age

US [eɪdʒ]
UK [eɪdʒ]
Plural Form：ages  Present Participle：aging  Past Tense：aged  

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age
n.
1.
[c][u]
年龄the number of years that a person has lived or a thing has existed
He left school at the age of 18.
他 18 岁读完中学。
She needs more friends of her own age.
她需要更多的同龄朋友。
children from 5–10 years of age
5 至 10 岁的儿童
Young people of all ages go there to meet.
不同年龄的年轻人都去那里聚会。
When I was your age I was already married.
我在你这个年纪时已经结婚了。
He started playing the piano at an early age .
他幼年开始弹钢琴。
All ages admitted.
老幼均可入内。
Children over the age of 12 must pay full fare.
12 岁以上儿童须购全票。
She was beginning to feel her age(= feel that she was getting old) .
她开始感到自己上年纪了。
He was tall for his age(= taller than you would expect, considering his age) .
以他的年龄，他算高个子。
There's a big age gap between them(= a big difference in their ages) .
他们的年龄相差很大。
ways of calculating the age of the earth
计算地球年龄的方法
2.
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年龄段a particular period of a person's life
middle age
中年
15 is an awkward age.
15 岁是个尴尬的年纪。
He died of old age.
他终其天年。
3.
[c]
（历史上的）时代，时期a particular period of history
the nuclear age
核时代
the age of the computer
计算机时代
4.
[u]
老年；陈年；破旧；老化the state of being old
Wine improves with age .
陈酒味浓。
The jacket was showing signs of age.
这件夹克已露出破旧的痕迹。
the wisdom that comes with age
随着年龄而增加的智慧
5.
[pl]
(informal)
很长时间a very long time
I waited for ages .
我等了好长时间。
It'll probably take ages to find a parking space.
大概得老半天才能找到停车位。
Carlos left ages ago .
卡洛斯老早就离开了。
It's been an age since we've seen them.
我们有很长一段时间没有见到他们了。
6.
[c]
期a length of time which is a division of an epoch
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1.
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岁那年，因为与被聘来经营这家初创公司的更有经验的高管发生了权力斗争，他离开了苹果。
zài tā sān shí suì nà nián , yīn wèi yǔ bèi pìn lái jīng yíng zhè jiā chū chuàng gōng sī de gèng yǒu jīng yàn de gāo guǎn fā shēng le quán lì dòu zhēng , tā lí kāi le píng guǒ 。
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2.
At the age of 21, he started the rough journey of travelling around China in a wheelchair with a map and a compass.
岁的时候，这个年轻人竟怀揣一幅地图，手持一个指南针，摇着轮椅踏上了走遍全中国的艰难路途。
suì de shí hou , zhè ge nián qīng rén jìng huái chuāi yī fú dì tú , shǒu chí yī gè zhǐ nán zhēn , yáo zhe lún yǐ tà shàng le zǒu biàn quán zhōng guó de jiān nán lù tú 。
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3.
Her mother and she are planning to open an online shopping store and the clients would be children of her age.
她还和妈妈筹划开一家网上购物商店，顾客是自己的同龄人。
tā hái hé mā mā chóu huà kāi yì jiā wǎng shàng gòu wù shāng diàn , gù kè shì zì jǐ de tóng líng rén 。
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4.
A woman never acknowledges such a nondescript age as forty-eight unless she is going to marry a widower with seventeen children.
一个女人决不会承认象四十八岁这样一个难以归类的年龄，除非她准备带着十七个孩子嫁给一个鳏夫。
yī gè nǚ rén jué bú huì chéng rèn xiàng sì shí bā suì zhè yàng yī gè nán yǐ guī lèi de nián líng , chú fēi tā zhǔn bèi dài zhe shí qī gè hái zi jià gěi yī gè guān fū 。
5.
Haggis decided at an early age to be a writer, and he made his own comic books.
哈吉斯很小就决定当一个作家，他创作了自己的滑稽故事书。
hā jí sī hěn xiǎo jiù jué dìng dāng yī gè zuò jiā , tā chuàng zuò le zì jǐ de huá jī gù shi shū 。
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6.
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
安妮希望自己已经跨过了羞怯的年龄，但她肯定没有跨过容易冲动的年龄。
ān nī xī wàng zì jǐ yǐ jīng kuà guò le xiū qiè de nián líng , dàn tā kěn dìng méi yǒu kuà guò róng yì chōng dòng de nián líng 。
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7.
Carlisle wasn't considering age too intently, as each of these decisions was spur-of-the-moment as well as life-or-death.
对于年龄卡莱尔并没有太多的考量，每一个都是在生死关头争分夺秒所作出的决定。
duì yú nián líng kǎ lái ěr bìng méi yǒu tài duō de kǎo liàng , měi yī gè dōu shì zài shēng sǐ guān tóu zhēng fēn duó miǎo suǒ zuò chū de jué dìng 。
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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.
塔拉巴尼还说，他对74岁的阿齐兹产生的同情一方面出于阿齐兹的年龄，另一方面也因为他是一名伊拉克的基督徒。
tǎ lā bā ní hái shuō , tā duì qī shí sì suì de ā qí zī chǎn shēng de tóng qíng yì fāng miàn chū yú ā qí zī de nián líng , lìng yì fāng miàn yě yīn wèi tā shì yī míng yī lā kè de jī dū tú 。
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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.
对指望靠健康的习惯就能活到百岁的人来说，一项对百岁老人的最新研究结果也许是一个小小的打击。
duì zhǐ wàng kào jiàn kāng de xí guàn jiù néng huó dào bǎi suì de rén lái shuō , yī xiàng duì bǎi suì lǎo rén de zuì xīn yán jiū jié guǒ yě xǔ shì yī gè xiǎo xiǎo de dǎ jī 。
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The Gilded Age was one of extreme profligacy, both in business investment and sumptuous expenditure.
不管是商业投资、还是豪华消费，镀金时代（GildedAge）都算得上极度挥霍的时期之一。
bù guǎn shì shāng yè tóu zī 、 hái shì háo huá xiāo fèi , dù jīn shí dài ( GildedAge ) dōu suàn de shàng jí dù huī huò de shí qī zhī yī 。
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