forties怎么读
英文词源
- forties (n.)
- 1843 as the years of someone's life between 40 and 49; from 1840 as the fifth decade of years in a given century. See forty. Also a designation applied in various places and times to certain oligarchies, ruling classes, or governing bodies.
It is well known that society in the island [Guernsey] is, or perhaps we ought to say, for many years was, divided into two sets, called respectively the Sixties and the Forties, the former composed of the old families and those allied to them, the latter of families of newly-acquired wealth and position. ["The Dublin Review," October 1877]
Roaring Forties are rough parts of the ocean between 40 and 50 degrees latitude.
forties的双语例句
- 1. She became quite a notable director in the thirties and forties.
- 她在三四十年代成了一位名导演。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Her mother had bundled all her Forties clothes up and burnt them.
- 她母亲把她四十几岁时穿的所有衣服都包起来烧掉了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. I went on competing till I was in my middle forties.
- 我继续参赛，直到45岁左右。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Eddie was a short squat fellow in his forties with thinning hair.
- 埃迪四十多岁，矮矮胖胖的，头发日渐稀疏。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. Unemployment among the over forties has risen sharply in recent years.
- 最近几年40岁以上的人的失业率大幅上升。
来自柯林斯例句
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