1.[c][u]年龄the number of years that a person has lived or a thing has existed
He left school at the age of 18.他 18 岁读完中学。
She needs more friends of her own age.她需要更多的同龄朋友。
children from 5–10 years of age5 至 10 岁的儿童
Young people of all ages go there to meet.不同年龄的年轻人都去那里聚会。
When I was your age I was already married.我在你这个年纪时已经结婚了。
He started playing the piano at an early age .他幼年开始弹钢琴。
All ages admitted.老幼均可入内。
Children over the age of 12 must pay full fare.12 岁以上儿童须购全票。
She was beginning to feel her age(= feel that she was getting old) .她开始感到自己上年纪了。
He was tall for his age(= taller than you would expect, considering his age) .以他的年龄，他算高个子。
There's a big age gap between them(= a big difference in their ages) .他们的年龄相差很大。
ways of calculating the age of the earth计算地球年龄的方法
2.[u][c]年龄段a particular period of a person's life
middle age中年
15 is an awkward age.15 岁是个尴尬的年纪。
He died of old age.他终其天年。
3.[c]（历史上的）时代，时期a particular period of history
the nuclear age核时代
the age of the computer计算机时代
4.[u]老年；陈年；破旧；老化the state of being old
Wine improves with age .陈酒味浓。
The jacket was showing signs of age.这件夹克已露出破旧的痕迹。
the wisdom that comes with age随着年龄而增加的智慧
5.[pl](informal)很长时间a very long time
I waited for ages .我等了好长时间。
It'll probably take ages to find a parking space.大概得老半天才能找到停车位。
Carlos left ages ago .卡洛斯老早就离开了。
It's been an age since we've seen them.我们有很长一段时间没有见到他们了。
6.[c]期a length of time which is a division of an epoch
It is illegal to sell cigarettes to children who are under age.售香烟给未到法定年龄的孩子是非法的。
It is illegal to sell cigarettes to children who are under age.售香烟给未到法定年龄的孩子是非法的。
1.[i]变老to become older
As he aged, his memory got worse.他随着年事增高，记忆力就变差了。
The population is aging(= more people are living longer) .人口正在老龄化。
2.[t]使显老；使变老；使苍老to make sb/sth look, feel or seem older
The shock has aged her.这次打击让她显得苍老了。
Exposure to the sun ages the skin.太阳暴晒会使皮肤粗老。
3.[i][t]（使）成熟，变陈to develop in flavour over a period of time; to allow sth to do this
The cheese is left to age for at least a year.这种奶酪至少要搁一年才成熟。
The wine is aged in oak casks.这种酒是用栎木酒桶放陈的。
At the age of 30, after a power struggle with a more experienced executive who had been hired to run the start-up company, he was out.
在他30岁那年，因为与被聘来经营这家初创公司的更有经验的高管发生了权力斗争，他离开了苹果。
At the age of 21, he started the rough journey of travelling around China in a wheelchair with a map and a compass.
岁的时候，这个年轻人竟怀揣一幅地图，手持一个指南针，摇着轮椅踏上了走遍全中国的艰难路途。
A woman never acknowledges such a nondescript age as forty-eight unless she is going to marry a widower with seventeen children.
一个女人决不会承认象四十八岁这样一个难以归类的年龄，除非她准备带着十七个孩子嫁给一个鳏夫。
Haggis decided at an early age to be a writer, and he made his own comic books.
哈吉斯很小就决定当一个作家，他创作了自己的滑稽故事书。
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
安妮希望自己已经跨过了羞怯的年龄，但她肯定没有跨过容易冲动的年龄。
Carlisle wasn't considering age too intently, as each of these decisions was spur-of-the-moment as well as life-or-death.
对于年龄卡莱尔并没有太多的考量，每一个都是在生死关头争分夺秒所作出的决定。
Talabani also said he produced 74-year-old Aziz Aziz's age and partly out of sympathy for the other, because he is an Iraqi Christian.
塔拉巴尼还说，他对74岁的阿齐兹产生的同情一方面出于阿齐兹的年龄，另一方面也因为他是一名伊拉克的基督徒。
For those of us relying on healthy habits to get us to age 100, the findings from a new study of centenarians may come as a bit of a blow.
对指望靠健康的习惯就能活到百岁的人来说，一项对百岁老人的最新研究结果也许是一个小小的打击。
The Gilded Age was one of extreme profligacy, both in business investment and sumptuous expenditure.
不管是商业投资、还是豪华消费，镀金时代（GildedAge）都算得上极度挥霍的时期之一。
They carried out a series of research projects called Person Perception to see how people estimate the age of others.
研究人员进行了一系列“年龄直觉”的研究项目，观察人们如何判断其他人的年龄。
There was also evidence linking a legal drinking age of 18 to a higher rate of unplanned pregnancies among young women.
人们已经证实低龄妇女的意外怀孕率升高与规定法定饮酒年龄为18岁有关。
Vargas hopes to be able to promote legislation to approve such an early age as he came to the United States, immigrants can become citizens.
巴尔加斯希望，借此能推动立法，批准像他这样自幼来到美国的外来移民能够成为公民。
All that, and the rise of the son, makes a repeat White House run by the father morelikely, no matter his age.
所有这些，加上小保罗的冉冉升起，让其父大保罗再度角逐白宫变得更为可能。
When my daughter reached the age of six, my wife and I decided to give her a small amount of pocket money.
我的女儿年满6岁时，我妻子和我决定给她一些零花钱。
She appeared to be in her 30s ( "Why don't you guess my age, " said the rail-thin sex worker, when asked).
她看上去三十来岁。（当问到年纪的时候，这位骨瘦如柴的性工作者说：“你干吗不猜猜我的年纪？”）
Today, at the food court in the mall, a beautiful girl about my age came up to me and hugged me with tears in her eyes.
今天，在百货公司的食品区，一个年纪和我差不多大的姑娘跑过来，还着眼泪拥抱了我。
But how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age; he will speak for himself.
至于他如今怎么看见了，我们却不知道，是谁开了他的眼睛，我们也不知道；你们问他吧，他已经成人，会替自己说话了。
Currently, in the United States, the general advice is for colonoscopy tests for colon cancer to begin at the age of 50.
目前，在美国一般在50岁开始就普遍建议做结肠癌检查。
"Jessica, " said her mother, who was also a study in what good clothing can do for age, "push that pin down in your tie -- it's coming up. "
“杰西卡，”她母亲说，她的穿着也可以帮助人们研究漂亮的服装能怎样美化上了年纪的人。“把领带夹别牢--快脱出来了。”
"But by age 10, those memories seem to get crystallized, " she said.
“但是到10岁的时候，他们的早期记忆似乎被冻结了，”她说道。
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