英语中年龄表示法
年龄表示法种种
1. 表示“某人…岁”:
(1
此短语只能作后置定语,修饰前面的名词,数词后不用years old.
例如:At that time he was just a boy of sixteen.
(2)
of后不用years old;作表语时省去介词,只用age.
例1:at the age of twelve Edison began selling newspapers on a train.
例2:When I was your age, I was made to work day and night.
(3)例如:Be the time he was ten years old, he had already built a chemistry lab for himself.
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4) 例如:He is five-years-old boy, so he isn’t old enough
to go to school.
2.(1).用
例如:Our English teacher will be forty.
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2).用
例如:My father is nearly sixty.
3.
(1)
此词组表示不确切的年龄。 例如:When Marx was in his fifties, he began to learn Russian.
(2例如:Grandpa Wang is over seventy.
4.
,用
例1:The girl is almost eighteen.
例2. My father is about fifty.
5.用
例1. My little sister is not five yet.
例2. My little sister is not quite five.