age

英[eɪdʒ]美[ eɪdʒ]

n.年龄（段），寿命，时代，陈年，破旧，期；

v.（使）变老，显老，（使）变陈，成熟；

复数：ages;

第三人称单数：ages;

过去式：aged;

过去分词：aged;

现在分词：aging; ageing;

例句

He became a doctor at the age of 27.他27岁时成了一名医生。

We were sent to boarding school at a tender age.很小的时候我们就被送到了寄宿学校。

He read grown-up books at an early age.他小小年纪就看大人看的书。

Susie is very grown-up for her age.相对她的年龄来说苏西非常成熟。

He is ahead of the age.他站在时代的前列。

The curriculum is rigidly prescribed from an early age.自儿童时起即已开始有严格的课程设置。

Providing that you exercise due care,there is no reason why you shouldn’t live to a great age.只要你适当地注意,你就可享有很高的寿命。

He is laying aside money for his old age.他正在积蓄金钱以度晚年。

He was just about my age.他和我年龄差不多。

The command went forth that all men of a certain age should be killed.命令发出了, 所有到一定年龄的男人都得杀死。

英语六级真题

Middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives, said Loh.

You will face problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

Still, there are good reasons to make positive changes in how we live and what we eat as we age.

From a very early age, some children exhibit better self-control than others.

Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.

The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.

99 Occupational stress increases the risk of heart attack and diabetes, accelerates the aging process, decreases longevity, and contributes to depression and anxiety, among numerous other negative health outcomes.

The leading causes of death in this age group are also changing.

In thousands of ways, social workers help other people—people from every age, every background across the country.

In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.

But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.

And in 2010, the researchers reported that children aged 12 to 17 saw more athlete-endorsed food and beverage brand commercials than adults.

"middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives," said Loh.

"Once we scale up, algorithms must be sensitive to tiny changes in identities and at the same time invariant to lighting, pose, age," Kemelmacher-Shlizerman said.

All 67 participants were over 60 years of age, and both groups lost about the same amount of weight.

At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.

Benjamin Franklin produced some of his best writings at the age of 84, and Pablo Picasso put brush to canvas right through his eighties.

But telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age, that's a powerful message.

Evolutionarily speaking, people in this age group are at a stage in which they can prepare to find a mate and start their own family while separating from parents and striking out on their own.

In a 2005 study, psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his co-author, psychologist Margo Gardner, then at Temple, divided 6 people into three age groups: young adolescents, with a mean age of 14; older adolescents, with a mean age of 19

In this globalised age, there is a good case for international travel.

Psychologists have documented children lying as early as the age of two.

The average age of farmers hovers around 58 years old, but he is just 26.

The children who had the lowest self-control when they were age three to ten, later on had the most health problems in their thirties, and they had the worst financial situation.

The Mediterranean groups had lower mortality rates in all age brackets and from all causes, particularly from heart disease.

The misconception of resilience is often bred from an early age, parents trying to teach their children resilience might celebrate a high school student staying up until 3am to finish a science fair project.

The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.

This is a grand challenge for our age and it may require an "irrational" response.

This is the story of wildlife conservation in the age of mass extinction.

This suggests that babies of that age can tell the difference between a happy melody and a sad tune.

Though he didn't come from a farming family, from a young age tim Joseph was fascinated by the idea of living off the land.

You probably remember that human infants are less developed physically than other mammals of the same age.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-VAR

年龄

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

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N-VAR

寿命

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

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N-UNCOUNT

老年；变老

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

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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.

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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.

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N-COUNT

（一）代；时代；时期

An age is a period in history.

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N-COUNT

很长的时间

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

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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.

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PHRASE

成年;达到法定年龄

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

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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.

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英汉词典释义

n.

年龄, 年纪

老年, 老

时代, 时期

年龄段

【心理学】(在智力等方面)达到的水平，智龄

法定年龄；成年

寿(命)；存活期；一生，毕生，终身

vt. & vi.

(使)长大, 变老

使显老；使变老；使苍老

vi.

【化学】老化；陈化，熟化

(吸*者随年龄增长而主动)戒*，戒除*品

vt.

【化学】使老化；使陈化；使熟化

估计，推测(马的年龄)

英英词典释义

Noun

1. how long something has existed;

2. an era of history having some distinctive feature;

3. a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises;

4. a late time of life;

5. a prolonged period of time;

Verb

1. begin to seem older; get older;

2. grow old or older;

3. make older;

行业词典

医学： 年龄，时期：以单位时间计的个体生活时间；智龄：衡量某种个体特性，以一般正常人显示同等熟练程度的时序(实足)年龄回报，如智力成就年龄；老化，老衰：时间流逝带来的改变；

土木工程： 时效硬化；age-hardening；

地质学： 期；

水产： 年龄体长换算表；length key 根据各体长组的年龄组成绘制的表格。；

物理学： 时效沉积；age-deposition；

电力： 时效硬化；age hardening；