ages的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-VAR年齡

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

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

  她有一個才10歲的侄子。

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

  16歲時，他就有資格進入漢堡大學。

N-VAR壽命

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.

  房間裡的一切看起來都與這棟建築物的存在年頭很相稱。

N-UNCOUNT老年；變老

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

• Perhaps he has grown wiser with age...

  可能隨著年紀增長，他變聰明瞭。

• The fabric was showing signs of age...

  這塊衣料可以看出歲月留下的痕跡。

V-ERG（使）變老；（使）顯老

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...

  他原來一直看起來很年輕，但最近幾個月他顯得老了。

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

  他雖然只有三十五六歲，但憂慮讓他很顯老。

V-ERG（使）變陳；（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...

  義大利香醋在木桶中就經歷了至少10年的醞釀期，所以口味極佳。

• Whisky loses strength as it ages.

  存放時間越久，威士忌的口味越淡。

N-COUNT（一）代；時代；時期

An age is a period in history.

• ...the age of steam and steel.

  蒸汽和鋼鐵時代

• ...items of Bronze Age pottery.

  青銅器時代的陶器

N-COUNT很長的時間

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

• He waited what seemed an age...

  他等了似乎很長時間。

• The bus took absolutely ages to arrive.

  公共汽車過了很長時間才來。

PHRASE舉止和年齡相稱

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；發達

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.

  回收利用是上個十年中被英國民眾廣泛認可的觀念。

PHRASE成年;達到法定年齡

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.

  在埃迪達到法定年齡之前，該公司將委託他人代為經營。

PHRASE未到合法年齡的;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.

  因為她還未成年，她的父母仍然應為她負責。

• ...under age smoking.

  未成年吸菸