age
美 [e?d?] 
英 [e?d?]
- n.年齡；年齡段；時期；老年
- v.變老；使顯老；使變老；使蒼老
- 網絡時代；年紀；壽命
詞形變化
復數：ages 現在分詞：aging 過去式：aged 同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | [c][u] 年齡the number of years that a person has lived or a thing has existed |
| He left school at the age of 18. 他 18 歲讀完中學。 |
| She needs more friends of her own age. 她需要更多的同齡朋友。 |
| children from 5–10 years of age 5 至 10 歲的兒童 |
| Young people of all ages go there to meet. 不同年齡的年輕人都去那里聚會。 |
| When I was your age I was already married. 我在你這個年紀時已經結婚了。 |
| He started playing the piano at an early age . 他幼年開始彈鋼琴。 |
| All ages admitted. 老幼均可入內。 |
| Children over the age of 12 must pay full fare. 12 歲以上兒童須購全票。 |
| She was beginning to feel her age(= feel that she was getting old) . 她開始感到自己上年紀了。 |
| He was tall for his age(= taller than you would expect, considering his age) . 以他的年齡，他算高個子。 |
| There's a big age gap between them(= a big difference in their ages) . 他們的年齡相差很大。 |
| ways of calculating the age of the earth 計算地球年齡的方法 |
2. | [u][c] 年齡段a particular period of a person's life |
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| 15 is an awkward age. 15 歲是個尷尬的年紀。 |
| He died of old age. 他終其天年。 |
3. | [c] （歷史上的）時代，時期a particular period of history |
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| the age of the computer 計算機時代 |
4. | [u] 老年；陳年；破舊；老化the state of being old |
| Wine improves with age . 陳酒味濃。 |
| The jacket was showing signs of age. 這件夾克已露出破舊的痕跡。 |
| the wisdom that comes with age 隨著年齡而增加的智慧 |
| I waited for ages . 我等了好長時間。 |
| It'll probably take ages to find a parking space. 大概得老半天才能找到停車位。 |
| Carlos left ages ago . 卡洛斯老早就離開了。 |
| It's been an age since we've seen them. 我們有很長一段時間沒有見到他們了。 |
6. | [c] 期a length of time which is a division of an epoch |
| As he aged, his memory got worse. 他隨著年事增高，記憶力就變差了。 |
| The population is aging(= more people are living longer) . 人口正在老齡化。 |
2. | [t] 使顯老；使變老；使蒼老to make sb/sth look, feel or seem older |
| The shock has aged her. 這次打擊讓她顯得蒼老了。 |
| Exposure to the sun ages the skin. 太陽暴曬會使皮膚粗老。 |
3. | [i][t] （使）成熟，變陳to develop in flavour over a period of time; to allow sth to do this |
| The cheese is left to age for at least a year. 這種奶酪至少要擱一年才成熟。 |
| The wine is aged in oak casks. 這種酒是用櫟木酒桶放陳的。 |
習慣用語
be/act your age
行為和年齡相稱；舉止不再有孩子氣to behave in a way that is suitable for sb of your age and not as though you were much younger
come of age
成年；達到法定年齡when a personcomes of age , they reach the age when they have an adult's legal rights and responsibilities
成熟；發達if sthcomes of age , it reaches the stage of development at which people accept and value it
look your age
容貌與年齡相當to seem as old as you really are and not younger or older
under age
未到法定年齡not legally old enough to do a particular thing
| It is illegal to sell cigarettes to children who are under age. 售香煙給未到法定年齡的孩子是非法的。 |
英漢解釋
n. | 6. 〈口〉很長的時間 a man in his green old age 童顏老者 |
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英英解釋
例句
At the age of 30, after a power struggle with a more experienced executive who had been hired to run the start-up company, he was out.
在他30歲那年，因為與被聘來經營這家初創公司的更有經驗的高管發生了權力斗爭，他離開了蘋果。
At the age of 21, he started the rough journey of travelling around China in a wheelchair with a map and a compass.
歲的時候，這個年輕人竟懷揣一幅地圖，手持一個指南針，搖著輪椅踏上了走遍全中國的艱難路途。
A woman never acknowledges such a nondescript age as forty-eight unless she is going to marry a widower with seventeen children.
一個女人決不會承認象四十八歲這樣一個難以歸類的年齡，除非她準備帶著十七個孩子嫁給一個鰥夫。
Haggis decided at an early age to be a writer, and he made his own comic books.
哈吉斯很小就決定當一個作家，他創作了自己的滑稽故事書。
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
安妮希望自己已經跨過了羞怯的年齡，但她肯定沒有跨過容易沖動的年齡。
Carlisle wasn't considering age too intently, as each of these decisions was spur-of-the-moment as well as life-or-death.
