英语单词 | middle-aged |
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英美音标 | 英 ['mɪdl eɪdʒd] 美 ['mɪdl eɪdʒd] |
中文释义 | adj.中年的 |
英语例句 | (1) Middle age dulled her appetite for travel. (2) It was so, when the university students calling me Auntie, the incorrigible, and I knew I was slowly sliding into the middle of the space-time tunnel. |
中文例句 | (1) 中年的年龄使他的对旅行的欲望变得迟钝。 (2) 于是就这样,当大学生也称呼我阿姨时,不可救药的,我知道自己慢慢的滑入了中年的时空隧道。 |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]中年的 If you describe someone as middle-aged, you mean that they are neither young nor old. People between the ages of 40 and 60 are usually considered to be middle-aged. [
2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]具有中年人特点的;保守的;过时的 If you describe someone's activities or interests as middle-aged, you are critical of them because you think they are typical of a middle-aged person, for example by being conventional or old-fashioned. [disapproval]
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