英语中年龄表示法

年龄表示法种种

1.表示“某人…岁”：

（1）此短语只能作后置定语，修饰前面的名词，数词后不用years old.

例如：At that time he was just a boy of sixteen.

（2此短语用作状语，of后不用years old；作表语时省去介词,只用age.

例1：at the age of twelve Edison began selling newspapers on a train.

例2：When I was your age, I was made to work day and night.

（3）

例如：Be the time he was ten years old, he had already built a chemistry lab for himself.

（4）

例如：He is five-years-old boy, so he isn’t old enough to go to school.

2.

（1）.用

例如：Our English teacher will be forty.

（2）.用

例如：My father is nearly sixty.

3.

（1）此词组表示不确切的年龄。例如：When Marx was in his fifties, he began to learn Russian.

（2

例如：Grandpa Wang is over seventy.

4.，用

例1：The girl is almost eighteen.

例2. My father is about fifty.

5.

例1. My little sister is not five yet.

例2. My little sister is not quite five.