奥运口语：她已经到中年了

时间：2007-06-13 02:30:32

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She's middle-aged1./她已到中年了。

A: Your mother is very young.

A: 你的母亲很年轻。

B: No, she's not. She's middle-aged.

B: 不，她不年轻了。她已到中年了。

A: Middle-aged? She's only about 40.

A: 中年？她才40岁上下。

B: 40 is middle-aged. 40 is old!

B: 40岁就是中年。40岁的人老了！

A: 40 is not old! Wait till2 you're 40.

A: 40并不老！等你到40岁就知道了。

B: I never want to be middle-aged.

B: 我永远也不想到中年。

Notes 注释

1. Another way of describing3 people is by age. People can be young, middle-aged, or old. People don't see age in the same way, however4:
描述某人的另一种方法是通过年龄。人有年轻的、中年的或者老年的，但是人们看待年轻的方式不一样: Your mother is very young. (你的母亲很年轻。) No, she's not. (不，她不年轻了。)

2. Young people want to remain5 young: I never want to be middle-aged.
年轻人希望保持年轻: I never want to be middle-aged. (我永远也不想到中年。)


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1 middle-aged UopzSS     
adj.中年的
参考例句：
  • I noticed two middle-aged passengers.我注意到两个中年乘客。
  • The new skin balm was welcome by middle-aged women.这种新护肤香膏受到了中年妇女的欢迎。
2 till dovwL     
conj.直到(...为止)；n.(账台中)放钱的抽屉；prep.直到；pron.直到...为止，直到；vt.耕种
参考例句：
  • It was not till 11 o'clock that he came back last night.昨晚直到11点他才回来。
  • You can come to my house till all hours.你多晚来我家都没关系。
3 describing 2529a252a463b8bda343d1dad6ded9fc     
v.描写( describe的现在分词 )；叙述；画出（图形等）；形容
参考例句：
  • She is good at describing things or expressing ideas. 她善于描述事物或表达思想。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Certain grammatical rules must be followed when describing a conversation in reported speech. 在转述对话时必须遵循一定的语法规则。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 however 5c2xL     
adv.然而；conj.然而，可是，不过
参考例句：
  • It's raining hard.However,I still want to go there.虽然下着大雨，我还是想去那儿。
  • However, this does not always happen.然而，这种情况并不总是发生。
5 remain 5Bezs     
vi.保持，逗留，剩余，残存
参考例句：
  • The shops remain open until late every evening.这个商店每天晚上要营业到很晚才关门。
  • Let things remain as they have been in the past.让事情照旧吧！

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