时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

   英语“年龄”表示法


  1?表示“整岁”,直接用基数词或year,age,例如“他20岁”可表示为:
  He is twenty.
  He is twenty years old.
  He is a twenty-year-old man.
  He is aged 1 twenty.
  He is at age twenty.
  He is at the age of twenty.
  He is twenty years of age.
  2?表示“在某人几十多岁”,用“in one's +基数词复数形式”,例如:
  他七十多岁。He is in his seventies.(从70岁到79岁之间)
  她五十多岁。She is in her fifties.(从50岁到59岁之间)
  还可以借助early,middle,late来表达得更明确一些,例如:
  那女孩今年二十二、三岁。The girl is in her early twenties.
  他今年十四、五岁。He is in his middle teens.
  她今年二十八、九岁。She is in her late twenties.
  3?表示“快满多少岁”用进行时或将来时,例如“他快满十八岁了”可说成:
  He is getting on for eighteen.
  He is going on eighteen years old.
  He willbe eighteen years old.
  It willbe his eighteenth birthday.
  4?表示“不满多少岁”,用副词barely 2,nearly,al- most,quite,yet,just等,例如“她不满十七岁”有以下几种说法:
  She is barely /nearly /almost seventeen.
  She is not quite /yet seventeen.
  She is just under seventeen.
  5?表示“差多久满多少岁”用介词off,例如:
  他差5个月就满19岁了。He is five months off nineteen.
  她再过3年就50岁了。She is three years off fifty.
  6?表示“超过多少岁”用介词past,例如:
  他已年过50。He is past fifty.
  他是一个过了中年的人。He is a man past middle age.
  那孩子两岁零两个月。The baby is two months past two years old.

adj.年老的,陈年的
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
adv.仅仅,几乎没有,几乎不
  • The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.雄鸟和雌鸟几乎无法辨别。
  • He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口。
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