例如:
At 54 years old her energy and looks are magnificent.
她54歲了,精力和氣色都非常好。
The car is less than a year old, and therefore still under guarantee.
這輛汽車用不到壹年,因此仍在保用期內。
用英語表示年齡的常用方法:
(1) 壹般直接用基數詞表示,如:
Her daughter is eighteen. 她的女兒18歲。
(2) 用“基數詞 + years old”表示,有時可將years old 換成years of age。如:
Her daughter is eighteen years old. / Her daughter is eighteen years of age. 她的女兒18歲。
(3) 用“at the age of +基數詞”表示。如:
Her daughter got married at the age of eighteen. 她的女兒18歲就結了婚。
(4) 用“基數詞-year-old”表示,此結構常做(前置)定語。如:
Her 18-year-old daughter is now in the university. 他18歲的女兒現在上大學。
(5) 用“of + 基數詞”表示,此結構常做後置定語。如:
Her daughter is now a pretty girl of 18. 她女兒現在壹個18歲的美少女了。
(6) 用“aged +基數詞”表示,此結構常做後置定語。如:
Lying on the floor was a boy aged about seventeen. 躺在地板上的是壹個約莫十七歲的男孩。
(7) 用“be in one’s +幾十的復數形式”表示某人大概的年齡。如:
He went to the United States in his fifties. 他五十多歲時去了美國。