Age

[eɪdʒ] [ eɪdʒ]
  • 复数:ages;
  • 第三人称单数:ages;
  • 过去式:aged;
  • 过去分词:aged;
  • 现在分词:aging; ageing;
  • 例句
    同义词
    反义词
    同义词解析
    • 以下这些名词均包含 "时期,时代" 的意思
      age :常指具有显著特征或以某杰出人物命名的历史时代或时期。
      epoch :正式用词,侧重指以某重大事件或巨大变化为起点的新的历史时期。
      era :书面语用词,指历史上的纪元、年代,可与epoch和age互换,侧重时期的延续性和整个历程。
      period :最普通用词,概念广泛,时间长短不限,既可指任何一个历史时期,又可指个人或自然界的一个发展阶段。
      times :侧重某一特定时期。
    • 以下这些动词均有"成熟,长成" 的意思
      mature指生物自然发育成熟或丰满或使其能起正常作用,还可指人获得智慧、经验或变得世故。
      ripen侧重已到长生成熟的顶点。
      age一般指使人过早成熟,强调已走向衰老。
      develop侧重使某一种类或个体潜在本能进化完全,词义比mature广泛。
    词组
    • age out 【非正式用语】
      To reach an age, 18 or 21 years, for example, at which one is no longer eligible for certain special services, such as education or protection, from the state. 法定年龄:到达一定年龄,例如18岁或21岁,不再享受国家的诸如教育或保护的某些特殊照顾
    • act (或 be) one's age
      [usa. in imperative]behave in a manner appropriate to someone of one's age and not to someone much younger 行为与年龄相称
    • come of age
      (of a person) reach adult status (in UK law at 18, formerly 21) (人)成年(英国法律现规定18岁成年,原为21岁)
    • of an age
      old enough to be able or expected to do something 到了…的年龄 (of two or more people or things) of a similar age (两者,多人,多物)年龄近似的
    英语四级真题
    • We have presidential candidates running for their first term in office at age 68, 69 and 74.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Life Reimagined paints a picture of middle age that is far from gloomy.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • It helps slow down our aging process.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Even in the age of open-plan offices and social networks some work is best left to the individual.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Emailing the neuroscientist and memory researcher Jim McGaugh one day, she claimed that she could recall every day of her life since the age of 12.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • Contemporary artists have followed this tradition to create eggs that speak to the anxieties of our age: Life is precious, and delicate.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • At middle age, he wrote, the sowing is behind; now is the time to reap.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • It was like living in an age you could never have imagined, and that never has come back.
      出自-2017年6月听力原文
    • Whereas older generations are sometimes reluctant to adopt new technologies, driverless cars promise real value to these age groups in particular.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travelrelated technologies than older onesWhen it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • They reach a peak at the age of 20 for most people.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • They function quite well even in old age.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • The researchers are currently analyzing the study participants' health and lifestyle to see which factors might influence age-related cognitive changes.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • The findings shed light on normal age-related changes in mental function, which could aid in understanding the process of dementia ( ' , 痴呆), according to the researchers.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • On the other hand, indicators of a person's accumulated knowledge—like performance on tests of vocabulary and general knowledge—kept improving with age, according to findings published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • Not everyone wants a driverless car now—and no one can get one yet—but among those who are open to them, every age group is similarly engaged.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • It usually draws different rections from different age groups.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • It is the characteristics of the specific environment they are in, combined with their own personal characteristics—how healthy they feel they are, their age and marital status, Dr.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • It gradually expands with age.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • In a multi-state study of assisted living , for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether a chain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness, mental decline, hospitalizations or mortality.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • Dips in memory, meanwhile, generally became apparent around age 37.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • Seventy percent of girls aged 10 to 18 report that they define perfect body image based on what they see in magazines.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming.
      出自-2015年12月阅读原文
    • Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?.
      出自-2015年12月听力原文
    • A golden or lucky birthday is when one turns the age of their birth date.
      2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
    • As millennial women come of age they share many of the same views and values about work as their male counterparts.
      2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
    • At middle age, he wrote, "the sowing is behind; now is the time to reap."
      2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • At the time of the first interview, at least one of the partners was over the age of 50.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • But they continue to age, because aging is separate from their disease, Hayflick said.
      2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • By 2014, that milestone (里程碑) had shifted to age 29.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • By age 15, he had become an apprentice (学徒) to Sylvain Bailly, a well-known dessert chef with a successful bakery in one of Paris' most fashionable neighborhoods.
      2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • Emailing the neuroscientist and memory researcher jim McGaugh one day, she claimed that she could recall every day of her life since the age of 12.
      2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our wor
      2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
    • However, merely having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age.
      2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
    • I want to make sure that older adults are still able to enjoy their old age, and that they're not spending time in hospital with infections, feeling unwell and being generally weak.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • If you age more slowly over a longer time period, then you are in some sense younger for longer.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • In 1962, 50% of Americans were married by age 21.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • In a multi-stage life, you could be an undergraduate at 20, 40, or 60; a manager at 30, 50, or 70; and become an independent producer at any age.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • In a multi-state study of assisted living, for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether achain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship
      2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    • In a three-stage life, people leave university at the same time and the same age, they tend to start their careers and family at the same age, they proceed through middle management all roughly the same time, and then move into retirement within a few yea
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?
      2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
    • It is a mistake to simply equate longevity长寿with issues of old age.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • It's also the age range when many women are trying to balance careers and home.
      2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • I've found that my handiwork with yarn has helped my arthritic fingers remain more dexterous as I age.
      2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    • life Reimagined paints a picture of middle age that is far from gloomy.
      2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • Longevity also pushes back the age of retirement, and not only for financial reasons.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • My research focus is on what happens to our immune system as we age.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14.
