Definition of age in English:

age

nounPlural ages eɪdʒeɪdʒ

1The length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed.
年龄
he died from a heart attack at the age of 51
他51岁时死于心脏病。
he must be nearly 40 years of age
他肯定近40岁了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Till the age of five she lived in Kollam, then Quilon, and left for New York with her parents in 1941.
- There were 30 female students and 20 male students whose ages ranged from 9-10 years of age.
- Three hundred people of all ages attended a birthday service in York Minster.
- The club aims to provide entertainment for teenagers between the ages of 15 to 18 years in a fun and supervised environment.
- Only McKinlay survived, living to the age of 95 when he died in Glasgow in 1983.
- Dr Baig had many patients of varying ages who lived on their own and were suffering some form of depression, mainly from the lack of human interaction.
- The children are of varying ages and live as any other family anywhere in the world does.
- The girl was about fourteen years of age, shoulder length blonde hair and deep green eyes.
- At seventeen years of age and a senior at High School in Boston he was outstanding.
- The servicemen recorded their age, rank, length of service, and marital status.
- For children, symptoms may be present between the ages of 2 to 4 years of age while presentation of symptoms occurs at start of school.
- Workers under 50 years of age can expect to live well into their eighties.
- She moved to 88 Park Row when she was one year of age, and lived there until she was married in 1984.
- Membership is open to girls between the ages of seven and ten.
- None of us of this generation, I know, will be able to live up to the age of 126.
- Enthusiastic young people between the ages of 12 and 18 are invited to apply for the classes which take place on a two hour basis on Saturdays.
- On Tuesday next all children between the ages of 6 and 9 are invited to come along and take part.
- Imagine you're over 60 years of age and a squatter living in the largest slum in Kenya.
- In all honesty, I don't have many relatives that have lived to ripe old ages apart from my maternal Grandfather.
- The supervisors were from 33 to 47 years of age.
Synonyms
number of years, lifetime, duration, length of life
stage of life, generation, age group, peer group
years, summers, winters
1. 1.1 A particular stage in someone's life.
  人生的特定阶段
  children of primary school age
  学龄儿童。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She has made many appearances on stage from a young age in local musicals - South Pacific and Annie.
  It's high school students, the elderly, and all the ages in between.
  We work with all ages of people from toddlers to the elderly, men and women, new people moving into the area to people who have lived here all their lives.
  That is about 540,000 people of all ages, including the elderly, single mothers and children.
  The children are separated into several classes according to their ages before they are enrolled into primary school.
  Taking seven kids at different ages and stages to Disney World all at once!
  Of course, people of all ages and histories could be found among the fans.
  Every British citizen, of every age, has the right to voice their opinions and be heard by decision-makers.
  At one stage he decided to show his friends of his own age that he could fire an arrow.
  They covered all ages, from primary school pupils to pensioners.
  Four-fifths of primary school governor chairmen felt teenage pregnancy should start to be discussed at primary ages, although only three out of ten schools covered the topic at that stage.
  Astrella Celeste has been performing on stage with her father from a young age and in her own right.
  It's no use trying to get people of my age to change their behaviour - they're just not going to.
  A large crowd, various ages and nationalities, circled a cement stage, writing messages with chalk provided.
  He and his friend Tobias Seeger needed only a few seconds to name the three girls their age who still live in town.
  For seven years the organisation has offered information, advice and support to carers of all ages who help to look after elderly or disabled relatives and friends.
  Paddlers of all ages and abilities are now getting into the last stages of training for the gruelling 125-mile marathon that is the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race.
  The stage will be open to all ages and types of acts.
  Currently arrangements are being made for admission to the local primary school for those of school going ages and hopefully free transport will be arranged.
  Her classes are suitable for people of any age and ability.
  He found men with heart disease had lower levels of testosterone than men of similar age and character with normal coronary arteries.
2. 1.2mass noun The state of being old.
  fine wine improves with age
  Example sentencesExamples
  The cup final was a clash of age and experience against youth and strong will.
  Like the best food and drink, hopefully it will improve with age.
  The best of the chateaux make outstanding wines that improve with age, in taste and often in value.
  Like a good wine, road racer Ian continues to improve with age.
  But the car shows its age with a distinct lack of storage space and frustratingly fiddly stereo controls.
  It is the Rolls Royce of awards ceremonies and, unlike most winners' faces, has only improved with age.
  The aim here is to restore the hormones that decline with age to their youthful levels.
  Give him his due though, his voice improves with age and Young is possibly one of the country's finest soul singers of the classic mould.
  At one level, the grandmother urge seems just a natural element of the cycle of life, which you come to feel more sensitively with age.
  Most beers are brewed to be drunk immediately but a handful of brewers are now producing beers that are intended to improve with age.
  The drug agency suggested that implants might be like cars or tires, which wear out with age.
  The acting, unlike the cheese it so resembles, has not improved with age.
  The researchers found that neuroticism declined with age in women but did not change in men.
  Solano has played in all but one Villa game so far this season and has lost none of his skill and crossing ability with age.
  Carlin, by the way, is a rock god, a true legend who just keeps getting better and better with age.
  Moreover, age will not improve what was sub-standard to start with.
  But he has always had depth, and like the wine in his cellar he improves with age.
  Do you simply have to wait for time to take its toll, for age to get him out of office?
  Well, seminar after seminar makes the point that bad news doesn't get better with age.
  No matter how much you looked after your body, with age mental and physical abilities start to deteriorate, no fault of your own.
  If anything the sheer poignancy and compelling simplicity of this vision of our existence deepens with age.
  We desperately need age, experience and character on the backbenches of our parliament.
  I hate to admit it at this late age, but it was the first time I saw the entire film.
  If wisdom does come with age, I should be very, very wise by now - having aged a good decade in the last 24 hours.
  Although it is the case that on average these abilities will go down with age, some people within the groups stay the same or even get a bit better.
  Even the really basic stuff like why does red wine get better with age and white wine worse?
  I miss the way her hands felt, her skin so soft and loose with age, but always comforting.
  These found that few people with age related macular degeneration experienced improved vision with surgery.
  In fatal cases, advanced age has been found to be the most important risk factor.
  I suggest it's probably bad for your career to be too up-front about age because people are so stupid about it.
  These are delicate, feminine and subtle wines, which are designed to improve with age.
  Synonyms
  elderliness, old age, oldness, seniority, maturity, dotage, senility
  one's advancing/advanced years, one's declining years, the winter/autumn of one's life
  formal senescence
  archaic eld
  rare caducity
2A distinct period of history.
年代，时代
an age of technological growth
技术发展的年代。
Example sentencesExamples
- So what we see is not a story of the past, but today's stories set against the previous age or period.
- In the age of reality, television is increasingly the realm of the amateur.
- We live in an age in which laws, rules, regulations, charters, policies and practices intrude on every aspect of our lives.
- The civil liberties case against ID cards is a feeble one that belongs to a more innocent age.
- Fraser claims to hate ‘the modern world’ and would doubtless prefer to have lived in the Victorian age.
- Historical novels can introduce children to how people lived in other ages, even if told with contemporary sensibilities in mind.
- His writings are also a major source for the social history of his age.
- Indeed, I believe its popularity is an important feature of the intellectual history of the present age.
- This is the age where the television performs the role of a baby-sitter, than a means of entertainment.
- We face the Brown era in fiction and a dark age for popular history.
- We live, after all, in one of the most conformist ages in history - the age of reason as we like to call it.
- The relationship between Aubrey and Maturin doesn't need to be explained by reference to any of the various ages of history.
- As any school text will tell you, this was primarily an age of invention and rapid material progress.
- Raising the club's profile in this media-dominated age is of vital importance to club's like York City.
- Thus perished one of the greatest statesmen of his age and of Dutch history.
- We live in an age when attention deficit disorder is rife amongst adults and children alike and brevity is a prized quality.
- Human history can be divided into two distinct ages - the geocentric and the heliocentric.
- In the age of television and the Internet, we are not returning to the preliterate, but descending into the postliterate.
- He would have been remarkable in any age, in the age in which he lived, he is utterly amazing.
- During the ages of history human nature has undergone no essential change.
Synonyms
era, epoch, period, time, aeon, span
1. 2.1Geology A division of time that is a subdivision of an epoch, corresponding to a stage in chronostratigraphy.
  〔地质〕代
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, there seems to be a marked age gap between the Cretaceous ages and onset of rifting in the Eocene.
  The bulk of the sediments on the outer margin are of Eocene to Oligocene age with thin units of younger sediments on top.
  It happened 252 million years ago, at the boundary of the Permian and Triassic geological ages.
  However, a range of volcanic ages from Lower Cambrian to Early Devonian is suggested on biostratrigraphic grounds.
  All other ages, epochs, and eras are represented by natural evolutionary and geological phenomena.
2. 2.2ages/an ageBritish informal A very long time.
  〈非正式〉很长时间
  I haven't seen her for ages
  我很长时间没见她了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I promise I won't write about television for ages.
  The French Connection hasn't been on television for ages.
  I was reading WIRED for the first time in ages the other day, and found myself getting annoyed all over again at the breathless prose they use in their articles.
  You wait ages for a television drama about what it's like to be fortysomething - wait until you're halfway through your 40s, in fact - and then four come along at once.
  I'm starting to slip back into my nocturnal, staying up very late self again because I was up ages the other night working on my Physics coursework.
  Some of the stage crew at Stratford who've been there for ages have said how my voice is just like my father's.
  Finally after what seemed like ages we had our drinks and were sitting outside.
  The infirm and ill were beamed to safe havens ages ago.
  Synonyms
  a long time, a lifetime, an eternity, seemingly forever
  hours, days, months, years, aeons, hours/days/months on end, ages and ages, a month of Sundays
  British informal yonks, donkey's years
  North American informal, dated a coon's age

verbages, aged, ageing, aging eɪdʒeɪdʒ

[no object]

