(1) 问某人年龄多大,通常说“How old are you?”除了在正式英语中,“What is your age?”不是很常用。
(2) 表示年龄,可以只说数字,或者数字+“years old”。
- He's thirty-five (years old).
他35岁了。 - At the time she was but a girl of not more than ten/a girl ten years old/ a ten-year-old girl/a girl half your age.
当时她不过是个不超过10岁的女孩/10岁的女孩/只有你一半大的女孩。
(3) 此外,表示年龄还有一些说法。
- He's a boy aged ten.
他是一个10岁的男孩。 - He's a gentleman of about sixty years.
他是一个大约60岁的绅士。 - He's twenty years of age .(of age 是书面语,口语用old)
他20岁了。 - Their ages are 4, 7 and 9.
他们的年龄分别是4岁、7岁和9岁。 - Fred died peacefully in his sleep at age 81.
弗雷德在睡眠中安然去世,享年81岁。 - At what age do children start school in your country?
在你们国家孩子们几岁入学? - Children usually begin school at the age of seven/at seven years of age.
孩子们通常7岁开始上学。 - When I was (of) your age, I began earning money to help support the family.
当我像你这么大时,就开始挣钱养家糊口了。 - I have a son (of) your age/a son the same age as you.
我有个与你同龄的儿子。 - They two are (of) the same age ./They two are (of) an age.
他们两个同岁。 - She ought to be earning her own living at her age.
在她这个年龄,她应该自食其力了。 - He died in the sixty-seventh year of his age.
他67岁时去世。
*此处,of one's age 是某人活到的年龄,前面有一个说明年龄的序数词。这是非常正式的用法(如在纪念碑、讣告中),平常只说“in his sixty-seventh year”。
- He won't be called up for military service; he is over age /he's passed a certain age or age limit.
他不会被征服兵役,他已超龄/他已超出一定年龄或年龄界限。 - He found he couldn't enter for the scholarship, as he was over age.
他发现自己不能报名参加奖学金考试,因为他已超龄。 - He's very healthy for (a man of) his age/his years.
对于他这个年龄来说,他算是很健康了。 - I'm your junior in years, but very much your senior in service.
我年龄比你小,可工龄却比你长得多。 - I'm junior/senior to him (by two years).
我比他年龄小/大 (两岁)。 - I'm his junior/senior by two years ./I'm two years junior/senior to him ./I'm two years his junior/senior.
我比他年龄小/大两岁。 - I'm your senior in years, but academically, you are senior to me.
论年龄我比你大,论学业你却高于我。 - Three days before Christmas 1983, she moved into an apartment she could barely afford, where she and her sons, then three and four, could start over.
就在1983年圣诞节前三天,她搬进了一所几乎住不起的公寓,在那里她和两个儿子,一个三岁,一个四岁,可以一切从头开始。 - She leads the normal life of a child about to turn 10.
她过着一个快到10岁的孩子所过的正常生活。
(4) 此外,还有一些说法。
- be of (full) age
成年 - come of age
成年 - a person of (full) age
成年人 - attain full age
到达成年 - be over age
超龄 - under/over the age of ten
不到/超过10岁 - under age
低于规定的最小年龄或未成年 - a person who is getting on in years/who is advanced in years
上年纪的人 - be in the prime of life/be in one's prime/be at life's flowering
风华正茂,年富力强 - He won't be called up for military service this year, for he is under age.
今年他不会被征召服兵役,因为他还不到年龄。