之間不停的轉換方面比美國年輕人持續(xù)的時間還要長。

It seems that the Odyssey period is a world trend.

看來，奧德賽時期是一個世界趨勢了。