old age
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˌold ˈage ●●○ noun [uncountable] OLD/NOT YOUNGthe part of your life when you are old 老年，晚年 → middle age You need to start putting money away for your old age. 你应该开始为晚年存钱了。in (somebody’s) old age My mother had a very lively mind, even in her old age. 我母亲思维十分活跃，即使到了晚年也依然如此。
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old age• We have old age pensions; but they are not sufficient.• Meat did not have a place in the diet, except in old age.• Coping with life in old age without drink may require an entirely new and improved self-image.• The inequality in life chances has therefore intentionally been reinforced in old age.• This indicates that drinking is often a response to an inability to cope with the many losses of old age.• Researchers have, very largely, identified loneliness as a problem of old age.• She's a little forgetful, but that comes with old age.in (somebody’s) old age• She looked rather as the Duchess of Windsor did in distracted old age.• It became streaked with white only in his extreme old age.• Children also took care of their parents in old age.• Without state pensions, many elderly people would be deprived of access to any substantial financial resources in their old age.• Desperate for more sons to provide for them in their old age, they kept trying.• Vladek in old age has lost the resilient bounce, if not the courage and obstinacy of his youth.• Sumner was a tall, strikingly handsome man with dark hair and a beard which turned white in old age.ˌold ˈage nounChineseSyllable
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old age
ˌold ˈage
noun [uncountable]
the part of your life when you are old ⇨ middle age:
You need to start putting money away for your old age.
in (sb’s) old age
My mother had a very lively mind, even in her old age.
ˌold ˈage
noun [uncountable]the part of your life when you are old ⇨ middle age:
in (sb’s) old age
Childhood/youth 童年／青年时期
be born and raised/bred in Oxford;be born into a wealthy/middle-class family在牛津出生并长大；在富裕／中产家庭出生 have a happy/an unhappy/a tough childhood有幸福／不幸／艰苦的童年 grow up in a musical family/in an orphanage/on a farm成长于音乐之家／孤儿院／农场 be/grow up an only child (= with no brothers or sisters)是独生子 reach/hit/enter/go through adolescence/puberty进入／经历青春期 be in your teens/early twenties/mid-twenties/late twenties十几岁；二十出头；二十五岁左右；将近三十岁 undergo/experience physical/psychological changes经历生理／心理变化 give in to/succumb to/resist peer pressure屈服于／顶住同辈的压力 assert your independence/individuality维护独立／个性
Adulthood 成年
leave school/university/home中学／大学毕业；离家 go out to work (at sixteen)（16 岁）投身工作 get/find a job/partner找到工作／伴侣 be/get engaged/married订婚；结婚 have/get a wife/husband/mortgage/steady job有妻子／丈夫／按揭贷款／稳定的工作 settle down and have kids/children/a family安定下来并生儿育女 begin/start/launch/build a career (in politics/science/the music industry)开始（政治／科学／音乐）职业生涯 prove (to be)/represent/mark/reach a turning point in your life/career最终成为／代表／标志／达到某人人生／某人职业生涯的转折点 reach/be well into/settle into middle age进入／安度中年 have/suffer/go through a midlife crisis经历中年危机 take/consider early retirement提前退休；考虑提前退休 approach/announce/enjoy your retirement临近／宣布／享受退休
Old age 老年
have/see/spend time with your grandchildren有孙辈；与孙辈共度时光 take up/pursue/develop a hobby开始／追求／培养一种爱好 get/receive/draw/collect/live on a pension得到／提取／领取退休金；靠退休金生活 approach/save for/die from old age临近晚年；存钱养老；老死 live to a ripe old age高寿 reach the grand old age of 102/23( often
活到 102／23 岁高龄（常作反语） be/become/be getting/be going senile( often
变得衰老（常作反语） die (peacefully)/pass away in your sleep/after a brief illness在睡梦中／患病不久（平静地）离开人世