1Grow old or older.
the tiredness we feel as we age
随着年龄增长我们感到的疲劳。
Example sentencesExamples
- A lot of the content hasn't aged especially well in the past few decades, and much of the humor is still aimed at 10-year-olds.
- What happens as she ages and her voice grows out of the girlishness it can't get away from, deepens into a woman's voice expressing a woman's soul.
- Shanghai has seen its population ageing for the past two decades, with senior residents now accounting for over 18 per cent of its population.
- The objective was meant to prepare senior citizens to age gracefully and live a meaningful life.
- He aged and became senile, but no batter how shrunken his body became, he remained alive.
- We are all going to age, but why allow ourselves to age faster than need be?
- The couple claimed that because the tiles had aged they would no longer match and the whole lot should be replaced.
- Events happen day to day, as the episodes are broadcast, and unwind slowly with the years, so that characters grow and age in real time.
- And you will age in the same neighbourhoods; and you will grow grey in these same houses.
- As Florida's answer to punk rock closes in on a decade of making music, their fan base may be growing, but it doesn't seem to be aging.
- He has teamed with Paul Simon, one of the few rock - era songwriters to mature as he aged, for a double blast of complex musicianship and high harmony.
- As my mother aged she grew more and more scattered and frustrating in a number of ways.
- As their home countries' economies grow and populations age, these flows are likely to get smaller.
- Paramilitary bosses were ageing and their members grown rich on cross-border smuggling, robbery and money laundering.
- Although we cannot stop aging, we can certainly stop growing old.
- I think they've aged in a lot of ways, but I don't think their essential character has changed.
- Ng said Hong Kong's population was ageing and the government's medical expenditure would continue to grow.
- I've been looking at some pictures of when I first came and I've aged an awful lot.
- As he aged, Kantanos had grown more accustomed to his way of life, had accepted it.
- Access to advanced medical devices is key to ensuring that the nation's healthcare system keeps pace with a population that is growing and aging.
- She wondered what he would look like if he had been allowed to age to twenty-five years.
- You have Baby Boomers aging, a lot of them tremendous health care bills.
- If one is fortunate enough to be associated with a university, even as one ages, teaching allows one to contribute to, and vicariously share, in the creativity of youth.
- Her cat is slowly aging and requires a lot of care.
- Populations are aging and the need for an augmented labour force is growing.
- Now, Paterson is slight, but he is fast, he is willing, he is clever, and he is only going to get better and better as his rugby career, and his waist and chest and thighs, grow as he ages and matures.
1. 1.1with object Cause to appear old or older.
  he even tried ageing the painting with a spoonful of coffee
  他甚至试着用一勺咖啡来让画看起来古旧。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I'm not a feudal vassal, thank God, as all that toiling in the fields ages one horribly.
  And, having become a specialist in prosthetics, he was responsible for ageing Damian Lewis in the recent re-make of The Forsyte Saga.
  I wished that I had aged the paper first by soaking in tea, as I usually do.
  Movie magic had aged the paint and metal to make it look antique.
  She's a young woman and I didn't want to get her something that would age her, so I went with the single pearl.
  Mrs. G. said that it was the sudden losses, not the passing years, that had aged her unexpectedly.
  As for domesticity, it ages one rapidly, and distracts one's mind from higher things.
  Dark lipstick ages you, it's true, but when you are 20 you want to look older than your age.
  It was plenty warm outside, but the shawl would age her appearance even more.
2. 1.2 (with reference to an alcoholic drink, cheese, etc.) mature or allow to mature.
  （尤指酒精饮料）变得陈香；使醇香
  no object the wine ages in open vats or casks
  葡萄酒在敞口的大木桶中变得陈香。
  with object a cheese that has been aged for four months
  Example sentencesExamples
  And raw-milk cheeses aged more than 60 days are not risk-free either.
  Spirit labelled ‘brandy’ must be distilled from wine made from the fermentation of grapes and by law has to be aged for a minimum of three years in oak barrels.
  The taste is unique with a charcoal mellowed flavour that contains influences from the barrel it was aged in with hints of caramel, vanilla, and oak.
  It's best to have one that's made with the same material that your wine is aged in.
  If good wines need time to age properly, the same could said of speeches.
  The culturing process continues as the mild cheddar is allowed to age for about two months.
  The big question, therefore, particularly given the lack of acidity, is whether these wines will age well.
  Cheeses age at different rates and must be held at constant temperatures to achieve their optimum flavour.
  For three years the wine is aged in new barrels made of hand-split oak staves.
  The merchants then aged the wine, bottled and sold it around the world often featuring the merchant's name prominently.
  The wine is aged for 3 years, with at least two years in oak barrels before release.
  Of course, now comes the hard part, the one in which you have to wait and let the jars rest, allowing them to age on a shelf in the cool cellar.
  Quality Vouvray, either dry or sweet, demands to be aged.
  Time flew, and before long, those good-value wines aged and became almost too good to drink - was there ever an occasion important enough?
  Firstly, for a €13 bottle, this was compelling wine that aged and evolved very interestingly over four or five years.
  For if you allow these beauties to age, even if only for a minute, they will lose their sharpness, their appeal and their zest.
  The wine will age, our anger with France will pass, and we'll buy that Burgundy in a few years.
  While this may sound rather unpleasant, it is the tannin which provides the structure of red wines and allows them to age and mature.
  Madeira is the only wine in the world where heat is deliberately applied to age the wine artificially.
  We bought six bottles then and they have been aging nicely and drinking excellently now.
  Synonyms
  mature, ripen, mellow, become/make mellow, season, condition, soften, sweeten, grow up, come of age
  grow/become/make old, weather, (cause to) decline, wither, fade
3. 1.3with object Determine how old (something) is.
  决定（某物）的年龄
  we didn't have a clue how to age these animals
  我们无从知晓这些动物的年龄。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Birds were aged according to a regression equation for age on the length of the wing for storks.
  All captured birds were aged (young of the year or adult), sexed, and marked.
  The fish are aged by identifying and counting the number of annulus found on a fish scale.
  Timed embryos were aged more specifically by morphology.
  Cubs were aged when they were first seen, when their age could be estimated to within an accuracy of 1 month.

Phrases

act (or be) one's age

usually in imperativeBehave in a manner appropriate to someone of one's age and not to someone younger.
行为与年龄相称
Example sentencesExamples
- It's become apparent in recent years that 40 is the new 30, that 50 is the new 40, that no one wants to act their age.
- Since the theme of the week is apparently not knowing how to act one's age…
- This year something remarkable has happened in Hollywood: women are everywhere, playing the best parts, even acting their age.
- The rapper is 16 years old and ready to start acting his age.
- I won't grow up, I won't slow down, I won't act my age.
- Yes - this winter showed me that I'm not a youngster any more - even if I still don't act my age!
- It's here that she realizes that shutting out love won't bring back her mother, and that she really does need to start acting her age.
- I would have to change my ways completely, I'd have to grow up, act my age, be responsible and actually have a go at making a relationship work.
- And no, this is one actress who doesn't change the subject when you ask her age and, yes, she's comfortable with ‘acting her age’, never mind that she had been a heart-throb when she left the industry.
- You know what happens when you don't let kids loose, when you take away their right to act their age or be better than someone else at something or be able to win, place or show?
- What makes the whole thing work on a deeper level is that Curtis not only acts her age but shows it.
- They actually acted their age… Most of the time, when we're out for dinner, they tend to poke and prod at each other, clown around etc, I'm sure they do it to wind me up.
- ‘But I have never felt or acted my age, and I didn't want to start now,’ Heather says.
- They no longer feel that they have to act their age, but have released themselves to no longer worry ‘What will people think?’
- Just for You is more sedate in tone, and both stars are playing more mature characters - indeed, since Bing has a teenaged son in this movie, it's appropriate for him to act his age a little more.
- What happens when the football stops, when those 35-year-old legs give up the pretence and start acting their age?
- I can now rely on a regular commentary on their allowance, my manipulation of their weekend schedules to give me time to put my feet up and my failure to act my age when talking to their friends.
- Just because we can steer the car with our beer bellies these days, it doesn't mean that we have to act our age.
- People say act your age, but what is that supposed to mean?
- Ah, with that cute smile one can only hope that she grows up to be a good person, still acts her age and does not become the typical self-conscious Indonesian celebrity.
- So he stands supreme in terms of a sportsman not acting his age.

