1.表示“整歲”,直接用基數(shù)詞或year,,age,,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 one's +基數(shù)詞復(fù)數(shù)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early,,middle,,late來表達(dá)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(jìn)行時(shí)或?qū)頃r(shí),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 will be eighteen years old. It will be his eighteenth birthday. 4.表示“不滿多少歲”,,用副詞barely,,nearly,al- most,,quite,,yet,just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(gè)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50。He is past fifty. 他是一個(gè)過了中年的人,。He is a man past middle age. 那孩子兩歲零兩個(gè)月,。The baby is two months past two years old. |
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