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mental age

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˌmental ˈage noun [countable]  MPTMa measure of someone’s ability to think, understand etc, expressed as the average age of a child with that level of ability 智力年龄,心理年龄 a 25-year-old man with a mental age of seven 一个智力年龄为7岁的25岁男子
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mental ageA person of 18 with Down's syndrome and a mental age of four, living with his or her parents?A medical report estimated she had a mental age of seven years and nine months.George Mayo is sixty two, but only has a mental age of six.Children with a mental age of 3 years and above can understand the principle and benefit from its use.Daughter Helen, 25, needed constant attention after whooping cough left her with a mental age of just two.A.. There are some people whose physical and mental age is a whole lot younger than their nominal age.Most of the boys' mental age is about eleven.The most pathetic case was that of a middle-aged man with the mental age of a child of nine.
ˌmental ˈage nounChineseSyllable
of Corpus think, someone’s a to measure etc, ability understand


mental age
ˌmental ˈage noun [countable]
a measure of someone’s ability to think, understand etc, expressed as the average age of a child with that level of ability:
    a 25-year-old man with a mental age of seven


mental ageBrE /ˌmentl ˈeɪdʒ/ 🔊NAmE /ˌmentl ˈeɪdʒ/ 🔊 noun [countable, usually singular] the level of sb's ability to think, understand, etc. that is judged by comparison with the average ability for children of a particular age 智力年龄;心理年龄She is sixteen but has a mental age of five. 她十六岁,但智力年龄是五岁。🔊🔊   compare chronological (2)