      2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • On the first of January, new regulations will come into effect which eliminate an annual leave bonus for people who put off marrying until the age of 23 for women and 25 for men, the South China Morning Post reports.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
    • On the other hand, scientists are increasingly learning that aging and biological age are two different things, and that the former is a key risk factor for conditions such as heart disease, cancer and many more.
      2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • Our philosophy is to inspire kids at a young age to understand that engineering is a great career.
      2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
    • Participants were balanced across the three groups for age, sex, educational background, severity and duration of depression, and use of antidepressant.
      2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
    • Perhaps most exciting is research that suggests that crafts like knitting and crocheting may help to keep off a decline in brain function with age.
      2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    • Psychologists have shown that babies apparently expect their world to comply with the laws of physics and cause and effect as early as two months of age.
      2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
    • So far, participants have ranged in age from 2 to 85.
      2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
    • So say "good night" sooner and it may help you stay active and vital to a ripe old age.
      2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • Take, for instance, the age at which people make commitments such as buying a house, getting married, having children, or starting a career.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • The average age of first marriage has risen steadily for decades.
      2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • The real impact of our research is going to be on health in old age.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • This is evidence that our immune system really doesn't function so well when we age.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • This may not be surprising given that this is the age range when women have children.
      2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age 35.
      2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age.
      2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • Today, the legal driving age for a car in the UK is 17.
      2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • When it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age.
      2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • While there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.
      2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
    • with this variety will come the end of the close association of age and stage.
      2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    英语六级真题
    • Middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives, said Loh.
      出自-2017年6月阅读原文
    • You will face problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before.
      出自-2017年6月听力原文
    • Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.
      出自-2016年6月阅读原文
    • Still, there are good reasons to make positive changes in how we live and what we eat as we age.
      出自-2016年6月听力原文
    • From a very early age, some children exhibit better self-control than others.
      出自-2016年6月听力原文
    • Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.
      出自-2016年6月听力原文
    • The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • 99 Occupational stress increases the risk of heart attack and diabetes, accelerates the aging process, decreases longevity, and contributes to depression and anxiety, among numerous other negative health outcomes.
      出自-2016年12月阅读原文
    • The leading causes of death in this age group are also changing.
      出自-2016年12月听力原文
    • In thousands of ways, social workers help other people—people from every age, every background across the country.
      出自-2016年12月听力原文
    • In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.
      出自-2016年12月听力原文
    • But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.
      出自-2016年12月听力原文
    • And in 2010, the researchers reported that children aged 12 to 17 saw more athlete-endorsed food and beverage brand commercials than adults.
      出自-2016年12月听力原文
    • "middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives," said Loh.
      2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    • "Once we scale up, algorithms must be sensitive to tiny changes in identities and at the same time invariant to lighting, pose, age," Kemelmacher-Shlizerman said.
      2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • All 67 participants were over 60 years of age, and both groups lost about the same amount of weight.
      2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.
      2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • Benjamin Franklin produced some of his best writings at the age of 84, and Pablo Picasso put brush to canvas right through his eighties.
      2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
    • But telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age, that's a powerful message.
      2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
    • Evolutionarily speaking, people in this age group are at a stage in which they can prepare to find a mate and start their own family while separating from parents and striking out on their own.
      2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • In a 2005 study, psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his co-author, psychologist Margo Gardner, then at Temple, divided 6 people into three age groups: young adolescents, with a mean age of 14; older adolescents, with a mean age of 19
      2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
    • In this globalised age, there is a good case for international travel.
      2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
    • Psychologists have documented children lying as early as the age of two.
      2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • The average age of farmers hovers around 58 years old, but he is just 26.
      2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
    • The children who had the lowest self-control when they were age three to ten, later on had the most health problems in their thirties, and they had the worst financial situation.
      2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • The Mediterranean groups had lower mortality rates in all age brackets and from all causes, particularly from heart disease.
      2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • The misconception of resilience is often bred from an early age, parents trying to teach their children resilience might celebrate a high school student staying up until 3am to finish a science fair project.
      2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
    • The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.
      2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
    • This is a grand challenge for our age and it may require an "irrational" response.
      2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
    • This is the story of wildlife conservation in the age of mass extinction.
      2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
    • This suggests that babies of that age can tell the difference between a happy melody and a sad tune.
      2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    • Though he didn't come from a farming family, from a young age tim Joseph was fascinated by the idea of living off the land.
      2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
    • You probably remember that human infants are less developed physically than other mammals of the same age.
      2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
    柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
    英汉词典释义
    英英词典释义
    • Noun
      1. how long something has existed;
      "it was replaced because of its age"
      2. an era of history having some distinctive feature;
      "we live in a litigious age"
      3. a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises;
      "she was now of school age""tall for his eld"
      4. a late time of life;
      "old age is not for sissies""he's showing his years""age hasn't slowed him down at all""a beard white with eld""on the brink of geezerhood"
      5. a prolonged period of time;
      "we've known each other for ages""I haven't been there for years and years"
    • Verb
      1. begin to seem older; get older;
      "The death of his wife caused him to age fast"
      2. grow old or older;
      "She aged gracefully""we age every day--what a depressing thought!""Young men senesce"
      3. make older;
      "The death of his child aged him tremendously"
    行业词典
    • 医学: 年龄,时期:以单位时间计的个体生活时间;智龄:衡量某种个体特性,以一般正常人显示同等熟练程度的时序(实足)年龄回报,如智力成就年龄;老化,老衰:时间流逝带来的改变;
      土木工程: 时效硬化;age-hardening;
      地质学: 期;
      水产: 年龄体长换算表;length key 根据各体长组的年龄组成绘制的表格。;
      物理学: 时效沉积;age-deposition;
      电力: 时效硬化;age hardening;