past one's prime 的定义
- Beyond the peak of one's powers, as in Jean still plays tennis but at 79 she's obviously past her prime. Also see the synonym over the hill; prime of life.
past one's prime 近义词
等同于 old
past one's prime 的近义词 36 个
- aged
- ancient
- decrepit
- elderly
- gray
- mature
- tired
- venerable
- fossil
- senior
- versed
- veteran
- along in years
- broken down
- debilitated
- enfeebled
- exhausted
- experienced
- geriatric
- getting on
- gray-haired
- grizzled
- hoary
- impaired
- inactive
- infirm
- matured
- not young
- olden
- oldish
- over the hill
- seasoned
- senile
- skilled
- superannuated
- wasted
past one's prime 的反义词 12 个
等同于 over-the-hill
更多past one's prime例句
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- The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
- Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
- He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
- There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
- Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
- Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.