英语“年龄”表示法

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1?表示“整岁”,直接用基数词或yearage,例如“他20岁”可表示为:

  He is twenty

  He is twenty years old

  He is a twenty-year-old man

  He is aged twenty

  He is at age twenty

  He is at the age of twenty

  He is twenty years of age

  2?表示“在某人几十多岁”,用“in ones +基数词复数形式”,例如:

  他七十多岁。He is in his seventies.(从70岁到79岁之间)

  她五十多岁。She is in her fifties.(从50岁到59岁之间)

  还可以借助earlymiddlelate来表达得更明确一些,例如:

  那女孩今年二十二、三岁。The girl is in her early twenties

  他今年十四、五岁。He is in his middle teens

  她今年二十八、九岁。She is in her late twenties

  3?表示“快满多少岁”用进行时或将来时,例如“他快满十八岁了”可说成:

  He is getting on for eighteen

  He is going on eighteen years old

  He willbe eighteen years old

  It willbe his eighteenth birthday

  4?表示“不满多少岁”,用副词barelynearlyal-mostquiteyetjust等,例如“她不满十七岁”有以下几种说法:

  She is barely nearly almost seventeen

  She is not quite yet seventeen

  She is just under seventeen

  5?表示“差多久满多少岁”用介词off,例如:

  他差5个月就满19岁了。He is five months off nineteen

  她再过3年就50岁了。She is three years off fifty

  6?表示“超过多少岁”用介词past,例如:

  他已年过50He is past fifty

  他是一个过了中年的人。He is a man past middle age

  那孩子两岁零两个月。The baby is two months past two years old

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