middle-aged

middle-aged音标

英 ['mɪdl eɪdʒd]

美 ['mɪdl eɪdʒd]

middle-aged基本释义

adj.中年的

middle-aged用法及例句

adj

1. being roughly between 45 and 65 years old

1. 中年的If you describe someone as middle-aged, you mean that they are neither young nor old. People between the ages of 40 and 60 are usually considered to be middle-aged.

e.g. His sisters are grown up and his parents are middle-aged.他的姐妹们都已成人，而他的父母亲也人到中年。e.g. ...middleaged, married businessmen.已婚的中年商人

2. 具有中年人特点的;保守的;过时的If you describe someone's activities or interests as middle-aged, you are critical of them because you think they are typical of a middle-aged person, for example by being conventional or old-fashioned.

e.g. Her novels are middle-aged and boring.她的小说刻板乏味。

高考真题例句

OG 1.middle-aged

Middle-aged homemakers, retirees, and the unemployed come to such cafes to talk about love, anger, and dreams with a psychologist.

中年家庭主妇、退休人员和失业人员来到这样的咖啡馆与心理学家谈论爱情、愤怒和梦想。

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临近词

middle

middlemost

相关列句

His fan base is mostly middle-aged ladies.(他的粉丝群主要是中年妇女。)

A MIDDLE-AGED man felt chest pains.(一个中年男子感到胸痛。)

We come upon a small caravan camper with its door open to a late-middle-aged Scottish couple, sitting at a folding table, taking tea and biscuits.(我们遇到了一辆小型的大篷露营车，它的门开向一对中晚年的苏格兰夫妇，他们正坐在折叠桌旁，拿着茶和饼干。)

A smartly dressed, middle-aged lady came in and sat down.(一位衣着时髦的中年女士走了进来，然后坐下。)

The purpose of this study was to explore the Influences of progeniture convention on middle-aged and elderly woman's health concepts.(这项研究的目的是探讨后代惯例对中老年妇女健康观念的影响。)

Her novels are middle-aged and boring.(她的小说具有中年人的保守，而且枯燥乏味。)

My middle-aged friend says I should accept the inevitable fact that let the bones turn brittle, the skin shrivel and sag, the hair grey and thin.(我的中年朋友说，我应当接受不可避免的事实，让骨骼变得脆弱，皮肤枯萎松弛，头发稀疏变白。)

He looked all right – middle-aged, docile features, trustworthy.(他看上去不错，中年，相貌老实可信。)

If most of your fans are middle-aged, CD sales are holding up well.(如果一位歌手的爱好者大多是中年人，那么他的CD销量将相当可观。)

A middle-aged woman killed her husband， which frightened me very much.(一个中年女子杀害了自己的丈夫，这令我十分恐惧。)