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一、数词的巧妙运用——年龄的表达
1. 具体年龄的表达
(1)采用基数词(大于1)后加“years old”的形式;例如:
- 他十岁:He is ten years old。
- 凯利四岁:Kelly is four years old。
(2)使用“at the age of/at age/at”后接基数词;例如:
- 29岁时,戴夫是一名工人:At the age of 29, Dave was a worker.
- 68岁时,他从邮局退休了:At age 68, he retired from the post office.
(3)运用“基数词-year-old+可数名词单数”来表示整岁的某物;例如:
- 他带着一岁的妹妹搬到纽约:He moved with his parents and his one-year-old sister to New York City.
- 我是一名30岁的英语教师:I'm a 30-year-old teacher of English.
(4)利用名词(短语)后接数词的形式;例如:
- 对于一个20岁的年轻小伙子来说,这种生活可能缺乏吸引力:This sort of life is not calculated to appeal to a young man of 20.
2. 大概年龄的表达方式
(1)利用“in one's+整十基数词的复数形式”;例如:
- 在她二十多岁的时候,她曾多次去巴斯并待了很长时间:She paid two long visits to Bath in her twenties。
(2)注意事项与特殊表达
- 表示“快满多少岁”时,使用进行时或将来时:例如,He is getting on for seventy.
- 表示“不满多少岁”时,使用nearly、almost、quite、yet、just等副词。例如,I myself am a teenager, almost 16.
- 表示“超过多少岁”时,使用介词past:例如,Experts used to say that human life couldn't past 110.
3. 数词表示年龄的细微差别与注意事项
(1)“基数词+years+old”、“基数词-year-old”和“基数词-year-olds”的用法区别
- “基数词-year-olds”是复合名词,表示“……岁的人”:例如,There are many eighty-year-olds enjoying their life in the retirement community.