精通英语词汇100主题 | 第1期

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精通英语词汇100主题 | 第1期

五年前,小站曾推荐了 English Vocabulary Organiser 一书。

今天,小站新开了《精通英语词汇100主题》这个栏目,依托 English Vocabulary Organiser 一书的100个 units ,作更为细致全面的读书笔记和补充总结,在夯实基础(精准表达和情景化应用)的同时实现更深层次的延伸拓展(趣味解析跨文化内涵),旨在达成更精深、通透、高效的主题词汇学习。

以下便是第一期关于 Age 的主题词汇笔记。

【年龄那点事儿】

  • 准确的年龄
    be +基数词+years old(基数词-year-old)
    at the age of+具体年龄的数字
    be of an age with sb. (与某人同年)
  • 大概年龄
    几十多岁 → in one’s early/middle/late thirties
    快满……岁 → be getting on for +具体年龄
    差……到……岁 → off + 具体年龄
    不满……岁 → barely/nearly/almost + 具体年龄
    超过……岁 → past + 具体年龄

【值得积累的表达】

  • A elderly married couple (老夫老妻)vs May-December marriage (老夫少妻)
    拓展:to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss (白头到老)→ Darby and Joan
  • Aged wine (陈年老酒)vs Chronic illness (老病) vs Same old trick (老把戏)
    拓展:play the same old trick (故技重施)
  • Age limit/gap/group/discrimination (年龄限制/差别/段/歧视)
  • Over the hill (上了年纪、衰老) vs As old as the hills (很老的、极古老的)
  • On the wrong side of 40 (过了40岁) vs At the grand old age of 70 (70岁高龄)
  • The Atomic Age (原子时代) vs the Stone Age(石器时代)vs the Golden Age(黄金时代)
    拓展:in the prime of one’s life / in one’s prime (在某人生命的黄金时期)
  • Die in one’s bed at a ripe old age (寿终正寝)vs Die in one’s boots / die with one’s boots on (死于非命)

【需要厘清的表达】

  • Comes of age (成年) vs Under age (未成年)
  • Act one’s age (举止与年龄相称) vs Look your age (容貌与年龄相当)
    考考你:“Does not look his age?”到底是不是夸赞人年轻?
  • Feel your age (尤指与较年轻者比)感到上了年纪
    金句:You're only as old as you feel. (莫道桑榆晚,为霞尚满天)
  • The age of discretion (责任能力年龄)vs The age of consent (性同意年龄)
  • Juvenile delinquency (青少年犯罪) vs Early/late adolescence (青春期早/后期) vs Children’s palace(少年宫)
    金句:An idle youth, a needy age. (少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲)
  • The European Middle Ages (欧洲中世纪时期)vs The post-Cold War era (后冷战时代) vs The old good days (以往美好的日子) vs An epoch-making event (划时代事件)
    拓展:glacial epoch (冰期)

【值得积累的习语】

  • getting on in years (年龄渐长)
  • no spring chicken (不再年轻)
  • wet behind the ears (缺乏经验或幼稚的年轻人)
    联想:成语“乳臭未干”
  • long in the tooth (年迈的,老的)
    联想:成语“马齿徒增”

【值得积累的双语热词】

  • 人口老龄化
    population aging (出自2025政府工作报告双语全文)
  • 渐进式延迟退休年龄
    progressively raise retirement age
  • 劳动年龄人口
    the working-age population