详细释义
- 时代，时期
- 年龄，年龄段
- 老年，晚年
- 成年，法定年龄
- 破旧，老化
- 成熟，发达
- 【地】代
- （生命发展中的一个）阶段，时期
- [常用复数]<口>长时期，很长时间；许多年；几百年；长久
- 变老，上年纪；显老，苍老
- 使显老，使变老，使苍老，使衰老，催人老
- 变陈，陈化
- 成熟，使成熟
- 使味道变醇，使醇化
- 【化】老化，使老化
- [C][U]年龄,年纪 the amount of time that sb/sth has been in the world
- [U]人生的一个阶段 one of the periods of a person's life
- [U]老年,老 being old
- [S]时代,时期 a certain time in history
- vt. & vi. 长大,变老; 使苍老 become old or seem old
- vi. 变陈,变醇厚 become fitter for use with the passage of time; have a fully-developed taste
英英释义
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how long something has existed;
"it was replaced because of its age"
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an era of history having some distinctive feature;
"we live in a litigious age"
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a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises;
"she was now of school age"
"tall for his eld"
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a prolonged period of time;
"we've known each other for ages"
"I haven't been there for years and years"
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a late time of life;
"old age is not for sissies"
"he's showing his years"
"age hasn't slowed him down at all"
"a beard white with eld"
"on the brink of geezerhood"
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begin to seem older; get older;
"The death of his wife caused him to age fast"
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grow old or older;
"She aged gracefully"
"we age every day--what a depressing thought!"
"Young men senesce"
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make older;
"The death of his child aged him tremendously"
双语例句
- 1. Beauty is an attitude. It has nothing to do with age.
- 美是一种态度，与年龄无关。
来自金山词霸
- 2. He knew what he wanted to do from the age of 14.
- 他14岁起就知道自己日后干什么了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. In some cases there is a mini-mum age limit.
- 有些情况下有最低年龄限制。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. In his old age he became a benefactor of the arts.
- 他晚年成了一个艺术赞助人。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. He died in a nursing home at the age of 87.
- 他在一家养老院去世，享年87岁。
来自柯林斯例句
- What is your age?
你多大年纪？ - The child is at an impressionable age.
这孩子正处于易受影响的年龄。 - We are living in the age of technology.
我们生活在工业技术时代。 - Rome was in its prime in the age of Augustus.
罗马帝国的全盛期是在奥古斯都时代。 - Each civilization has its golden age.
每个文明都有它的鼎盛时期。 - I haven't seen you for ages.
我好久没见到你了。 - Anxiety ages us.
忧虑催人老。 - The death of his wife caused him to age fast.
他妻子的死使他变老了许多。 - The wine is put into oak casks to age.
酒被放进橡木桶中变陈。 - The cheese is left to age for at least a year.
这种奶酪至少要搁一年才成熟。
- It was difficult to tell his exact age.
很难说出他的确切年龄。 - At your age you should know better.
你这个年龄,应该懂点事了。 - They married at a late age.
他们年龄很大时才结婚。 - He became a doctor at the age of 27.
他27岁时成了一名医生。 - He looks young for his age.
他看上去比他的实际岁数小。 - Age was telling on him.
他显得衰老了。 - I am more than sixty.but I don't feel my age.
我已经60多岁了,但我并未觉得自己这么老。 - I haven't seen you for aɡes.
我好久没见到你了。 - The two boys are (of) the same age.
这两个男孩同龄。 - It's been ages since we met.
我们好久不见了。 - They took ages to mend the bike.
他们花了很长时间才把自行车修好。 - You are quite behind the age.
你远远地落后时代了。 - We are living in the computer age.
我们正生活在计算机时代。 - Those animals lived in the Middle Ages.
那些动物生活在中世纪。 - He is aging rapidly.
他老得很快。 - The wine aged well.
这酒陈得很好。 - The wine is put into oak casks to age.
酒被放在橡木桶中让其变陈。 - Fear and anxiety aged him overnight.
恐惧和忧虑使他一夜之间变老了。 - The fear of what might happen aged him.
对可能发生的事情的担忧使他变得苍老了。 - He is a boy aged ten.
