age
n. 年龄, 老年, 成年, 寿命, 时代, 时期 v. 变老, 成熟
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教材释义与例句
年龄；时代；寿命，使用年限；阶段
the number of years someone has lived or something has existed
成熟；变老
to start looking older or to make someone or something look older
释义与例句
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1.
The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)
年岁
年纪
年龄
世代
可数 不可数"What is the age of your oldest child?" — "He's ten." (ten years old)
What were their ages at the time of their marriage?
We can determine the age of fossils using radiometric dating.
What is the present age of the earth?
I have a daughter your age, and I tell her when I was your age I was already working.
You should play with kids the same age as you.
At your age, your mom and I'd already found a job.
We both have kids under age four.
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2.
The state of being old; the latter part of life.
老年
晚年
高龄
不可数 可数Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
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3.
Any particular stage of life.
年岁
岁数
年纪
年龄
可数 不可数the age of infancy
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4.
The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
可数 不可数the age of consent; the age of discretion
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5.
Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
成年
成人
不可数 可数to come of age; she is now of age
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6.
A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
时代
可数 不可数the golden age of cinema; the first age of colonialism; a bygone age
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7.
A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
The time or era in history when someone or something was alive or flourished.
可数 不可数the age of Pericles; the age of the dinosaurs
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8.
A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
A great period in the history of the Earth.
可数 不可数The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age.
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9.
A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
期
可数 地质 不可数The Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic Epoch.
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One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and governed by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
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A period of one hundred years; a century.
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A generation.
可数 过时 不可数There are three ages living in her house.
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A long time.
可数 不可数It’s been an age since we last saw you.
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14.
Lifespan, lifetime; the total time that some being is alive from birth to death (or some category of beings, on average).
一辈子
一生
寿命
可数 不可数The age of man is three score years and ten.
Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse.
Done at London, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, in the fifty-eighth year of my age.
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The entitlement of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
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1.
To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age.
老化
不及物He grew fat as he aged.
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2.
To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age.
To suffer the passage of time so as to later be viewed or turn out in a certain way.
不及物His prediction that we didn't stand a chance hasn't aged well, now that we've won the cup.
The sitcom was made in the 1970s and its casual sexism has not aged well.
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3.
To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
To treat or tamper with in order to give a false appearance of age.
及物This clock is modern, but it has been deliberately aged in an attempt to make it seem antique.
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4.
To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in existence).
及物There are several ways to age trees.
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5.
To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
及物Grief ages us.
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6.
To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
To allow to mature.
及物We age the whiskey for five years.
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To indicate or reveal that (a person) has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.
及物I clearly remember hearing the news of Kennedy's assassination. That ages me.
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8.
To allow (something) to persist by postponing an action that would extinguish it, as a debt.
比喻 及物Money's a little tight right now. Let's age our bills for a week or so.
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To categorize by age.
及物 金融 商务One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.
词汇关系
同义词 4
上位词 7
下位词 10
部分词 7
整体词 4
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu Proto-Italic *aiwom Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Proto-Italic *aiwotāts Vulgar Latin aetās Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Vulgar Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Vulgar Latin -icus Vulgar Latin -āticus Vulgar Latin -āticum Vulgar Latin *aetāticum Old French eagebor. Middle English age English age From Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”). Compare French âge. Displaced native Old English ieldu. The verb is from Middle English agen, from the noun. Originally found mostly as a participial adjective, probably an adjective in -ed, derived from the noun, reanalyzed to create a verb; perhaps modeled on such pairs as Latin senēscō (seneō; verb) / senex (adjective) and Middle French vieillir (verb) / vieil (adjective). Also compare Old French se aagier, eogier (“become of age”).
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