come of age

1Reach adult status (in UK law at 18, formerly 21).
（人）成年（英国法律现规定18岁成年，原为21岁）
Example sentencesExamples
- Young people mark their coming of age in different ceremonies or initiations.
- Many of these are young people who had not yet come of age at the time of the previous elections.
- The key to Hong Kong's emergence was its status as a free port at the edge of China, but the emergence of a national identity dates to the early 1970s, when a generation of young people born and raised in Hong Kong came of age.
- Teens and young adults will come of age taking the Internet for granted, as their parents did television, as their grandparents did telephones.
- They shared the overriding objective of preserving for the time he came of age the inheritances won by his grandfather and father in England and France.
- He faced the prospect of losing his position, and might be motivated to ensure his long-term power and status beyond the point of the rightful monarch coming of age.
- These people are the adults of tomorrow and are coming of age.
- For young people coming of age now I think it's particularly sad, because I feel like I had it just 10 years ago.
- Young people coming of age imbibed this political atmosphere, for the most part unconsciously.
- Adolescent Development and Rapid Social Change addresses the psychological consequences for these young people who came of age during a time of such uncertainty.
- Children who come of age and have not gone through the puberty rite are liable to be forcibly seized to undergo the procedure.
- Joly came of age in the liberating turmoil of the 1960s in France, but her story was one of ambition rather than anarchy.
- The theme evokes the acute anxieties, those of the kids portrayed and those of the responsible adults, that attend coming of age.
- Many of the Chicano texts appropriate or written for young adults feature males coming of age.
- It is understood that the two young people are to marry as soon as Edwin comes of age, although this very understanding has been fatal to love between them.
- Adolescent boys and girls came of age by engaging in tribal rituals suited to their future adult roles.
- This is a ceremony which marks the coming of age for pubescent youngsters.
- Many human societies have tested young people coming of age with a quest or trial that tests the candidate's physical and mental skills and endurance.
- This ‘glorious, loving celebration’ follows young people as they come of age and prepare to enter the real world.
1. 1.1(of a movement or activity) become fully established.
  （运动，活动）完全确定，成熟
  space travel will then finally come of age
  太空旅行终将实现。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This exhibition simultaneously marks the coming of age of video art and honours Viola's status as a master of the medium.
  The Supreme Court Bill provides for New Zealand's final court of appeal to be located in New Zealand, and marks the coming of age of New Zealand's judicial system.
  I guess, finally, India is coming of age; at least the urban part of it, and given some time, rural India will also catch up.
  Yes, by all indications it appears sandboarding has finally come of age.
  For the movement which came of age in Seattle, the World Bank and the West Bank belong to the same political territory.
  Now the movement has come of age and deserves greater recognition.
  Socially responsible investing has finally come of age.
  After the birth pangs of the 1970s and 1980s, the gay movement had finally come of age, and I was proud to identify myself as a fully participating member of that community.
  Once a bastion for socialist thinking, the open source community is finally coming of age.
  The anti-globalisation movement has perhaps come of age - not on the streets of Seattle or London, but on the streets of Gaza, the West Bank and, soon, Baghdad.
  It will ensure that the judiciary comes of age and takes on responsibility for those features of the relationship that are critical to its future well-being.
  Or is this a sign that opinion polling in India is finally coming of age?
  This momentous shift has combined with the coming of age of human rights advocacy from the grass roots in Western countries.
  But they saw that book publishing had finally come of age in India, and they felt that a good review journal would serve to bring ‘book and reader together’.
  The new technology, coupled with more visionary architectural design, allowed America to finally come of age in the development of a distinctly American style.
  As evidenced from the undeniable success of tonight's event, the movement has come of age.
  A marginal movement has come of age, spawning a whole generation of human-rights advocates who are turning sex workers into a mainstream cause.
  Soyinka insists the day Africa is able to sort out its leadership vacuum is the day the continent will finally come of age.
  Science and technology came of age fully during WW I, when nations threw all their intellectual and productive energy at each other.
  The author suggests that by summer 1998 there had been a turning point, and a more confident Commission had come of age.

of an age

1Old enough to be able or expected to do something.
到了…的年龄
the sons are of an age to marry
儿子们到了结婚的年龄。
Example sentencesExamples
- You'd probably been up late on the phone with them, despite being of an age where should know better, talking all night like high school kids with their first crush.
- She was not of an age to have helped or even to have supported the Nazis, and therefore (if justice requires that each should get his desert) it was unjust that she should bear the guilty burden of the past.
- They are now of an age that exceeds the average life expectancy in the countries where they live.
- He said some members of staff may be of an age where they want to consider voluntary retirement, while others would be re-deployed and High Lawn would also consider how many extra staff will be needed.
- Usually I like getting a new phone - I'm of an age where there's still some nagging sense of wonder that I can pick out my own phone in the first place.
- My teenage daughters get the bus all the time, but I know that when they are of an age when they can drive, they will start to use the car because it's cheaper.
- Zoe is glad when they marry; she's of an age where she's dying to flee the family home but wants to see her mother settled first.
- Leaving aside that they are not yet of an age considered able to make mature decisions, many are driven into conflict by pressures beyond their control, usually economic in nature.
- And so I was of an age where I wasn't being hired as an actress.
- The VEC was starting in 2001 with the first of the retirees- ‘none of whom looked to be of an age when they should retire’ -.
- Two of the sons are now 18 and 17 years old, certainly of an age when they could be rounded up.
- Indeed, those parents of an age to have had to put up with the abuse, ranting, demonstrating, and phony political idealism of the sixties will at last be getting some kind of return from their children.
- Memorandum to the elderly (and by elderly I mean anyone who is of an age to fit in to the generational demographic known as ‘baby boomer’, or older).
- One afternoon when we were eight or nine, still of an age when curiosity can over-ride kindness, my friend John McGuinness and I spent longer than we should have done proving that his dog was word-deaf.
- Mary Boyd Higgens is the main person behind it, though she must be very advanced in years now, as she was alive and of an age advanced enough to be appointed trustee when Reich died in '57.
- For the Professor, there was a terrible urgency to the rallies, since he was of an age where he could have been forced into uniform and sent off to fight, and this made the chanting and the cheering for Dr. Jim's oratory so much more passionate.
- Of the 6 blokes I am 1 of only 2 who is not married and is still of an age where getting blind drunk and climbing on top of bus shelters is ‘a plan’.
- More intensive training and supervision is needed to prevent mentors from inadvertently role modeling RA behaviors, since they are still of an age where this dynamic can be an issue.
- The main problem is that we're dealing with people who are largely of an age when they're anti-establishment and don't like being told what to do.
- I have to add that there is a very large decline in the attendance of dances held in the village hall every Monday night and run by an excellent team of teachers, all because those attending now are of an age when they cannot continue to attend.
2(of two or more people or things) of a similar age.
（两者，多人，多物）年龄近似的
the children all seemed of an age
孩子们看起来差不多大。
Example sentencesExamples
- Though Kaumai was 'Aukele's nephew they were nearly of an age and surfed and boxed together.
- Bryan McFadden, of an age with me, has released a song called Irish Son.
- A well written story and something we, as we are of an age can understand where others cannot.
- The cousins were almost of an age, of much the same stature; but Olga had a pallid tint, tawny hair, and bluish eyes, whilst Irene's was a warm complexion, her hair of dark-brown, and her eyes of hazel.
- From my mid-30s to mid-40s, there were those who told me I looked just like Reba McEntire. We are of an age, and, at the time, I found it quite annoying.

through the ages

Throughout history.
自古至今，历史上
the influence of Greek culture through the ages
Example sentencesExamples
- As I picked my way through the grounds, I remembered two warnings that have been passed down to me through the ages.
- It is a film that tackles the big questions that have preoccupied all the great philosophers and thinkers down through the ages.
- Meanwhile visitors to the museum can go on a historic tour of food and drink through the ages, during this week's Festival of Food and Drink.
- Human beings are the same through the ages, and having studied ancient music, I can vouch for that.
- But like every development through the ages, chat-rooms have brought unwanted problems.
- This was more than just a ritual… it was a sign of respect, an old tradition that had been passed down through the ages.
- And that is where regulars and the drinking public at large will assemble tomorrow for a day of drinking, music and pub games through the ages.
- The two-hour show tells the story of Irish dance through the ages with live musicians, singers and dancers.
- That is the tragically horrifying history of religion through the ages.
- This is a rule that has being passed down through the ages.
- The founders observed that tyrannical rule and material scarcity had by and large been the fate of man through the ages.
- This is a delightful festive show, divided into old-time music hall and a selection of Christmas songs and literary works through the ages.
- So if you feel like dropping in and going back in time through the ages of military history, or just a day out with the family, a great day is guaranteed.
- Other items include a 1966 World Cup programme, football boots through the ages, medals and trophies.
- So, if art has to survive through the ages, it must be free, flexible and able to adapt itself to changing tastes.
- I see the belief in the power of love as being a continuity through the ages.
- Being great intellectuals, they pretend instead that their yuppie entertainments are as worthy as any art through the ages.
- Of particular interest were the rooms dating from 1600 to present day and the large display of china through the ages.
- His strong Christian beliefs were at the heart of his life, guiding and directing him on his journey through the ages.
- These images and signs not only represent man's creativity through the ages but also may help in writing new chapters of history.
- Jackie Leviston and Alison Gracey of the Lancashire Witch project will give a talk on the history of witch craft through the ages.
- It's a classic, the sort of conspiracy theory which has fooled gullible people through the ages.
- Music has existed through the ages and is indeed one the oldest languages of the world, spoken all over in different dialects.
- The book charts the history of the town through the ages and is illustrated with many pictures showing how it has changed over the years.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin aetas, aetat-, from aevum 'age, era'.

