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生活中,在说明自己年龄的时候,我们经常会用到“20多岁”,那用英文该如何表达呢?有个超级地道的说法:twenty-something剑桥词典对这里的 -something 作了解释:used after a number like 20, 30 etc. to refer to the age of a person who is between 20 and 29, 30 and 39 years old, etc.They're both in their twenties and both married with children of their own.
还可以借助early,middle,late来表达得更明确一些,例如:The girl is in her early twenties.
He is in his middle twenties.She is in her late twenties.除了上面两种说法,英语中关于年龄的表达还有很多,一起来学习下:① 表示整岁,直接用基数词或year, age,比如“他20岁”就可以表示为:He is twenty (years old).
③ 表示“快满多少岁”用进行时或将来时,例如“他快满18岁了”可说成:He is getting on for eighteen.
④ 表示“不满多少岁”,用副词barely/nearly/almost/quite/yet等,例如“她不满17岁”有以下几种说法:She is barely/nearly/almost/quite/yet seventeen.
He is five months off nineteen.英文中还有个短语:today years old,大家知道是什么意思吗?来看看词典解释:a fancy way of saying that you just did or learned something for the first time.这个表达并不是在说年龄,而是表示“今天才知道”,有一种恍然大悟的感觉。I was today years old when I found out that loofahs are fruits.
推特网友还将“today years old”注册成了一个bot,专门发送一些生活中的冷知识。How old were y'all when you realized the indent in the offe cup lid is actually just a coaster?
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