對于年齡卡萊爾并沒有太多的考量，每一個都是在生死關頭爭分奪秒所作出的決定。
Talabani also said he produced 74-year-old Aziz Aziz's age and partly out of sympathy for the other, because he is an Iraqi Christian.
塔拉巴尼還說，他對74歲的阿齊茲產生的同情一方面出于阿齊茲的年齡，另一方面也因為他是一名伊拉克的基督徒。
For those of us relying on healthy habits to get us to age 100, the findings from a new study of centenarians may come as a bit of a blow.
對指望靠健康的習慣就能活到百歲的人來說，一項對百歲老人的最新研究結果也許是一個小小的打擊。
The Gilded Age was one of extreme profligacy, both in business investment and sumptuous expenditure.
不管是商業投資、還是豪華消費，鍍金時代（GildedAge）都算得上極度揮霍的時期之一。
They carried out a series of research projects called Person Perception to see how people estimate the age of others.
研究人員進行了一系列“年齡直覺”的研究項目，觀察人們如何判斷其他人的年齡。
There was also evidence linking a legal drinking age of 18 to a higher rate of unplanned pregnancies among young women.
人們已經證實低齡婦女的意外懷孕率升高與規定法定飲酒年齡為18歲有關。
Vargas hopes to be able to promote legislation to approve such an early age as he came to the United States, immigrants can become citizens.
巴爾加斯希望，借此能推動立法，批準像他這樣自幼來到美國的外來移民能夠成為公民。
All that, and the rise of the son, makes a repeat White House run by the father morelikely, no matter his age.
所有這些，加上小保羅的冉冉升起，讓其父大保羅再度角逐白宮變得更為可能。
When my daughter reached the age of six, my wife and I decided to give her a small amount of pocket money.
我的女兒年滿6歲時，我妻子和我決定給她一些零花錢。
She appeared to be in her 30s ( "Why don't you guess my age, " said the rail-thin sex worker, when asked).
她看上去三十來歲。（當問到年紀的時候，這位骨瘦如柴的性工作者說：“你干嗎不猜猜我的年紀？”）
Today, at the food court in the mall, a beautiful girl about my age came up to me and hugged me with tears in her eyes.
今天，在百貨公司的食品區，一個年紀和我差不多大的姑娘跑過來，還著眼淚擁抱了我。
But how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age; he will speak for himself.
至于他如今怎么看見了，我們卻不知道，是誰開了他的眼睛，我們也不知道；你們問他吧，他已經成人，會替自己說話了。
Currently, in the United States, the general advice is for colonoscopy tests for colon cancer to begin at the age of 50.
目前，在美國一般在50歲開始就普遍建議做結腸癌檢查。
"Jessica, " said her mother, who was also a study in what good clothing can do for age, "push that pin down in your tie -- it's coming up. "
“杰西卡，”她母親說，她的穿著也可以幫助人們研究漂亮的服裝能怎樣美化上了年紀的人。“把領帶夾別牢--快脫出來了。”
"But by age 10, those memories seem to get crystallized, " she said.
“但是到10歲的時候，他們的早期記憶似乎被凍結了，”她說道。
She was beginning to feel her age .
她開始感到自己上年紀了。
Repose and security in her age, had set their stamp on her lined and serene face.
晚年的悠閑和保障都在她那布滿皺紋、安詳的臉上打下了烙印。
There was the population of all cities in the book, and the way to tell a girl's age, and the number of teeth a camel has.
書里面有各個城市的人口數，判斷女人年齡的方法和駱駝的牙齒數目。
At the age of fifteen, for a wager, he was disguised as a girl.
15歲時，作為賭注，他被打扮成個女孩。
She was received into the Christian church at the age of sixteen.
她十六歲時加入了基督教。
They were at the age 17 and 16, and tall of their age, had all the grandeur of men in the eyes of their little cousin.
他們一個十七，一個十六，個子比一般十六、七歲的人要高，在他們的小表妹的眼里，都儼然是大人了。
The best suggestion is that Jupiter is still contracting gravitationally despite its age of several billion years.
最好的說明是：木星盡管已有幾十億年的歷史，但由于引力作用，它仍在收縮。
He was some fifty years of age, and his popularity was at its height.
他年紀五十上下，聲望也達到了頂點。
This method is used for infants less than one year of age when ultrasound equipment is not available.
在沒有超聲波儀器時，用本法測量未滿周歲嬰兒的血壓。
By the age of 21 he controlled the company.
