age
美 [eɪdʒ] 
英 [eɪdʒ]
- n.年龄；年龄段；时期；老年
- v.变老；使显老；使变老；使苍老
- 网络时代；年纪；寿命
词形变化
复数：ages 现在分词：aging 过去式：aged 同义词
英汉双解
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. | [u][c] 年龄段a particular period of a person's life |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| As he aged, his memory got worse. 他随着年事增高，记忆力就变差了。 |
| The population is aging(= more people are living longer) . 人口正在老龄化。 |
2. | [t] 使显老；使变老；使苍老to make sb/sth look, feel or seem older |
| The shock has aged her. 这次打击让她显得苍老了。 |
| Exposure to the sun ages the skin. 太阳暴晒会使皮肤粗老。 |
3. | [i][t] （使）成熟，变陈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. 这种奶酪至少要搁一年才成熟。 |
| The wine is aged in oak casks. 这种酒是用栎木酒桶放陈的。 |
习惯用语
be/act your age
行为和年龄相称；举止不再有孩子气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；达到法定年龄when a personcomes of age , they reach the age when they have an adult's legal rights and responsibilities
成熟；发达if sthcomes of age , it reaches the stage of development at which people accept and value it
look your age
容貌与年龄相当to seem as old as you really are and not younger or older
under age
未到法定年龄not legally old enough to do a particular thing
| It is illegal to sell cigarettes to children who are under age. 售香烟给未到法定年龄的孩子是非法的。 |
英汉解释
n. | 6. 〈口〉很长的时间 a man in his green old age 童颜老者 |
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英英解释
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
They carried out a series of research projects called Person Perception to see how people estimate the age of others.
研究人员进行了一系列“年龄直觉”的研究项目，观察人们如何判断其他人的年龄。
There was also evidence linking a legal drinking age of 18 to a higher rate of unplanned pregnancies among young women.
人们已经证实低龄妇女的意外怀孕率升高与规定法定饮酒年龄为18岁有关。
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.
巴尔加斯希望，借此能推动立法，批准像他这样自幼来到美国的外来移民能够成为公民。
All that, and the rise of the son, makes a repeat White House run by the father morelikely, no matter his age.
所有这些，加上小保罗的冉冉升起，让其父大保罗再度角逐白宫变得更为可能。
When my daughter reached the age of six, my wife and I decided to give her a small amount of pocket money.
我的女儿年满6岁时，我妻子和我决定给她一些零花钱。
She appeared to be in her 30s ( "Why don't you guess my age, " said the rail-thin sex worker, when asked).
她看上去三十来岁。（当问到年纪的时候，这位骨瘦如柴的性工作者说：“你干吗不猜猜我的年纪？”）
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，在百货公司的食品区，一个年纪和我差不多大的姑娘跑过来，还着眼泪拥抱了我。
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.
至于他如今怎么看见了，我们却不知道，是谁开了他的眼睛，我们也不知道；你们问他吧，他已经成人，会替自己说话了。
Currently, in the United States, the general advice is for colonoscopy tests for colon cancer to begin at the age of 50.
目前，在美国一般在50岁开始就普遍建议做结肠癌检查。
"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，”她母亲说，她的穿着也可以帮助人们研究漂亮的服装能怎样美化上了年纪的人。“把领带夹别牢--快脱出来了。”
"But by age 10, those memories seem to get crystallized, " she said.
“但是到10岁的时候，他们的早期记忆似乎被冻结了，”她说道。
She was beginning to feel her age .
她开始感到自己上年纪了。
Repose and security in her age, had set their stamp on her lined and serene face.
晚年的悠闲和保障都在她那布满皱纹、安详的脸上打下了烙印。
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.
书里面有各个城市的人口数，判断女人年龄的方法和骆驼的牙齿数目。
At the age of fifteen, for a wager, he was disguised as a girl.
15岁时，作为赌注，他被打扮成个女孩。
She was received into the Christian church at the age of sixteen.
她十六岁时加入了基督教。
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.
他们一个十七，一个十六，个子比一般十六、七岁的人要高，在他们的小表妹的眼里，都俨然是大人了。
The best suggestion is that Jupiter is still contracting gravitationally despite its age of several billion years.
最好的说明是：木星尽管已有几十亿年的历史，但由于引力作用，它仍在收缩。
He was some fifty years of age, and his popularity was at its height.