他是个10岁的孩子。 - He is an aged man.
他是一个老年男子。
用法讲解
- age的基本意思是“年龄”“年纪”,引申还可指“长时间”, age还可指具有某种显著特征,或以杰出人物命名的历史时代,也指地质学、考古学中的“时代”。
- age表示“年龄”,可用作可数名词或不可数名词,表示“时代”,是可数名词,多用作单数形式,且以大写字母开头。
- age笼统指个人或多人的年龄时常用单数。但如果分别指各人的年龄,或age后面跟各个具体的年龄,这时常用复数。
- age表示“年龄”“年纪”时,与介词at连用,当表示“时代”“时期”时,与介词in连用,表示“长时间”时,要用介词for,表示“同龄”时,要用介词of, of可省略。
- age的基本意思是在不长的时间内“长大,老化,变老” “使苍老”。
- age还可指“(酒等)变陈”或“存一段时间再用”,往往表示因历时长久而变好,尤其指味道变醇厚。
- age可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词或代词作宾语。
- age的现在分词有两种形式：ageing和aging,前者更常见些。
- age的过去分词可用作前置形容词,表示“…岁的”“年老的”。
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age前加at，in或of，表示不同意思。
He died at the age of ninety.（age指“年龄”)
He is of my age.（age指“同年”） -
下列各句均表示相同意思：
I am twenty years of age.
I am twenty. -
注意下面的表达方式均不正确：
I am twenty of age.
以上有时指“我面容上老了二十年”的意思。 - at the age of ...结构中用the，不用an；
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advanced age指“高龄”，old age指“老年”。表达方式at an extremely old age和at a good old age是正确的；
He died at an advanced age.（NOT He died at an old age.）
He died in his old age.（NOT He died in his advanced age.) - age所在的表达方式when I was of your age，a man of twice my age，of what age he is等中，可省略of；
- middle age指“中年”，大概是四十到六十岁，而指“少年”时，常用youth，而不是young age；
- 不能说My age is young，而是说I am young；
- Middle Ages（或the middle ages）指“中世纪”，不可与middle age混用，而old age也不可指“古代”，应用ancient times表示；
- of an age指“同年龄的”，of the age指“当代的”，of age指“成年的”；
- 若从你出生到现在为十八年和几个月，可说eighteen，但实际已是第十九年，也可说 in my nineteenth year；
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for ages和for an age都指“经过了很长时间”。
He kept me waiting for ages.
他让我等了好久。He kept me waiting for an age.
- old age, advanced age
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- 这两个短语都可表示“老年”,但前面使用的介词不同。例如:
- Her father died in his old age.
- 她的父亲在他老年时去世。
- Her father died at an advanced age.
- 她的父亲在高龄时去世。
- of age, of an age, of the age
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- 这三个短语的意思并不相同。of age的意思是“成年的”; of an age的意思是“同年的”; of the age的意思是“当代的”。例如:
- The girl has been of age.
- 这姑娘已经成年了。
- They are of an age.
- 他们同龄。
- He is one of the great poets of the age.