Rhymes

assuage, backstage, cage, downstage, engage, enrage, gage, gauge, mage, multistage, offstage, onstage, Osage, page, Paige, rage, rampage, sage, stage, swage, under-age, upstage, wage

Definition of age in US English:

age

nounājeɪdʒ

1The length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed.
年龄
he died from a heart attack at the age of 51
他51岁时死于心脏病。
he must be nearly 40 years of age
他肯定近40岁了。
his wife is the same age as Carla
他的妻子和尤娜同年。
young people between the ages of 11 and 18
11到18岁的年轻人。
Example sentencesExamples
- In all honesty, I don't have many relatives that have lived to ripe old ages apart from my maternal Grandfather.
- The girl was about fourteen years of age, shoulder length blonde hair and deep green eyes.
- Only McKinlay survived, living to the age of 95 when he died in Glasgow in 1983.
- Membership is open to girls between the ages of seven and ten.
- The children are of varying ages and live as any other family anywhere in the world does.
- Workers under 50 years of age can expect to live well into their eighties.
- The supervisors were from 33 to 47 years of age.
- Enthusiastic young people between the ages of 12 and 18 are invited to apply for the classes which take place on a two hour basis on Saturdays.
- She moved to 88 Park Row when she was one year of age, and lived there until she was married in 1984.
- On Tuesday next all children between the ages of 6 and 9 are invited to come along and take part.
- At seventeen years of age and a senior at High School in Boston he was outstanding.
- The club aims to provide entertainment for teenagers between the ages of 15 to 18 years in a fun and supervised environment.
- Imagine you're over 60 years of age and a squatter living in the largest slum in Kenya.
- There were 30 female students and 20 male students whose ages ranged from 9-10 years of age.
- Three hundred people of all ages attended a birthday service in York Minster.
- Dr Baig had many patients of varying ages who lived on their own and were suffering some form of depression, mainly from the lack of human interaction.
- For children, symptoms may be present between the ages of 2 to 4 years of age while presentation of symptoms occurs at start of school.
- None of us of this generation, I know, will be able to live up to the age of 126.
- Till the age of five she lived in Kollam, then Quilon, and left for New York with her parents in 1941.
- The servicemen recorded their age, rank, length of service, and marital status.
Synonyms
number of years, lifetime, duration, length of life
1. 1.1 A particular stage in someone's life.
  人生的特定阶段
  children of primary school age
  学龄儿童。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Of course, people of all ages and histories could be found among the fans.
  Currently arrangements are being made for admission to the local primary school for those of school going ages and hopefully free transport will be arranged.
  She has made many appearances on stage from a young age in local musicals - South Pacific and Annie.
  A large crowd, various ages and nationalities, circled a cement stage, writing messages with chalk provided.
  He found men with heart disease had lower levels of testosterone than men of similar age and character with normal coronary arteries.
  The stage will be open to all ages and types of acts.
  Astrella Celeste has been performing on stage with her father from a young age and in her own right.
  That is about 540,000 people of all ages, including the elderly, single mothers and children.
  The children are separated into several classes according to their ages before they are enrolled into primary school.
  We work with all ages of people from toddlers to the elderly, men and women, new people moving into the area to people who have lived here all their lives.
  It's high school students, the elderly, and all the ages in between.
  Four-fifths of primary school governor chairmen felt teenage pregnancy should start to be discussed at primary ages, although only three out of ten schools covered the topic at that stage.
  It's no use trying to get people of my age to change their behaviour - they're just not going to.
  Paddlers of all ages and abilities are now getting into the last stages of training for the gruelling 125-mile marathon that is the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race.
  They covered all ages, from primary school pupils to pensioners.
  Every British citizen, of every age, has the right to voice their opinions and be heard by decision-makers.
  Her classes are suitable for people of any age and ability.
  At one stage he decided to show his friends of his own age that he could fire an arrow.
  Taking seven kids at different ages and stages to Disney World all at once!
  He and his friend Tobias Seeger needed only a few seconds to name the three girls their age who still live in town.
  For seven years the organisation has offered information, advice and support to carers of all ages who help to look after elderly or disabled relatives and friends.
2. 1.2 The latter part of life or existence; old age.
  晚年，老年
  with age this gland can become sluggish
  随着年龄增大，这种腺可能变得迟缓起来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Like a good wine, road racer Ian continues to improve with age.
  These are delicate, feminine and subtle wines, which are designed to improve with age.
  These found that few people with age related macular degeneration experienced improved vision with surgery.
  The acting, unlike the cheese it so resembles, has not improved with age.
  Carlin, by the way, is a rock god, a true legend who just keeps getting better and better with age.
  No matter how much you looked after your body, with age mental and physical abilities start to deteriorate, no fault of your own.
  The drug agency suggested that implants might be like cars or tires, which wear out with age.
  I miss the way her hands felt, her skin so soft and loose with age, but always comforting.
  Do you simply have to wait for time to take its toll, for age to get him out of office?
  The aim here is to restore the hormones that decline with age to their youthful levels.
  If anything the sheer poignancy and compelling simplicity of this vision of our existence deepens with age.
  At one level, the grandmother urge seems just a natural element of the cycle of life, which you come to feel more sensitively with age.
  Most beers are brewed to be drunk immediately but a handful of brewers are now producing beers that are intended to improve with age.
  In fatal cases, advanced age has been found to be the most important risk factor.
  But he has always had depth, and like the wine in his cellar he improves with age.
  Moreover, age will not improve what was sub-standard to start with.
  Even the really basic stuff like why does red wine get better with age and white wine worse?
  The cup final was a clash of age and experience against youth and strong will.
  Like the best food and drink, hopefully it will improve with age.
  Although it is the case that on average these abilities will go down with age, some people within the groups stay the same or even get a bit better.
  If wisdom does come with age, I should be very, very wise by now - having aged a good decade in the last 24 hours.
  I hate to admit it at this late age, but it was the first time I saw the entire film.
  I suggest it's probably bad for your career to be too up-front about age because people are so stupid about it.
  Well, seminar after seminar makes the point that bad news doesn't get better with age.
  Give him his due though, his voice improves with age and Young is possibly one of the country's finest soul singers of the classic mould.
  The researchers found that neuroticism declined with age in women but did not change in men.
  It is the Rolls Royce of awards ceremonies and, unlike most winners' faces, has only improved with age.
  But the car shows its age with a distinct lack of storage space and frustratingly fiddly stereo controls.
  Solano has played in all but one Villa game so far this season and has lost none of his skill and crossing ability with age.
  We desperately need age, experience and character on the backbenches of our parliament.
  The best of the chateaux make outstanding wines that improve with age, in taste and often in value.
  Synonyms
  elderliness, old age, oldness, seniority, maturity, dotage, senility
2A distinct period of history.
年代，时代
an age of technological growth
技术发展的年代。
a child of the television age
电视时代的孩子。
Example sentencesExamples
- Raising the club's profile in this media-dominated age is of vital importance to club's like York City.
- Fraser claims to hate ‘the modern world’ and would doubtless prefer to have lived in the Victorian age.
- Thus perished one of the greatest statesmen of his age and of Dutch history.
- We live in an age in which laws, rules, regulations, charters, policies and practices intrude on every aspect of our lives.
- He would have been remarkable in any age, in the age in which he lived, he is utterly amazing.
- We face the Brown era in fiction and a dark age for popular history.
- In the age of television and the Internet, we are not returning to the preliterate, but descending into the postliterate.
- As any school text will tell you, this was primarily an age of invention and rapid material progress.
- We live, after all, in one of the most conformist ages in history - the age of reason as we like to call it.
- Human history can be divided into two distinct ages - the geocentric and the heliocentric.
- His writings are also a major source for the social history of his age.
- So what we see is not a story of the past, but today's stories set against the previous age or period.
- The civil liberties case against ID cards is a feeble one that belongs to a more innocent age.
- In the age of reality, television is increasingly the realm of the amateur.
- During the ages of history human nature has undergone no essential change.
- This is the age where the television performs the role of a baby-sitter, than a means of entertainment.
- We live in an age when attention deficit disorder is rife amongst adults and children alike and brevity is a prized quality.
- The relationship between Aubrey and Maturin doesn't need to be explained by reference to any of the various ages of history.
- Historical novels can introduce children to how people lived in other ages, even if told with contemporary sensibilities in mind.
- Indeed, I believe its popularity is an important feature of the intellectual history of the present age.
Synonyms
era, epoch, period, time, aeon, span
1. 2.1Geology A division of time that is a subdivision of an epoch, corresponding to a stage in chronostratigraphy.
  〔地质〕代
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, a range of volcanic ages from Lower Cambrian to Early Devonian is suggested on biostratrigraphic grounds.
  All other ages, epochs, and eras are represented by natural evolutionary and geological phenomena.
  It happened 252 million years ago, at the boundary of the Permian and Triassic geological ages.
  The bulk of the sediments on the outer margin are of Eocene to Oligocene age with thin units of younger sediments on top.
  However, there seems to be a marked age gap between the Cretaceous ages and onset of rifting in the Eocene.
2. 2.2archaic A lifetime taken as a measure of time; a generation.
  〈古〉一生；一（时）代
  Nestor is said to have lived three ages when he was ninety years old
  传说涅斯托耳到90岁时经历了三个时代。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Uz, the country of Job, was probably in the middle of Northern Arabia; and the statement of Eusebius, that he lived two ages before Moses, or about the time of Isaac, some 1800 B.C., is probably as correct as can now be ascertained.
  He has nowhere remarked, like those Fathers of the Church who lived several ages after him, that there are four Gospels of higher importance and estimation than any others
  Naiore had lived two ages and avoided capture by many.
  An ancient poet, one who lived several ages before Socrates, speaks more determinately on this subject.
  And this grandson succeeded in subduing and crushing his brother Jacob, so that after several ages and generations of men, this glorious and most dignified nation of "kings and priests" became despised by him.
3. 2.3ages/an ageBritish informal A very long time.
  〈非正式〉很长时间
  I haven't seen her for ages
  我很长时间没见她了。
  it would take an age to tell her everything
  Example sentencesExamples
  Finally after what seemed like ages we had our drinks and were sitting outside.
  I'm starting to slip back into my nocturnal, staying up very late self again because I was up ages the other night working on my Physics coursework.
  The French Connection hasn't been on television for ages.
  Some of the stage crew at Stratford who've been there for ages have said how my voice is just like my father's.
  I was reading WIRED for the first time in ages the other day, and found myself getting annoyed all over again at the breathless prose they use in their articles.
  The infirm and ill were beamed to safe havens ages ago.
  You wait ages for a television drama about what it's like to be fortysomething - wait until you're halfway through your 40s, in fact - and then four come along at once.
  I promise I won't write about television for ages.
  Synonyms
  a long time, a lifetime, an eternity, seemingly forever

