| 词组 | elderly |
| 释义 | aged • elderly - Who will look after us when we're elderly? (Not *aged*) (= in or near old age) - I was approached by an elderly man who asked me for directions. (Not *an elderly*) (we cannot use elderly on its own to mean 'an elderly person'; an elderly man is preferable to an aged man, which is literary, and is more complimentary than an old man) - Monica devotes a lot of her spare time to helping the aged/the elderly. (Not *the ageds* *the elderlies*) (the + adjective for the group as a whole) - Constance looks after her aged parents. (= very old; aged can be used in front of a few nouns: e.g. my aged parents, an aged aunt, an aged friend of mine, etc.) |
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