交际必备:如何表达年龄?
英语课
1.表示“整岁”,直接用基数词或year,age,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 1 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 one's +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early,middle,late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 will be eighteen years old.It will be his eighteenth birthday.
4. 表示“不满多少岁”,用副词barely 2,nearly,al- most,quite,yet,just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50。He 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.
adj.年老的,陈年的
- He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
- He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
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