verbājeɪdʒ

[no object]

1Grow old or older, especially visibly and obviously so.
（尤指显而易见地）年龄增长，变老
the tiredness we feel as we age
随着年龄增长我们感到的疲劳。
you haven't aged a lot
你没怎么变老。
Example sentencesExamples
- He has teamed with Paul Simon, one of the few rock - era songwriters to mature as he aged, for a double blast of complex musicianship and high harmony.
- As Florida's answer to punk rock closes in on a decade of making music, their fan base may be growing, but it doesn't seem to be aging.
- Events happen day to day, as the episodes are broadcast, and unwind slowly with the years, so that characters grow and age in real time.
- She wondered what he would look like if he had been allowed to age to twenty-five years.
- Paramilitary bosses were ageing and their members grown rich on cross-border smuggling, robbery and money laundering.
- I've been looking at some pictures of when I first came and I've aged an awful lot.
- The couple claimed that because the tiles had aged they would no longer match and the whole lot should be replaced.
- Her cat is slowly aging and requires a lot of care.
- Shanghai has seen its population ageing for the past two decades, with senior residents now accounting for over 18 per cent of its population.
- If one is fortunate enough to be associated with a university, even as one ages, teaching allows one to contribute to, and vicariously share, in the creativity of youth.
- He aged and became senile, but no batter how shrunken his body became, he remained alive.
- As their home countries' economies grow and populations age, these flows are likely to get smaller.
- The objective was meant to prepare senior citizens to age gracefully and live a meaningful life.
- Now, Paterson is slight, but he is fast, he is willing, he is clever, and he is only going to get better and better as his rugby career, and his waist and chest and thighs, grow as he ages and matures.
- What happens as she ages and her voice grows out of the girlishness it can't get away from, deepens into a woman's voice expressing a woman's soul.
- Populations are aging and the need for an augmented labour force is growing.
- A lot of the content hasn't aged especially well in the past few decades, and much of the humor is still aimed at 10-year-olds.
- As he aged, Kantanos had grown more accustomed to his way of life, had accepted it.
- As my mother aged she grew more and more scattered and frustrating in a number of ways.
- And you will age in the same neighbourhoods; and you will grow grey in these same houses.
- Although we cannot stop aging, we can certainly stop growing old.
- Access to advanced medical devices is key to ensuring that the nation's healthcare system keeps pace with a population that is growing and aging.
- Ng said Hong Kong's population was ageing and the government's medical expenditure would continue to grow.
- You have Baby Boomers aging, a lot of them tremendous health care bills.
- I think they've aged in a lot of ways, but I don't think their essential character has changed.
- We are all going to age, but why allow ourselves to age faster than need be?
1. 1.1with object Cause to grow, feel, or appear older.
  使长大，使显老，变老
  he even tried aging the painting with a spoonful of coffee
  他甚至试着用一勺咖啡来让画看起来古旧。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dark lipstick ages you, it's true, but when you are 20 you want to look older than your age.
  She's a young woman and I didn't want to get her something that would age her, so I went with the single pearl.
  Movie magic had aged the paint and metal to make it look antique.
  Mrs. G. said that it was the sudden losses, not the passing years, that had aged her unexpectedly.
  And, having become a specialist in prosthetics, he was responsible for ageing Damian Lewis in the recent re-make of The Forsyte Saga.
  I'm not a feudal vassal, thank God, as all that toiling in the fields ages one horribly.
  I wished that I had aged the paper first by soaking in tea, as I usually do.
  As for domesticity, it ages one rapidly, and distracts one's mind from higher things.
  It was plenty warm outside, but the shawl would age her appearance even more.
2. 1.2 (especially with reference to an alcoholic drink) mature or allow to mature.
  （尤指酒精饮料）变得陈香；使醇香
  no object the wine ages in open vats or casks
  葡萄酒在敞口的大木桶中变得陈香。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For if you allow these beauties to age, even if only for a minute, they will lose their sharpness, their appeal and their zest.
  We bought six bottles then and they have been aging nicely and drinking excellently now.
  While this may sound rather unpleasant, it is the tannin which provides the structure of red wines and allows them to age and mature.
  Spirit labelled ‘brandy’ must be distilled from wine made from the fermentation of grapes and by law has to be aged for a minimum of three years in oak barrels.
  Time flew, and before long, those good-value wines aged and became almost too good to drink - was there ever an occasion important enough?
  Quality Vouvray, either dry or sweet, demands to be aged.
  The wine will age, our anger with France will pass, and we'll buy that Burgundy in a few years.
  Of course, now comes the hard part, the one in which you have to wait and let the jars rest, allowing them to age on a shelf in the cool cellar.
  The taste is unique with a charcoal mellowed flavour that contains influences from the barrel it was aged in with hints of caramel, vanilla, and oak.
  For three years the wine is aged in new barrels made of hand-split oak staves.
  If good wines need time to age properly, the same could said of speeches.
  The merchants then aged the wine, bottled and sold it around the world often featuring the merchant's name prominently.
  Firstly, for a €13 bottle, this was compelling wine that aged and evolved very interestingly over four or five years.
  The wine is aged for 3 years, with at least two years in oak barrels before release.
  Madeira is the only wine in the world where heat is deliberately applied to age the wine artificially.
  The culturing process continues as the mild cheddar is allowed to age for about two months.
  Cheeses age at different rates and must be held at constant temperatures to achieve their optimum flavour.
  The big question, therefore, particularly given the lack of acidity, is whether these wines will age well.
  It's best to have one that's made with the same material that your wine is aged in.
  And raw-milk cheeses aged more than 60 days are not risk-free either.
  Synonyms
  mature, ripen, mellow, become mellow, make mellow, season, condition, soften, sweeten, grow up, come of age
3. 1.3with object Determine how old (something) is.
  决定（某物）的年龄
  we didn't have a clue how to age these animals
  我们无从知晓这些动物的年龄。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Cubs were aged when they were first seen, when their age could be estimated to within an accuracy of 1 month.
  Birds were aged according to a regression equation for age on the length of the wing for storks.
  All captured birds were aged (young of the year or adult), sexed, and marked.
  The fish are aged by identifying and counting the number of annulus found on a fish scale.
  Timed embryos were aged more specifically by morphology.

Phrases

act (or be) one's age

usually in imperativeBehave in a manner appropriate to someone of one's age and not to someone much younger.
行为与年龄相称
“Act your age” is not advice to behave like an adolescent
Example sentencesExamples
- I can now rely on a regular commentary on their allowance, my manipulation of their weekend schedules to give me time to put my feet up and my failure to act my age when talking to their friends.
- The rapper is 16 years old and ready to start acting his age.
- I would have to change my ways completely, I'd have to grow up, act my age, be responsible and actually have a go at making a relationship work.
- Since the theme of the week is apparently not knowing how to act one's age…
- What happens when the football stops, when those 35-year-old legs give up the pretence and start acting their age?
- So he stands supreme in terms of a sportsman not acting his age.
- And no, this is one actress who doesn't change the subject when you ask her age and, yes, she's comfortable with ‘acting her age’, never mind that she had been a heart-throb when she left the industry.
- Just because we can steer the car with our beer bellies these days, it doesn't mean that we have to act our age.
- Ah, with that cute smile one can only hope that she grows up to be a good person, still acts her age and does not become the typical self-conscious Indonesian celebrity.
- I won't grow up, I won't slow down, I won't act my age.
- This year something remarkable has happened in Hollywood: women are everywhere, playing the best parts, even acting their age.
- What makes the whole thing work on a deeper level is that Curtis not only acts her age but shows it.
- It's become apparent in recent years that 40 is the new 30, that 50 is the new 40, that no one wants to act their age.
- ‘But I have never felt or acted my age, and I didn't want to start now,’ Heather says.
- Just for You is more sedate in tone, and both stars are playing more mature characters - indeed, since Bing has a teenaged son in this movie, it's appropriate for him to act his age a little more.
- They no longer feel that they have to act their age, but have released themselves to no longer worry ‘What will people think?’
- It's here that she realizes that shutting out love won't bring back her mother, and that she really does need to start acting her age.
- They actually acted their age… Most of the time, when we're out for dinner, they tend to poke and prod at each other, clown around etc, I'm sure they do it to wind me up.
- Yes - this winter showed me that I'm not a youngster any more - even if I still don't act my age!
- You know what happens when you don't let kids loose, when you take away their right to act their age or be better than someone else at something or be able to win, place or show?
- People say act your age, but what is that supposed to mean?

