Age

(noun.) how long something has existed; 'it was replaced because of its age'.

(noun.) a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; 'she was now of school age'; 'tall for his eld'.

(verb.) begin to seem older; get older; 'The death of his wife caused him to age fast'.

(verb.) make older; 'The death of his child aged him tremendously'.

编辑:韦斯利

• It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He was still only thirty-three years of age. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I little expected in this enlightened and scientific age to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• His services, with rare exceptions, grow less valuable as he advances in age and nervous strain breaks him down. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She has the age and sense of a woman, but the outs and not outs are beyond me. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• But at my age I can hardly get to the city, and therefore you should come oftener to the Piraeus. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• A highly characteristic event at the age of six is described by his sister. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She has lived for countless ages. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• But may not the areas of preponderant movement have changed in the lapse of ages? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Daylight developing soon followed, and the dark room, as far as the kodaker was concerned, took its proper place as a relic of the dark ages. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• And in ages to come we will reverence them and kneel before their sepulchres as at the graves of heroes. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It had been my profession, for years past, to be in this close contact with young girls of all ages, and of all orders of beauty. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Thinkest thou to escape from whence in all the countless ages but a single soul has fled? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Food--that was the problem of those long tired years which dragged through the ages, when nearly everyone was a farmer, and a farmer with crude tools held in his hands. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The aged ecclesiastic had turned his face towards me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Any of the staid, respectable, aged people who were there that night can testify to the truth of that statement. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But with my three daughters, Emma, Jane, and Caroline--and my aged father--I cannot afford to be selfish. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• If I didn't support a aged pairint, and a lovely sister,'--here the waiter was greatly agitated--'I wouldn't take a farthing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• To avoid being too abrupt, I then spoke of the Aged and of Miss Skiffins. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Bell, aged twenty-eight, explained his new idea to Henry, then aged seventy-eight. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Standing before the dressing-glass was a middle-aged lady, in yellow curl-papers, busily engaged in brushing what ladies call their 'back-hair. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Only a few middle-aged and ageing people in France had had any practical experience of warfare. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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