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age

/eyj/US // eɪdʒ //UK // (eɪdʒ) //

年龄,年龄段,年龄大小,年龄大小的问题

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
    • : a period of human life, measured by years from birth, usually marked by a certain stage or degree of mental or physical development and involving legal responsibility and capacity: the age of discretion; the age of consent; The state raised the drinking age from 18 to 21 years.
    • : the particular period of life at which a person becomes naturally or conventionally qualified or disqualified for anything: He was over age for military duty.
    • : one of the periods or stages of human life: a person of middle age.
    • : advanced years; old age: His eyes were dim with age.
    • : a particular period of history, as distinguished from others; a historical epoch: the age of Pericles; the Stone Age; the age of electronic communications.
    • : the period of history contemporary with the span of an individual's life: He was the most famous architect of the age.
    • : a generation or a series of generations: ages yet unborn.
    • : a great length of time: I haven't seen you for an age. He's been gone for ages.
    • : the average life expectancy of an individual or of the individuals of a class or species: The age of a horse is from 25 to 30 years.
    • : Psychology. the level of mental, emotional, or educational development of a person, especially a child, as determined by various tests and based on a comparison of the individual's score with the average score for persons of the same chronological age.
    • : Geology. a period of the history of the earth distinguished by some special feature: the Ice Age.a unit of geological time, shorter than an epoch, during which the rocks comprising a stage were formed.
    • : any of the successive periods in human history divided, according to Hesiod, into the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages.
    • : Cards. Poker.the first player at the dealer's left.Compare edge. eldest hand.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    aged, ag·ing or age·ing.

    • : to grow old: He is aging rapidly.
    • : to mature, as wine, cheese, or wood: a heavy port that ages slowly.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    aged, ag·ing or age·ing.

    • : to make old; cause to grow or seem old: Fear aged him overnight.
    • : to bring to maturity or a state fit for use: to age wine.
    • : to store so that its electrical or magnetic characteristics become constant.
    • : to expose to steam or humid air in order to fix the dye.
    • : to stabilize the electrical properties of by passing current through it.

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Examples

  • Also included are the age of each home and its condition and quality.

  • Young age, racial and ethnic disparities, poor education, poor preparation for pregnancy and a history of trauma are a few factors that can exacerbate the effects of stress.

  • Many people of color are mentally conditioned at a young age to navigate society in specific ways to stay safe.

  • A version of this article appears in the October 2020 issue of Fortune with the headline “An IPO coup for the trade war age.”

  • Hildebrand took his first job in the oil business at age 20.

  • However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.

  • In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.

  • Doctors have long wrestled with the age of consent when it comes to mature adolescents.

  • You have to acknowledge your age and position in life, for me quite a lot of those emotionally fueled songs were hormone songs.

  • The copilot on Flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.

  • Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.

  • The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.

  • In a warlike age this peacefulness of a monarch was the great and supernatural phenomenon.

  • He began his military career at the age of 11, and continued in the service nearly 60 years.

  • His hair was darker—almost brown save at the temples, where age had faded it to an ashen colour.