come of age

1(of a person) reach adult status.
Example sentencesExamples
- Young people mark their coming of age in different ceremonies or initiations.
- These people are the adults of tomorrow and are coming of age.
- Adolescent boys and girls came of age by engaging in tribal rituals suited to their future adult roles.
- This is a ceremony which marks the coming of age for pubescent youngsters.
- They shared the overriding objective of preserving for the time he came of age the inheritances won by his grandfather and father in England and France.
- The key to Hong Kong's emergence was its status as a free port at the edge of China, but the emergence of a national identity dates to the early 1970s, when a generation of young people born and raised in Hong Kong came of age.
- For young people coming of age now I think it's particularly sad, because I feel like I had it just 10 years ago.
- Many of the Chicano texts appropriate or written for young adults feature males coming of age.
- Young people coming of age imbibed this political atmosphere, for the most part unconsciously.
- It is understood that the two young people are to marry as soon as Edwin comes of age, although this very understanding has been fatal to love between them.
- Joly came of age in the liberating turmoil of the 1960s in France, but her story was one of ambition rather than anarchy.
- The theme evokes the acute anxieties, those of the kids portrayed and those of the responsible adults, that attend coming of age.
- He faced the prospect of losing his position, and might be motivated to ensure his long-term power and status beyond the point of the rightful monarch coming of age.
- Many of these are young people who had not yet come of age at the time of the previous elections.
- Adolescent Development and Rapid Social Change addresses the psychological consequences for these young people who came of age during a time of such uncertainty.
- Many human societies have tested young people coming of age with a quest or trial that tests the candidate's physical and mental skills and endurance.
- Teens and young adults will come of age taking the Internet for granted, as their parents did television, as their grandparents did telephones.
- This ‘glorious, loving celebration’ follows young people as they come of age and prepare to enter the real world.
- Children who come of age and have not gone through the puberty rite are liable to be forcibly seized to undergo the procedure.
1. 1.1(of a movement or activity) become fully established.
  （运动，活动）完全确定，成熟
  space travel will then finally come of age
  太空旅行终将实现。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Socially responsible investing has finally come of age.
  Science and technology came of age fully during WW I, when nations threw all their intellectual and productive energy at each other.
  For the movement which came of age in Seattle, the World Bank and the West Bank belong to the same political territory.
  Or is this a sign that opinion polling in India is finally coming of age?
  A marginal movement has come of age, spawning a whole generation of human-rights advocates who are turning sex workers into a mainstream cause.
  The anti-globalisation movement has perhaps come of age - not on the streets of Seattle or London, but on the streets of Gaza, the West Bank and, soon, Baghdad.
  As evidenced from the undeniable success of tonight's event, the movement has come of age.
  This exhibition simultaneously marks the coming of age of video art and honours Viola's status as a master of the medium.
  I guess, finally, India is coming of age; at least the urban part of it, and given some time, rural India will also catch up.
  But they saw that book publishing had finally come of age in India, and they felt that a good review journal would serve to bring ‘book and reader together’.
  The new technology, coupled with more visionary architectural design, allowed America to finally come of age in the development of a distinctly American style.
  Yes, by all indications it appears sandboarding has finally come of age.
  This momentous shift has combined with the coming of age of human rights advocacy from the grass roots in Western countries.
  Now the movement has come of age and deserves greater recognition.
  After the birth pangs of the 1970s and 1980s, the gay movement had finally come of age, and I was proud to identify myself as a fully participating member of that community.
  The author suggests that by summer 1998 there had been a turning point, and a more confident Commission had come of age.
  Soyinka insists the day Africa is able to sort out its leadership vacuum is the day the continent will finally come of age.
  Once a bastion for socialist thinking, the open source community is finally coming of age.
  It will ensure that the judiciary comes of age and takes on responsibility for those features of the relationship that are critical to its future well-being.
  The Supreme Court Bill provides for New Zealand's final court of appeal to be located in New Zealand, and marks the coming of age of New Zealand's judicial system.

of an age

1Old enough to be able or expected to do something.
到了…的年龄
the sons are of an age to marry
儿子们到了结婚的年龄。
Example sentencesExamples
- They are now of an age that exceeds the average life expectancy in the countries where they live.
- Memorandum to the elderly (and by elderly I mean anyone who is of an age to fit in to the generational demographic known as ‘baby boomer’, or older).
- Indeed, those parents of an age to have had to put up with the abuse, ranting, demonstrating, and phony political idealism of the sixties will at last be getting some kind of return from their children.
- He said some members of staff may be of an age where they want to consider voluntary retirement, while others would be re-deployed and High Lawn would also consider how many extra staff will be needed.
- And so I was of an age where I wasn't being hired as an actress.
- For the Professor, there was a terrible urgency to the rallies, since he was of an age where he could have been forced into uniform and sent off to fight, and this made the chanting and the cheering for Dr. Jim's oratory so much more passionate.
- My teenage daughters get the bus all the time, but I know that when they are of an age when they can drive, they will start to use the car because it's cheaper.
- She was not of an age to have helped or even to have supported the Nazis, and therefore (if justice requires that each should get his desert) it was unjust that she should bear the guilty burden of the past.
- Mary Boyd Higgens is the main person behind it, though she must be very advanced in years now, as she was alive and of an age advanced enough to be appointed trustee when Reich died in '57.
- I have to add that there is a very large decline in the attendance of dances held in the village hall every Monday night and run by an excellent team of teachers, all because those attending now are of an age when they cannot continue to attend.
- You'd probably been up late on the phone with them, despite being of an age where should know better, talking all night like high school kids with their first crush.
- The main problem is that we're dealing with people who are largely of an age when they're anti-establishment and don't like being told what to do.
- More intensive training and supervision is needed to prevent mentors from inadvertently role modeling RA behaviors, since they are still of an age where this dynamic can be an issue.
- Zoe is glad when they marry; she's of an age where she's dying to flee the family home but wants to see her mother settled first.
- One afternoon when we were eight or nine, still of an age when curiosity can over-ride kindness, my friend John McGuinness and I spent longer than we should have done proving that his dog was word-deaf.
- Two of the sons are now 18 and 17 years old, certainly of an age when they could be rounded up.
- Usually I like getting a new phone - I'm of an age where there's still some nagging sense of wonder that I can pick out my own phone in the first place.
- Leaving aside that they are not yet of an age considered able to make mature decisions, many are driven into conflict by pressures beyond their control, usually economic in nature.
- Of the 6 blokes I am 1 of only 2 who is not married and is still of an age where getting blind drunk and climbing on top of bus shelters is ‘a plan’.
- The VEC was starting in 2001 with the first of the retirees- ‘none of whom looked to be of an age when they should retire’ -.
2(of two or more people or things) of a similar age.
（两者，多人，多物）年龄近似的
the children all seemed of an age
孩子们看起来差不多大。
Example sentencesExamples
- The cousins were almost of an age, of much the same stature; but Olga had a pallid tint, tawny hair, and bluish eyes, whilst Irene's was a warm complexion, her hair of dark-brown, and her eyes of hazel.
- A well written story and something we, as we are of an age can understand where others cannot.
- Though Kaumai was 'Aukele's nephew they were nearly of an age and surfed and boxed together.
- Bryan McFadden, of an age with me, has released a song called Irish Son.
- From my mid-30s to mid-40s, there were those who told me I looked just like Reba McEntire. We are of an age, and, at the time, I found it quite annoying.

through the ages

Throughout history.
自古至今，历史上
Example sentencesExamples
- As I picked my way through the grounds, I remembered two warnings that have been passed down to me through the ages.
- So, if art has to survive through the ages, it must be free, flexible and able to adapt itself to changing tastes.
- Being great intellectuals, they pretend instead that their yuppie entertainments are as worthy as any art through the ages.
- The two-hour show tells the story of Irish dance through the ages with live musicians, singers and dancers.
- Human beings are the same through the ages, and having studied ancient music, I can vouch for that.
- This was more than just a ritual… it was a sign of respect, an old tradition that had been passed down through the ages.
- This is a delightful festive show, divided into old-time music hall and a selection of Christmas songs and literary works through the ages.
- Jackie Leviston and Alison Gracey of the Lancashire Witch project will give a talk on the history of witch craft through the ages.
- The founders observed that tyrannical rule and material scarcity had by and large been the fate of man through the ages.
- Other items include a 1966 World Cup programme, football boots through the ages, medals and trophies.
- Meanwhile visitors to the museum can go on a historic tour of food and drink through the ages, during this week's Festival of Food and Drink.
- The book charts the history of the town through the ages and is illustrated with many pictures showing how it has changed over the years.
- Music has existed through the ages and is indeed one the oldest languages of the world, spoken all over in different dialects.
- I see the belief in the power of love as being a continuity through the ages.
- It is a film that tackles the big questions that have preoccupied all the great philosophers and thinkers down through the ages.
- These images and signs not only represent man's creativity through the ages but also may help in writing new chapters of history.
- His strong Christian beliefs were at the heart of his life, guiding and directing him on his journey through the ages.
- So if you feel like dropping in and going back in time through the ages of military history, or just a day out with the family, a great day is guaranteed.
- It's a classic, the sort of conspiracy theory which has fooled gullible people through the ages.
- That is the tragically horrifying history of religion through the ages.
- And that is where regulars and the drinking public at large will assemble tomorrow for a day of drinking, music and pub games through the ages.
- Of particular interest were the rooms dating from 1600 to present day and the large display of china through the ages.
- This is a rule that has being passed down through the ages.
- But like every development through the ages, chat-rooms have brought unwanted problems.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin aetas, aetat-, from aevum ‘age, era’.

