| 词汇 | grammar_british-grammar_age |
| 语种 | 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译 |
| 释义 | AgeWe use age as a noun to refer to how many years someone has lived:
At the age of … is a common expression:
Warning: We don’t say in the age of when we refer to people’s age:
When we talk about someone’s age, we use of age or old. Of agesounds more formal than old:
When asking direct questions about someone’s age or the age of a thing, we don’t normally use age. We say How old …?
We only use What age …? in more formal situations:
Age or ages can also be used to mean ‘a long time’, or a specific long period in history:
We say the Middle Ages to refer to the period of European history from about the sixth to the sixteenth century AD:
Middle age and middle-aged refer to a person’s life from the ages of about 40 to 65:
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