old age

英 [ˌəʊld ˈeɪdʒ]

美 [ˌoʊld ˈeɪdʒ]

n.  老年; 暮年

Collins.1

牛津词典

noun

• 老年；暮年
  the time of your life when you are old
  1. Old age can bring many problems.
     人老麻烦多。
  2. He lived alone in his old age .
     他孑然一身度过晚年。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 老年；晚年
  Yourold ageis the period of years towards the end of your life.
  1. They worry about how they will support themselves in their old age...
     他们担心自己晚年的生活保障问题。
  2. In old age the two men wrote each other wistful letters.
     这两个人晚年时互通信函，诉说怀旧感伤之情。
• N-UNCOUNT 老龄；衰老；垂暮
  Old ageis the quality or state of being old and near the end of one's life.
  1. In Britain today we tend to consider old age as a social problem...
     在当今英国我们往往将老龄视为社会问题。
  2. He is unable to travel much because of old age.
     他年事已高，不能频繁出游。

英英释义

noun

• a late time of life
  1. old age is not for sissies
  2. he's showing his years
  3. age hasn't slowed him down at all
  4. a beard white with eld
  5. on the brink of geezerhood
  Synonym:yearsageeldgeezerhood

双语例句

• He saved money against old age.
  他攒钱防老。
• He is laying aside [ laying by] money for his old age.
  他在积储钱以备晚年之用。
• In his old age he became a benefactor of the arts.
  他晚年成了一个艺术赞助人。
• I told Louie that old age would curtail her activities in time
  我告诉路易，一上年纪她的活动量就会减少。
• Old age disabled him for hard work.
  年迈使他不能胜任繁重工作。
• But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age
  而他从青年时期一直到老年都始终保持着强烈的社会良知。
• I want a mile peace, a little quiet and tranquillity for my old age.
  我上年纪了，需要一点和平，一点安了和平静。
• Now's the time to salt something away for your old age.
  现在是你储存点东西防老的时候了。
• The deceased died of old age.
  已故者死于年迈。
• Life often seems to be marked off into different periods; schooldays, marriage, old age.
  生命似乎分为三个不同时期：学生时代，结婚，老年。