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英語“年齡”表示法

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1?表示“整歲”,直接用基數詞或yearage,例如“他20歲”可表示為:

  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“在某人幾十多歲”,用“in ones +基數詞複數形式”,例如:

  他七十多歲。He is in his seventies.(從70歲到79歲之間)

  她五十多歲。She is in her fifties.(從50歲到59歲之間)

  還可以借助earlymiddlelate來表達得更明確一些,例如:

  那女孩今年二十二、三歲。The girl is in her early twenties

  他今年十四、五歲。He is in his middle teens

  她今年二十八、九歲。She is in her late twenties

  3?表示“快滿多少歲”用進行時或將來時,例如“他快滿十八歲了”可說成:

  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“不滿多少歲”,用副詞barelynearlyal-mostquiteyetjust等,例如“她不滿十七歲”有以下幾種說法:

  She is barely nearly almost seventeen

  She is not quite yet seventeen

  She is just under seventeen

  5?表示“差多久滿多少歲”用介詞off,例如:

  他差5個月就滿19歲了。He is five months off nineteen

  她再過3年就50歲了。She is three years off fifty

  6?表示“超過多少歲”用介詞past,例如:

  他已年過50He is past fifty

  他是一個過了中年的人。He is a man past middle age

  那孩子兩歲零兩個月。The baby is two months past two years old

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