酷兔英语

英语"年龄"表示法



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 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 willbe eighteen years old.



It willbe his eighteenth birthday.



4?表示"不满多少岁",用副词barely,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.
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