他年纪五十上下，声望也达到了顶点。
This method is used for infants less than one year of age when ultrasound equipment is not available.
在没有超声波仪器时，用本法测量未满周岁婴儿的血压。
By the age of 21 he controlled the company.
他21岁就掌管了公司。
She was a woman who, one felt, had never been handsome, but now, in middle age, was of distinctly prepossessing appearance.
她是这样的一个女人：人们觉得，她以前并不漂亮，而现在，人到中年，却显然有了一种令人喜悦的外貌。
He was forty-five years of age, of medium height, fairly thick-set, not at all unprepossessing.
他已经45岁，中等身材，矮矮胖胖的，不完全是胸无城府的。
Would not his love, his tender care, and the advantages he could bestow upon her make her forget the question of age?
他的爱，他的一份真情，他可以给她的一切好处，难道不能使她忘掉年龄的问题吗？
Tests at the age of seven provide a benchmark against which the child's progress at school can be measured.
七岁时进行的测试为孩子在学校中的学习发展提供了一个测量基准。
The poor young fellow, who was still just a boy, still at the age when feelings express themselves spontaneously, burst into tears.
可怜的青年这时还是一个孩子，还在极易流露感情的年纪，他眼泪涌了出来。
Lydia was a favourite with her mother, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.
丽迪雅是她母亲的掌上明珠，由于娇纵过度她很小就进入了社交界。
Gretchen was beautiful, her mother said, just as she had been when she was Gretchen's age.
格丽卿很美丽，她母亲说，就象她自己在格丽卿的年龄时一样。
She made no concession to his age; she expected him to work as hard as she did.
她丝毫也不体谅他的年龄，要求他干得像她一样卖力。
At the age of 21, Sam returned to the river to realize an old ambition, that of being a Mississippi River steamboat pilot.
为了实现他的夙愿，二十一岁时，塞姆重返密西西比河，当了轮船舵手。
He is one of the leading minds of our age and deserves to be better known to the general public of all nations.
他是我们时代的卓越科学家之一，理所当然为世界各国公众所推崇。
She was a woman of twenty-eight, I should think, though of a type whose age is always doubtful.
我想，她二十八岁，但是她是那种永远让人摸不清究竟多大岁数的女人。
China was the first foreign country he visited, at age 23, and he worked his way over as a sailor.
中国是他出游的第一个外国，当时他二十三岁，以充当水手的方式实现了那次旅行。
For a woman of her age, she was attractive.
在她那个年龄的妇女中，她算是楚楚动人的了。
At the age of fifteen she gave up taking piano lessons to concentrate on her school work.
她十五岁时，不再学习钢琴，而是开始专心于上学。
Until adversity and tragedy befell him in middle age, William Holden Bell had lived a reasonably successful and happy life.
威廉·霍尔顿·贝尔在生活和事业上一直相当心满意足，不料到了中年，却时去运衰，屡遭不幸。
She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth.
她正十八岁，清秀，腼腆，满怀着年轻无知的幻想。
His age and a veneer of dignity made of this too recent incidents a pretty squalid minor mistake.
那么以他的年纪和风度而言，他足可以使眼前的小事化为微不足道的细枝末节。
The children average seven years of age.
这些孩子平均年龄为7岁。
He congratulated him on entering the bonds of matrimony at an age when many young men thought only of their pleasures.
他祝贺新郎年纪轻轻就承担起婚姻的责任，而许多年轻男人在这样的年纪还只考虑如何寻欢作乐。
The cheese is left to age for at least a year.
这种奶酪至少要搁一年才成熟。
He said the coffin dates back to the 21st Dynasty, right after the end of the New Kingdom and the golden age of Egypt.
他说这副棺材可以追溯到第二十一朝，刚好就在新王国及埃及黄金时代终结之后。
Deformation, division, fuzzy, "abstract" image is in this day and age of human psychological state of specific visual symbol.
变形、分裂、模糊、“抽象”的形象正是处于这个时代的人类心理状态的具体可视的象征。
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.
我六岁那年，有一次在吃一个大苹果时，有个东西压在了我的舌头上，吐出来，原来是颗牙齿。
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.
