英語中“年齡”的表達(dá)
1.表示“整歲”,直接用基數(shù)詞或year,age,例如“他20歲”可表示為:
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“在某人幾十多歲”,用“in one's +基數(shù)詞復(fù)數(shù)形式”,例如:
他七十多歲。He is in his seventies.(從70歲到79歲之間)
她五十多歲。She is in her fifties.(從50歲到59歲之間)
還可以借助early,middle,late來表達(dá)得更明確一些,例如:
那女孩今年二十二、三歲。The girl is in her early twenties.
他今年十四、五歲。He is in his middle teens.
她今年二十八、九歲。She is in her late twenties.
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3.表示“快滿多少歲”用進(jìn)行時(shí)或?qū)頃r(shí),例如“他快滿十八歲了”可說成:
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“不滿多少歲”,用副詞barely,nearly,al- most,quite,yet,just等,例如“她不滿十七歲”有以下幾種說法:
She is barely /nearly /almost seventeen.
She is not quite /yet seventeen.
She is just under seventeen.
5.表示“差多久滿多少歲”用介詞off,例如:
他差5個月就滿19歲了。He is five months off nineteen.
她再過3年就50歲了。She is three years off fifty.
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6.表示“超過多少歲”用介詞past,例如:
他已年過50。He is past fifty.
他是一個過了中年的人。He is a man past middle age.
那孩子兩歲零兩個月。The baby is two months past two years old.
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