词汇	age
释义	Definition of age in English: age nounPlural ages eɪdʒeɪdʒ 1The length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed. 年龄 he died from a heart attack at the age of 51 他51岁时死于心脏病。 he must be nearly 40 years of age 他肯定近40岁了。 Example sentencesExamples Till the age of five she lived in Kollam, then Quilon, and left for New York with her parents in 1941. There were 30 female students and 20 male students whose ages ranged from 9-10 years of age. Three hundred people of all ages attended a birthday service in York Minster. The club aims to provide entertainment for teenagers between the ages of 15 to 18 years in a fun and supervised environment. Only McKinlay survived, living to the age of 95 when he died in Glasgow in 1983. Dr Baig had many patients of varying ages who lived on their own and were suffering some form of depression, mainly from the lack of human interaction. The children are of varying ages and live as any other family anywhere in the world does. The girl was about fourteen years of age, shoulder length blonde hair and deep green eyes. At seventeen years of age and a senior at High School in Boston he was outstanding. The servicemen recorded their age, rank, length of service, and marital status. For children, symptoms may be present between the ages of 2 to 4 years of age while presentation of symptoms occurs at start of school. Workers under 50 years of age can expect to live well into their eighties. She moved to 88 Park Row when she was one year of age, and lived there until she was married in 1984. Membership is open to girls between the ages of seven and ten. None of us of this generation, I know, will be able to live up to the age of 126. Enthusiastic young people between the ages of 12 and 18 are invited to apply for the classes which take place on a two hour basis on Saturdays. On Tuesday next all children between the ages of 6 and 9 are invited to come along and take part. Imagine you're over 60 years of age and a squatter living in the largest slum in Kenya. In all honesty, I don't have many relatives that have lived to ripe old ages apart from my maternal Grandfather. The supervisors were from 33 to 47 years of age. Synonyms number of years, lifetime, duration, length of life stage of life, generation, age group, peer group years, summers, winters 1.1 A particular stage in someone's life. 人生的特定阶段 children of primary school age 学龄儿童。 Example sentencesExamples She has made many appearances on stage from a young age in local musicals - South Pacific and Annie. It's high school students, the elderly, and all the ages in between. We work with all ages of people from toddlers to the elderly, men and women, new people moving into the area to people who have lived here all their lives. That is about 540,000 people of all ages, including the elderly, single mothers and children. The children are separated into several classes according to their ages before they are enrolled into primary school. Taking seven kids at different ages and stages to Disney World all at once! Of course, people of all ages and histories could be found among the fans. Every British citizen, of every age, has the right to voice their opinions and be heard by decision-makers. At one stage he decided to show his friends of his own age that he could fire an arrow. They covered all ages, from primary school pupils to pensioners. Four-fifths of primary school governor chairmen felt teenage pregnancy should start to be discussed at primary ages, although only three out of ten schools covered the topic at that stage. Astrella Celeste has been performing on stage with her father from a young age and in her own right. It's no use trying to get people of my age to change their behaviour - they're just not going to. A large crowd, various ages and nationalities, circled a cement stage, writing messages with chalk provided. He and his friend Tobias Seeger needed only a few seconds to name the three girls their age who still live in town. For seven years the organisation has offered information, advice and support to carers of all ages who help to look after elderly or disabled relatives and friends. Paddlers of all ages and abilities are now getting into the last stages of training for the gruelling 125-mile marathon that is the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race. The stage will be open to all ages and types of acts. Currently arrangements are being made for admission to the local primary school for those of school going ages and hopefully free transport will be arranged. Her classes are suitable for people of any age and ability. He found men with heart disease had lower levels of testosterone than men of similar age and character with normal coronary arteries. 1.2mass noun The state of being old. fine wine improves with age Example sentencesExamples The cup final was a clash of age and experience against youth and strong will. Like the best food and drink, hopefully it will improve with age. The best of the chateaux make outstanding wines that improve with age, in taste and often in value. Like a good wine, road racer Ian continues to improve with age. But the car shows its age with a distinct lack of storage space and frustratingly fiddly stereo controls. It is the Rolls Royce of awards ceremonies and, unlike most winners' faces, has only improved with age. The aim here is to restore the hormones that decline with age to their youthful levels. Give him his due though, his voice improves with age and Young is possibly one of the country's finest soul singers of the classic mould. At one level, the grandmother urge seems just a natural element of the cycle of life, which you come to feel more sensitively with age. Most beers are brewed to be drunk immediately but a handful of brewers are now producing beers that are intended to improve with age. The drug agency suggested that implants might be like cars or tires, which wear out with age. The acting, unlike the cheese it so resembles, has not improved with age. The researchers found that neuroticism declined with age in women but did not change in men. Solano has played in all but one Villa game so far this season and has lost none of his skill and crossing ability with age. Carlin, by the way, is a rock god, a true legend who just keeps getting better and better with age. Moreover, age will not improve what was sub-standard to start with. But he has always had depth, and like the wine in his cellar he improves with age. Do you simply have to wait for time to take its toll, for age to get him out of office? Well, seminar after seminar makes the point that bad news doesn't get better with age. No matter how much you looked after your body, with age mental and physical abilities start to deteriorate, no fault of your own. If anything the sheer poignancy and compelling simplicity of this vision of our existence deepens with age. We desperately need age, experience and character on the backbenches of our parliament. I hate to admit it at this late age, but it was the first time I saw the entire film. If wisdom does come with age, I should be very, very wise by now - having aged a good decade in the last 24 hours. Although it is the case that on average these abilities will go down with age, some people within the groups stay the same or even get a bit better. Even the really basic stuff like why does red wine get better with age and white wine worse? I miss the way her hands felt, her skin so soft and loose with age, but always comforting. These found that few people with age related macular degeneration experienced improved vision with surgery. In fatal cases, advanced age has been found to be the most important risk factor. I suggest it's probably bad for your career to be too up-front about age because people are so stupid about it. These are delicate, feminine and subtle wines, which are designed to improve with age. Synonyms elderliness, old age, oldness, seniority, maturity, dotage, senility one's advancing/advanced years, one's declining years, the winter/autumn of one's life formal senescence archaic eld rare caducity 2A distinct period of history. 年代，时代 an age of technological growth 技术发展的年代。 Example sentencesExamples So what we see is not a story of the past, but today's stories set against the previous age or period. In the age of reality, television is increasingly the realm of the amateur. We live in an age in which laws, rules, regulations, charters, policies and practices intrude on every aspect of our lives. The civil liberties case against ID cards is a feeble one that belongs to a more innocent age. Fraser claims to hate ‘the modern world’ and would doubtless prefer to have lived in the Victorian age. Historical novels can introduce children to how people lived in other ages, even if told with contemporary sensibilities in mind. His writings are also a major source for the social history of his age. Indeed, I believe its popularity is an important feature of the intellectual history of the present age. This is the age where the television performs the role of a baby-sitter, than a means of entertainment. We face the Brown era in fiction and a dark age for popular history. We live, after all, in one of the most conformist ages in history - the age of reason as we like to call it. The relationship between Aubrey and Maturin doesn't need to be explained by reference to any of the various ages of history. As any school text will tell you, this was primarily an age of invention and rapid material progress. Raising the club's profile in this media-dominated age is of vital importance to club's like York City. Thus perished one of the greatest statesmen of his age and of Dutch history. We live in an age when attention deficit disorder is rife amongst adults and children alike and brevity is a prized quality. Human history can be divided into two distinct ages - the geocentric and the heliocentric. In the age of television and the Internet, we are not returning to the preliterate, but descending into the postliterate. He would have been remarkable in any age, in the age in which he lived, he is utterly amazing. During the ages of history human nature has undergone no essential change. Synonyms era, epoch, period, time, aeon, span 2.1Geology A division of time that is a subdivision of an epoch, corresponding to a stage in chronostratigraphy. 〔地质〕代 Example sentencesExamples However, there seems to be a marked age gap between the Cretaceous ages and onset of rifting in the Eocene. The bulk of the sediments on the outer margin are of Eocene to Oligocene age with thin units of younger sediments on top. It happened 252 million years ago, at the boundary of the Permian and Triassic geological ages. However, a range of volcanic ages from Lower Cambrian to Early Devonian is suggested on biostratrigraphic grounds. All other ages, epochs, and eras are represented by natural evolutionary and geological phenomena. 2.2ages/an ageBritish informal A very long time. 〈非正式〉很长时间 I haven't seen her for ages 我很长时间没见她了。 