英语“年龄”表示法

考研 Freekaoyan.com/2008-04-06

1表示“整岁”,直接用基数词或year,age,例如“他20岁”可表示为:

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“在某人几十多岁”,用“in one's +基数词复数形式”,例如:

他七十多岁。He is in his seventies.(从70岁到79岁之间)

她五十多岁。She is in her fifties.(从50岁到59岁之间)

还可以借助early,middle,late来表达得更明确一些,例如:

那女孩今年二十二、三岁。The girl is in her early twenties.

他今年十四、五岁。He is in his middle teens.

她今年二十八、九岁。She is in her late twenties.

3表示“快满多少岁”用进行时或将来时,例如“他快满十八岁了”可说成:

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“不满多少岁”,用副词barely,nearly,al- most,quite,yet,just等,例如“她不满十七岁”有以下几种说法:

She is barely /nearly /almost seventeen.

She is not quite /yet seventeen.

She is just under seventeen.

5表示“差多久满多少岁”用介词off,例如:

他差5个月就满19岁了。He is five months off nineteen.

她再过3年就50岁了。She is three years off fifty.

6表示“超过多少岁”用介词past,例如:

他已年过50。He is past fifty.

他是一个过了中年的人。He is a man past middle age.

那孩子两岁零两个月。The baby is two months past two years old.
 


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