1. 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.
2. 表示“在某人几十多岁”,
用“in one's +基数词复数形式”,例如:
他七十多岁。he is in his seventies.(从70岁到79岁之间)
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.
他今年十四、五岁。he is in his middle teens.
她今年二十八、九岁。she is in her late twenties.
3.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.
he will be eighteen years old.
it will be his eighteenth birthday.
4.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.
she is not quite /yet seventeen.
she is just under seventeen.
5.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.
她再过3年就50岁了。she is three years off fifty.
6.表示“超过多少岁”
用介词past,例如:
他已年过50。he is past fifty.
他是一个过了中年的人。he is a man past middle age.
那孩子两岁零两个月。the baby is two months past two years old.
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