ages的中文翻译是什么意思

N-VAR年龄

Your age is the number of years that you have lived.

• She has a nephew who is just ten years of age...

  她有一个才10岁的侄子。

• At the age of sixteen he qualified for a place at the University of Hamburg...

  16岁时，他就有资格进入汉堡大学。

N-VAR寿命

The age of a thing is the number of years since it was made.

• Everything in the room looks in keeping with the age of the building.

  房间里的一切看起来都与这栋建筑物的存在年头很相称。

N-UNCOUNT老年；变老

Age is the state of being old or the process of becoming older.

• Perhaps he has grown wiser with age...

  可能随着年纪增长，他变聪明了。

• The fabric was showing signs of age...

  这块衣料可以看出岁月留下的痕迹。

V-ERG（使）变老；（使）显老

When someone ages, or when something ages them, they seem much older and less strong or less alert.

• He had always looked so young, but he seemed to have aged in the last few months...

  他原来一直看起来很年轻，但最近几个月他显得老了。

• He was only in his mid-thirties, but already worry had aged him.

  他虽然只有三十五六岁，但忧虑让他很显老。

V-ERG（使）变陈；（使）成熟

When food or alcohol is aged or when it ages, it is left to get older before being eaten or drunk, so that it develops a better flavour.

• Balsamic vinegar is aged in wood for at least 10 years and the flavour is wonderful...

  意大利香醋在木桶中就经历了至少10年的酝酿期，所以口味极佳。

• Whisky loses strength as it ages.

  存放时间越久，威士忌的口味越淡。

N-COUNT（一）代；时代；时期

An age is a period in history.

• ...the age of steam and steel.

  蒸汽和钢铁时代

• ...items of Bronze Age pottery.

  青铜器时代的陶器

N-COUNT很长的时间

You can say an age or ages to mean a very long time.

• He waited what seemed an age...

  他等了似乎很长时间。

• The bus took absolutely ages to arrive.

  公共汽车过了很长时间才来。

PHRASE举止和年龄相称

If someone tells you to act your age, they are telling you to behave in a way that is suitable for someone your age, because they think you are behaving in a childish way.

PHRASE成熟；发达

If something comes of age, it reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people.

• Recycling is an issue that has come of age in Britain in the last decade.

  回收利用是上个十年中被英国民众广泛认可的观念。

PHRASE成年;达到法定年龄

When someone comes of age, they become legally an adult.

• The company was to be held in trust for Eddie until he came of age.

  在埃迪达到法定年龄之前，该公司将委托他人代为经营。

PHRASE未到合法年龄的;未成年的

Someone who is under age is not legally old enough to do something, for example to buy an alcoholic drink.

• Because she was under age, her parents were still responsible for her.

  因为她还未成年，她的父母仍然应为她负责。

• ...under age smoking.

  未成年吸烟