- 他是当代伟大诗人之一。
- for age, in age
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- 这两个短语都表示“长时间”。区别是：后者主要用于美式英语。
- age, generation, period
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- 这三个词的共同意思是“时期”。其区别是：
- period是这组词中最一般的常用术语,用于任何时限,时间可长可短; age意为“时代,寿命”,常用来表示以一个中心人物或显著特征而闻名的时期; generation意为“代、世代”,用于上辈出世与下辈出世之间的时段,对人类来说这段时间有时可算作20年或25年,也可用于下辈本身。例如:
- The period in which people learnt to make tools of iron is called the Iron Age.人类学会用铁制造工具的时代,我们称为“铁器时代”。
- My generation behaves differently from my father's and grandfather's.我这一代人和我父辈及祖辈表现不同。
- age, develop, mature, mellow, ripen
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- 这组词的共同含义是“成熟,长成”。其区别是：
- mature不仅指身体上,也指精神、智力方面“成熟”; age则侧重“变老,老化”,可指人,也可指物; develop意为“生长,成长”,可指局部的,也可指整体的变化; mellow则指水果成熟、酒酿成,也可指人因年龄的增长,经验的积累而变得老练成熟; 而ripen的意思是“使…成熟”,着重指无生命的东西。
- age，epoch，era，period，times
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- 这些名词均含“时期、时代”之意。
- age常指具有显著特征或以某杰出人物命名的历史时代或时期。
- epoch正式用词，侧重指以某重大事件或巨大变化为起点的新的历史时期。
- era书面语用词，指历史上的纪元、年代，可与epoch和age互换，侧重时期的延续性和整个历程。
- period最普通用词，概念广泛，时间长短不限，既可指任何一个历史时期，又可指个人或自然界的一个发展阶段。
- times侧重某一特定时期。
- mature，ripen，age，develop
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- 这些动词均有“成熟、长成”之意。
- mature指生物自然发育成熟或丰满或使其能起正常作用，还可指人获得智慧、经验或变得世故。
- ripen侧重已到生长成熟的顶点。
- age一般指使人过早成熟，强调已走向衰老。
- develop侧重使某一种类或个体潜在本能进化完全，词义比mature广泛。
常见错误
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我们不知不觉进入中年。
误 We reach the middle age before we know it.
正 We reach middle age before we know it.
析 old age(老年)和middle age(中年)之前均不用冠词。
我在那个年龄经常放学后去打乒乓球。误 I used to play table tennis after school when I was in that age.
正 I used to play table tennis after school when I was that age.
析 that age作“那个年龄”讲,可以直接作表语或定语,不必加任何介词。
他年老背驼。误 His back is bent with ages.
正 His back is bent with age.
析 age在作“年老”解时是抽象名词,即是不可数名词,因此不能用复数形式。
我十六岁。误 I am at the age of sixteen.
误 I am sixteen of age.
正 My age is sixteen years.
析 at the age of在句中一般不可用作表语。
我们的老师是个年轻人。误 Our teacher is a young-aged man.
正 Our teacher is a young man.
析 “年轻人”和“老年人”应说a young〔old〕 man,只有“中年人”才可说a middle-aged man.
我儿子5岁。误 My son's age is five years old.
正 My son is five years old.
析 age与old是同义词,不可在一个句子中同时出现。
词源解说
- ☆ 14世纪进入英语，直接源自古法语的aage；最初源自拉丁语的aetatm，意为生命，生命力。
- be〔come〕 of age
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到了成年 reach the age at which one has an adult's legal rights and obligations
- under age
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未成年 not yet adult
- act one's age 举止与年龄相称
- ask sb's age 问某人的年龄
- be of age 成年
- carry one's age well 年老而精力旺盛
- come of age 成年
- live to a great age 活到高龄
- look one's age 和年龄相称
- provide against age 防老
- reach an age of 活到生命中的某一阶段
- take sb ages 花某人很多时间
- adult age 成年
- early age 早年
- golden age 黄金时代
- great age 很大的年纪,高寿,高龄
- middle age 中年
- old age 高龄
- present age 当代,现代
- ripe age 成年
- the Dark A- 欧洲中世纪,黑暗时代
- the Middle A- 中世纪
- young age 童年
- college age 入大学年龄
- high-school age 入中学年龄
- school age 入学年龄
- preschool age 学龄前时期
- the Ice A- 冰川时代
- the Iron A- 铁器时代
- the New Stone A- 新石器时代
- the Stone A- 石器时代
- an age ago 许久以前
- at an age 在某一年龄
- during the age 在…时代
- for an age 很久以前
- for ages 好久
- look young for one's age 看上去比实际上年轻
- from age to age 世世代代,一代一代(地)
- in all age 历来,今昔,常常
- in an age 在一个时代
- be of an age 属于某一年龄的
- people of all age 各种不同年龄的人
- be over age 超过适龄年限
- through the ages 历来,千秋万代
- be under age 未达适龄年限
- age a lot 老了许多
- age fast 老得很快
- age overnight 一夜之间变老了
- age very much 老了许多
- age well 陈得好
- age considerably 老了很多
- age greatly 老多了
- age quickly 老得很快
- age rapidly 老得很快
- age visibly 明显地变老