他21歲就掌管了公司。
She was a woman who, one felt, had never been handsome, but now, in middle age, was of distinctly prepossessing appearance.
她是這樣的一個女人：人們覺得，她以前并不漂亮，而現在，人到中年，卻顯然有了一種令人喜悅的外貌。
He was forty-five years of age, of medium height, fairly thick-set, not at all unprepossessing.
他已經45歲，中等身材，矮矮胖胖的，不完全是胸無城府的。
Would not his love, his tender care, and the advantages he could bestow upon her make her forget the question of age?
他的愛，他的一份真情，他可以給她的一切好處，難道不能使她忘掉年齡的問題嗎？
Tests at the age of seven provide a benchmark against which the child's progress at school can be measured.
七歲時進行的測試為孩子在學校中的學習發展提供了一個測量基準。
The poor young fellow, who was still just a boy, still at the age when feelings express themselves spontaneously, burst into tears.
可憐的青年這時還是一個孩子，還在極易流露感情的年紀，他眼淚涌了出來。
Lydia was a favourite with her mother, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.
麗迪雅是她母親的掌上明珠，由于嬌縱過度她很小就進入了社交界。
Gretchen was beautiful, her mother said, just as she had been when she was Gretchen's age.
格麗卿很美麗，她母親說，就象她自己在格麗卿的年齡時一樣。
She made no concession to his age; she expected him to work as hard as she did.
她絲毫也不體諒他的年齡，要求他干得像她一樣賣力。
At the age of 21, Sam returned to the river to realize an old ambition, that of being a Mississippi River steamboat pilot.
為了實現他的夙愿，二十一歲時，塞姆重返密西西比河，當了輪船舵手。
He is one of the leading minds of our age and deserves to be better known to the general public of all nations.
他是我們時代的卓越科學家之一，理所當然為世界各國公眾所推崇。
She was a woman of twenty-eight, I should think, though of a type whose age is always doubtful.
我想，她二十八歲，但是她是那種永遠讓人摸不清究竟多大歲數的女人。
China was the first foreign country he visited, at age 23, and he worked his way over as a sailor.
中國是他出游的第一個外國，當時他二十三歲，以充當水手的方式實現了那次旅行。
For a woman of her age, she was attractive.
在她那個年齡的婦女中，她算是楚楚動人的了。
At the age of fifteen she gave up taking piano lessons to concentrate on her school work.
她十五歲時，不再學習鋼琴，而是開始專心于上學。
Until adversity and tragedy befell him in middle age, William Holden Bell had lived a reasonably successful and happy life.
威廉·霍爾頓·貝爾在生活和事業上一直相當心滿意足，不料到了中年，卻時去運衰，屢遭不幸。
She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth.
她正十八歲，清秀，靦腆，滿懷著年輕無知的幻想。
His age and a veneer of dignity made of this too recent incidents a pretty squalid minor mistake.
那么以他的年紀和風度而言，他足可以使眼前的小事化為微不足道的細枝末節。
The children average seven years of age.
這些孩子平均年齡為7歲。
He congratulated him on entering the bonds of matrimony at an age when many young men thought only of their pleasures.
他祝賀新郎年紀輕輕就承擔起婚姻的責任，而許多年輕男人在這樣的年紀還只考慮如何尋歡作樂。
The cheese is left to age for at least a year.
這種奶酪至少要擱一年才成熟。
He said the coffin dates back to the 21st Dynasty, right after the end of the New Kingdom and the golden age of Egypt.
他說這副棺材可以追溯到第二十一朝，剛好就在新王國及埃及黃金時代終結之后。
Deformation, division, fuzzy, "abstract" image is in this day and age of human psychological state of specific visual symbol.
變形、分裂、模糊、“抽象”的形象正是處于這個時代的人類心理狀態的具體可視的象征。
At the age of six, while I was eating a big apple, something hard pressed against my tongue. I spat it out. It was a tooth.
我六歲那年，有一次在吃一個大蘋果時，有個東西壓在了我的舌頭上，吐出來，原來是顆牙齒。
If I put my hand down your pants and play with your balls for 10 minutes, I will be able to tell you your exact age.
只要我把手放進你的內褲里，玩你的蛋蛋十分鐘，我就會知道你的準確年齡。
The number is not a surprise at all, considering that the age of college students is usually between 18 and 24.
因為大學生的年齡大都在18至24歲之間，所以這一數字并不令人吃驚。
Ah, but we live in aninternet age now, in which news is supposed to break at least a week before the event itself happens.
然而我們現在生活在一個互聯網的時代，一個新聞在事件本身發生至少一周之前就應該發布的時代。
Even at the end of her life at the age of 208? ? years, she was still working hard on a book on a dog and a cockroach.