只要我把手放进你的内裤里，玩你的蛋蛋十分钟，我就会知道你的准确年龄。
The number is not a surprise at all, considering that the age of college students is usually between 18 and 24.
因为大学生的年龄大都在18至24岁之间，所以这一数字并不令人吃惊。
Ah, but we live in aninternet age now, in which news is supposed to break at least a week before the event itself happens.
然而我们现在生活在一个互联网的时代，一个新闻在事件本身发生至少一周之前就应该发布的时代。
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岁的生命的尽头，她还在孜孜不倦地写一本关于狗和蟑螂的书。
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.
但是同时他也指出日本农民的平均年龄在七十岁。他表示日本总有一天将别无选择地接受更多的进口产品。
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，随着时间的推移，这个故事要渐渐涉及到更多适应孩子年龄和成熟程度的明确信息。
Many Americans still believe that if you work hard and save, by the age of 50 you could be a millionaire.
许多美国人仍然相信，如果努力工作并攒钱，那么到50岁时就有可能成为百万富翁。
"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.
我们完全承认，停止一岁龄婴幼儿的奶瓶喂养是不容易的，停两岁的则会更难。
Candida Royalle was in the business during the golden age of porn and decided to make erotic films from a female perspective.
CandidaRoyalle在色情演员的黄金年龄就开始行动了，她决定从女性的欣赏角度拍色情电影。
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?
如果我从快四十岁开始为退休存钱和我从二十岁就开始存钱，哪个会更难呢？
Sharon Lear learned to downhill ski, a sport which had previously terrified her, in Colorado at the age of 38.
科罗拉多州的雪伦‧李尔在她三十八岁时学会了先前令她恐惧的下坡滑雪。
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.
加蓬第一任总统莱昂·姆巴去世后，年仅31岁的奥马尔·邦戈接管权力，成为非洲最年轻的首脑之一。
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赘，“老化”的阶段也不会变得容易。
Jesper Koll, economist at Merrill Lynch, said: "The golden age of pro-market reform is over. "
美林（MerrillLynch）经济学家叶斯珀•科尔（JesperKoll）表示：“亲市场改革的黄金时代已经结束。”
The son of Ronald Reagan was a self-declared atheist at age 12 and went down a very different path from his parents.
罗纳德·里根的儿子罗恩12岁的时候，就宣称自己是无神论者，与父母走了一条完全不同的道路。
A father-in-law must be a man of some group of age, and with some social relations due to his daughter's marriage.
岳父是一个一定年龄段的男人，再加上由他的女儿的婚姻而来的一些社会关系。
Ratzinger should have been more alarmed by the young age of the priest's victims; that's what maternal care would have entailed.
拉辛格更应该担忧的应该是年纪更轻的受害者们，他们更需要母性关怀。
They turned to Europe and the past for comfort, and failed to understand their own age or their own country.
他们都只向欧洲和往事中去寻求慰藉；对于他们的时代和国家则一无所知。
We thought one reason Eleanor was so health-conscious was that both her parents had died at an early age.
我们以为埃利诺之所以对健康问题如此敏感，原因之一是她的父母过早地离开了人间。
Above all there was Mr. Churchill offering a splendid example at the age of 76.
特别是，七十六岁高龄的邱吉尔先生为大家树立了光辉的榜样。
Straight, strong and hard, there was nothing in his appearance that spoke positively either of youth or of age.
他挺拔、健壮，从他外表的任何一处，都很难判断他年轻或年老。
My son will not assort with people of his own age.
我儿子决不和他的同龄人交往。
The boy has reached an adult age and ought to be earning his own living.
这孩子已经（到了）成年，应该自食其力了。
At the ripe old age of seven, I had fallen in love with the Melinda Cox Library.
在我满七周岁时，我就深深地爱上了麦林达·考克斯图书馆。
Life often seems to be marked off into different periods: childhood, schooldays, marriage, old age, for example.
人的一生似乎常划分为几个不同时期，例如童年、学生时代、结婚、老年。
Apart from giving us Sellers, The Gilded Age is a confused book: its villains and its heroes are too easily interchangeable.
除开给了我们《塞勒斯》以外，《镀金时代》是一本混乱的小说，恶棍和英雄都勾画得不够清楚。
By the age of 25 she was completely burned out and retired from the sport.
她到25岁时就已体力耗尽，退出了体坛。
