| 词组 | age |
| 释义 | 1．下面各句意思相同： I am twenty years of age. I am aged twenty. I am aged twenty years. My age is twenty. My age is twenty years. 另外也可说 I am twenty years old 和 I am twenty，但不可说 I am twenty of age, I am twenty years of my age, My age is twenty years old，或 I am aged twenty years old。 （I am aged twenty years 有时可能作“我［在容貌上或精神上好似］老了二十年”解。） 2．age 前面可以用 at，in 或 of，但意思不同： He died at the age of ninety. He died in his old age. He died in an age of general unrest. He is of my age. 第一句里的 age 指“年龄”，前面用 at。第二句里的 age 指“人生的一段时间”，前面用 in。第三句里的 age 指“时代”，前面用 in。第四句里的 of my age（跟我同年的）是形容词短语，前面用 of。 3．at the age of...里用 the，不可用 an。 4．advanced age 是“高龄”，old age 是“老年时期”，所以可以说 He died at an advanced age 和 He died in his old age，但不可说 He died at an old age 和 He died in his advanced age。但虽然不说 at an old age，却可以说 at an extremely old age 和 at a good old age。 5．when I was of your age, a boy of about my age, a man of twice my age, of what age he is 等表达方式里的 of 往往省去。I don't know what age he is 和 What age do you think he is? 不及 I don't know how old he is 和 How old do you think he is? 普通。What age are you? 不合习惯，该改作 How old are you? 6．old age 是“老年”，middle age 是“中年”（从四十岁左右到六十岁左右）。old age 和 middle age 前面没有 the。说“少年”通常用 youth，不说 young age。单用 age 指 old age 现在很少见。 7．不可说 My age is young 或 His age is old，该说 I am young 和 He is old。 8．middle age 是“中年”，the Middle Ages（有时写作the middle ages）是“中世纪”（没有一定的年限）。两种表达方式不可混用。相当于 middle age 的形容词是 middle-aged，相当于 the Middle Ages 的形容词是 medi(a)eval。 9．old age 不可用作“古代”解。“古代”该说 ancient times。 10．of an age 是“同年龄的”，如 He and I are of an age, 但 You are of an age to understand such things 是“你到了了解这种事的年龄了”，of the age 是“当代的”，of age 是“成年的”。 11．假定你从生下来到现在，共有十八年零几个月，那末可说 eighteen，但实际已到了第十九年，所以也可说 in my nineteenth year，而且离十九岁不远了，所以也可说 coming nineteen, going nineteen 或 rising nineteen。 12．for ages 和 for an age 都作“经过很长时间”解。例如： He kept me waiting for ages. （他使我等待了好久。） He kept me waiting for an age. |
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