英语听力汇总   |   英语不同阶段“年龄”的表示法

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  Ⅰ.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.

  Ⅱ.表示“在某人几十多岁”,用“in one’s+基数词复数形式”,例如:

  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.

  Ⅲ.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.

  Ⅳ.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.

  Ⅴ.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.

  Ⅵ.表示“超过多少岁”用介词past,例如:

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

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