词形变化: ager aged aged aging ages

  • 正在加载“age”的释义
例句用法 短语词组 近反义词 海词讲解 英英解释

1.

What is your age?

你多大年纪?

2.

I haven't seen you for ages.

我好久没见到你了。

3.

The period in which man learnt to make tools of iron is called the Iron Age.

人类学会用铁制造工具的时代称为铁器时代。

4.

Anxiety ages us.

忧虑催人老。

【近义词】

【反义词】

【词源解说】

大约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。

【词义辨析】

age epoch era period times
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
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。

【词语用法】

  1. 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”)
      He is of my age.(age指“同年”)
  2. 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.
      My age is twenty years.
      I am twenty years old.
      I am twenty.
  3. 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.
      以上有时指“我面容上老了二十年”的意思。
  4. at the age of ...结构中用the,不用an;
  5. advanced age指“高龄”,old age指“老年”。
    • 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.)
    表达方式at an extremely old age和at a good old age是正确的;
  6. 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;
  7. 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
  8. 不能说My age is young,而是说I am young;
  9. 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;
  10. of an age指“同年龄的”,of the age指“当代的”,of age指“成年的”;
  11. 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;
  12. 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.
名词 age:

1.

how long something has existed

2.

an era of history having some distinctive feature

同义词:historic period

3.

a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises

同义词:eld

4.

a prolonged period of time

同义词:long time,years

5.

a late time of life

同义词:old age,years,eld,geezerhood

动词 age:

1.

begin to seem older; get older

2.

grow old or older

同义词:senesce,get on,mature,maturate

3.

make older

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