即使在她208歲的生命的盡頭，她還在孜孜不倦地寫一本關于狗和蟑螂的書。
But he also noted that the average age of a Japanese farmer is 70. He said Japan will someday have no choice but to accept more imports.
但是同時他也指出日本農民的平均年齡在七十歲。他表示日本總有一天將別無選擇地接受更多的進口產品。
Over time, then, the story should be gradually expanded with more specific information to suit the child's age and maturity level, she said.
然后，隨著時間的推移，這個故事要漸漸涉及到更多適應孩子年齡和成熟程度的明確信息。
Many Americans still believe that if you work hard and save, by the age of 50 you could be a millionaire.
許多美國人仍然相信，如果努力工作并攢錢，那么到50歲時就有可能成為百萬富翁。
"We definitely recognize stopping the bottle at a year of age is not easy, and stopping it at 2 years of age may be even harder, " she said.
我們完全承認，停止一歲齡嬰幼兒的奶瓶喂養是不容易的，停兩歲的則會更難。
Candida Royalle was in the business during the golden age of porn and decided to make erotic films from a female perspective.
CandidaRoyalle在色情演員的黃金年齡就開始行動了，她決定從女性的欣賞角度拍色情電影。
How much harder did I make it on myself by waiting to begin my retirement savings until I was nearly 40 than starting at age 20?
如果我從快四十歲開始為退休存錢和我從二十歲就開始存錢，哪個會更難呢？
Sharon Lear learned to downhill ski, a sport which had previously terrified her, in Colorado at the age of 38.
科羅拉多州的雪倫?李爾在她三十八歲時學會了先前令她恐懼的下坡滑雪。
Omar Bongo was one of Africa's youngest leaders when he took power at the age of 31 after the death of Gabon's first president, Leon M'ba.
加蓬第一任總統萊昂·姆巴去世后，年僅31歲的奧馬爾·邦戈接管權力，成為非洲最年輕的首腦之一。
Being led to believe that old age is a nothing but a burden to others does not make the "dwindling" period any easier.
即便你去相信，人老后只是他人的累贅，“老化”的階段也不會變得容易。
Jesper Koll, economist at Merrill Lynch, said: "The golden age of pro-market reform is over. "
美林（MerrillLynch）經濟學家葉斯珀?科爾（JesperKoll）表示：“親市場改革的黃金時代已經結束。”
The son of Ronald Reagan was a self-declared atheist at age 12 and went down a very different path from his parents.
羅納德·里根的兒子羅恩12歲的時候，就宣稱自己是無神論者，與父母走了一條完全不同的道路。
A father-in-law must be a man of some group of age, and with some social relations due to his daughter's marriage.
岳父是一個一定年齡段的男人，再加上由他的女兒的婚姻而來的一些社會關系。
Ratzinger should have been more alarmed by the young age of the priest's victims; that's what maternal care would have entailed.
拉辛格更應該擔憂的應該是年紀更輕的受害者們，他們更需要母性關懷。
They turned to Europe and the past for comfort, and failed to understand their own age or their own country.
他們都只向歐洲和往事中去尋求慰藉；對于他們的時代和國家則一無所知。
We thought one reason Eleanor was so health-conscious was that both her parents had died at an early age.
我們以為埃利諾之所以對健康問題如此敏感，原因之一是她的父母過早地離開了人間。
Above all there was Mr. Churchill offering a splendid example at the age of 76.
特別是，七十六歲高齡的邱吉爾先生為大家樹立了光輝的榜樣。
Straight, strong and hard, there was nothing in his appearance that spoke positively either of youth or of age.
他挺拔、健壯，從他外表的任何一處，都很難判斷他年輕或年老。
My son will not assort with people of his own age.
我兒子決不和他的同齡人交往。
The boy has reached an adult age and ought to be earning his own living.
這孩子已經（到了）成年，應該自食其力了。
At the ripe old age of seven, I had fallen in love with the Melinda Cox Library.
在我滿七周歲時，我就深深地愛上了麥林達·考克斯圖書館。
Life often seems to be marked off into different periods: childhood, schooldays, marriage, old age, for example.
人的一生似乎常劃分為幾個不同時期，例如童年、學生時代、結婚、老年。
Apart from giving us Sellers, The Gilded Age is a confused book: its villains and its heroes are too easily interchangeable.
除開給了我們《塞勒斯》以外，《鍍金時代》是一本混亂的小說，惡棍和英雄都勾畫得不夠清楚。
By the age of 25 she was completely burned out and retired from the sport.
她到25歲時就已體力耗盡，退出了體壇。
