age

n.年龄；时代；时期；长时间

v.（使）变老；（使）陈化

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。

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。

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 died in his old age.（age指“人生的某段时间”）He died in an age of general unrest.（age指“年代”）

下列各句均表示相同意思： I am twenty years of age.I am aged twenty.My age is twenty.

注意下面的表达方式均不正确： I am twenty of age.My age is twenty years old.I am aged twenty years old.

at the age of ...结构中用the，不用an；

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；

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.

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。

当复数物主代词修饰“年龄”时,可用ages,也可用age。后者着眼于个体。例如:

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“他18岁。”的说法:可说He is eighteen.He is eighteen years.He is eighteen years old.He is eighteen years of age.He is aged eighteen.His age is eighteen.不宜说He is eighteen of age.He is of eighteen years old.He is at the age of eighteen.His age is eighteen years old.近年来美国报刊上常有用“age+数词”表示年龄。例如:John Smith, age 17, was arrested for drug-pushing.约翰·史密斯,17岁,因贩毒而被捕。

一般问“你多大年纪?”是How old are you?但也可说What is your age?只是后者是相当正式的语体。

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”。