Example sentencesExamples I promise I won't write about television for ages. The French Connection hasn't been on television for ages. I was reading WIRED for the first time in ages the other day, and found myself getting annoyed all over again at the breathless prose they use in their articles. You wait ages for a television drama about what it's like to be fortysomething - wait until you're halfway through your 40s, in fact - and then four come along at once. I'm starting to slip back into my nocturnal, staying up very late self again because I was up ages the other night working on my Physics coursework. Some of the stage crew at Stratford who've been there for ages have said how my voice is just like my father's. Finally after what seemed like ages we had our drinks and were sitting outside. The infirm and ill were beamed to safe havens ages ago. Synonyms a long time, a lifetime, an eternity, seemingly forever hours, days, months, years, aeons, hours/days/months on end, ages and ages, a month of Sundays British informal yonks, donkey's years North American informal, dated a coon's age verbages, aged, ageing, aging eɪdʒeɪdʒ [no object] 1Grow old or older. the tiredness we feel as we age 随着年龄增长我们感到的疲劳。 Example sentencesExamples A lot of the content hasn't aged especially well in the past few decades, and much of the humor is still aimed at 10-year-olds. What happens as she ages and her voice grows out of the girlishness it can't get away from, deepens into a woman's voice expressing a woman's soul. Shanghai has seen its population ageing for the past two decades, with senior residents now accounting for over 18 per cent of its population. The objective was meant to prepare senior citizens to age gracefully and live a meaningful life. He aged and became senile, but no batter how shrunken his body became, he remained alive. We are all going to age, but why allow ourselves to age faster than need be? The couple claimed that because the tiles had aged they would no longer match and the whole lot should be replaced. Events happen day to day, as the episodes are broadcast, and unwind slowly with the years, so that characters grow and age in real time. And you will age in the same neighbourhoods; and you will grow grey in these same houses. As Florida's answer to punk rock closes in on a decade of making music, their fan base may be growing, but it doesn't seem to be aging. He has teamed with Paul Simon, one of the few rock - era songwriters to mature as he aged, for a double blast of complex musicianship and high harmony. As my mother aged she grew more and more scattered and frustrating in a number of ways. As their home countries' economies grow and populations age, these flows are likely to get smaller. Paramilitary bosses were ageing and their members grown rich on cross-border smuggling, robbery and money laundering. Although we cannot stop aging, we can certainly stop growing old. I think they've aged in a lot of ways, but I don't think their essential character has changed. Ng said Hong Kong's population was ageing and the government's medical expenditure would continue to grow. I've been looking at some pictures of when I first came and I've aged an awful lot. As he aged, Kantanos had grown more accustomed to his way of life, had accepted it. Access to advanced medical devices is key to ensuring that the nation's healthcare system keeps pace with a population that is growing and aging. She wondered what he would look like if he had been allowed to age to twenty-five years. You have Baby Boomers aging, a lot of them tremendous health care bills. If one is fortunate enough to be associated with a university, even as one ages, teaching allows one to contribute to, and vicariously share, in the creativity of youth. Her cat is slowly aging and requires a lot of care. Populations are aging and the need for an augmented labour force is growing. Now, Paterson is slight, but he is fast, he is willing, he is clever, and he is only going to get better and better as his rugby career, and his waist and chest and thighs, grow as he ages and matures. 1.1with object Cause to appear old or older. he even tried ageing the painting with a spoonful of coffee 他甚至试着用一勺咖啡来让画看起来古旧。 Example sentencesExamples I'm not a feudal vassal, thank God, as all that toiling in the fields ages one horribly. And, having become a specialist in prosthetics, he was responsible for ageing Damian Lewis in the recent re-make of The Forsyte Saga. I wished that I had aged the paper first by soaking in tea, as I usually do. Movie magic had aged the paint and metal to make it look antique. She's a young woman and I didn't want to get her something that would age her, so I went with the single pearl. Mrs. G. said that it was the sudden losses, not the passing years, that had aged her unexpectedly. As for domesticity, it ages one rapidly, and distracts one's mind from higher things. Dark lipstick ages you, it's true, but when you are 20 you want to look older than your age. It was plenty warm outside, but the shawl would age her appearance even more. 1.2 (with reference to an alcoholic drink, cheese, etc.) mature or allow to mature. （尤指酒精饮料）变得陈香；使醇香 no object the wine ages in open vats or casks 葡萄酒在敞口的大木桶中变得陈香。 with object a cheese that has been aged for four months Example sentencesExamples And raw-milk cheeses aged more than 60 days are not risk-free either. Spirit labelled ‘brandy’ must be distilled from wine made from the fermentation of grapes and by law has to be aged for a minimum of three years in oak barrels. The taste is unique with a charcoal mellowed flavour that contains influences from the barrel it was aged in with hints of caramel, vanilla, and oak. It's best to have one that's made with the same material that your wine is aged in. If good wines need time to age properly, the same could said of speeches. The culturing process continues as the mild cheddar is allowed to age for about two months. The big question, therefore, particularly given the lack of acidity, is whether these wines will age well. Cheeses age at different rates and must be held at constant temperatures to achieve their optimum flavour. For three years the wine is aged in new barrels made of hand-split oak staves. The merchants then aged the wine, bottled and sold it around the world often featuring the merchant's name prominently. The wine is aged for 3 years, with at least two years in oak barrels before release. Of course, now comes the hard part, the one in which you have to wait and let the jars rest, allowing them to age on a shelf in the cool cellar. Quality Vouvray, either dry or sweet, demands to be aged. Time flew, and before long, those good-value wines aged and became almost too good to drink - was there ever an occasion important enough? Firstly, for a €13 bottle, this was compelling wine that aged and evolved very interestingly over four or five years. For if you allow these beauties to age, even if only for a minute, they will lose their sharpness, their appeal and their zest. The wine will age, our anger with France will pass, and we'll buy that Burgundy in a few years. While this may sound rather unpleasant, it is the tannin which provides the structure of red wines and allows them to age and mature. Madeira is the only wine in the world where heat is deliberately applied to age the wine artificially. We bought six bottles then and they have been aging nicely and drinking excellently now. Synonyms mature, ripen, mellow, become/make mellow, season, condition, soften, sweeten, grow up, come of age grow/become/make old, weather, (cause to) decline, wither, fade 1.3with object Determine how old (something) is. 决定（某物）的年龄 we didn't have a clue how to age these animals 我们无从知晓这些动物的年龄。 Example sentencesExamples Birds were aged according to a regression equation for age on the length of the wing for storks. All captured birds were aged (young of the year or adult), sexed, and marked. The fish are aged by identifying and counting the number of annulus found on a fish scale. Timed embryos were aged more specifically by morphology. Cubs were aged when they were first seen, when their age could be estimated to within an accuracy of 1 month. Phrases act (or be) one's age usually in imperativeBehave in a manner appropriate to someone of one's age and not to someone younger. 行为与年龄相称 Example sentencesExamples It's become apparent in recent years that 40 is the new 30, that 50 is the new 40, that no one wants to act their age. Since the theme of the week is apparently not knowing how to act one's age… This year something remarkable has happened in Hollywood: women are everywhere, playing the best parts, even acting their age. The rapper is 16 years old and ready to start acting his age. I won't grow up, I won't slow down, I won't act my age. Yes - this winter showed me that I'm not a youngster any more - even if I still don't act my age! It's here that she realizes that shutting out love won't bring back her mother, and that she really does need to start acting her age. I would have to change my ways completely, I'd have to grow up, act my age, be responsible and actually have a go at making a relationship work. And no, this is one actress who doesn't change the subject when you ask her age and, yes, she's comfortable with ‘acting her age’, never mind that she had been a heart-throb when she left the industry. You know what happens when you don't let kids loose, when you take away their right to act their age or be better than someone else at something or be able to win, place or show? What makes the whole thing work on a deeper level is that Curtis not only acts her age but shows it. They actually acted their age… Most of the time, when we're out for dinner, they tend to poke and prod at each other, clown around etc, I'm sure they do it to wind me up. ‘But I have never felt or acted my age, and I didn't want to start now,’ Heather says. They no longer feel that they have to act their age, but have released themselves to no longer worry ‘What will people think?’ Just for You is more sedate in tone, and both stars are playing more mature characters - indeed, since Bing has a teenaged son in this movie, it's appropriate for him to act his age a little more. What happens when the football stops, when those 35-year-old legs give up the pretence and start acting their age? I can now rely on a regular commentary on their allowance, my manipulation of their weekend schedules to give me time to put my feet up and my failure to act my age when talking to their friends. Just because we can steer the car with our beer bellies these days, it doesn't mean that we have to act our age. People say act your age, but what is that supposed to mean? Ah, with that cute smile one can only hope that she grows up to be a good person, still acts her age and does not become the typical self-conscious Indonesian celebrity. So he stands supreme in terms of a sportsman not acting his age. come of age 1Reach adult status (in UK law at 18, formerly 21). （人）成年（英国法律现规定18岁成年，原为21岁） Example sentencesExamples Young people mark their coming of age in different ceremonies or initiations. Many of these are young people who had not yet come of age at the time of the previous elections. The key to Hong Kong's emergence was its status as a free port at the edge of China, but the emergence of a national identity dates to the early 1970s, when a generation of young people born and raised in Hong Kong came of age. Teens and young adults will come of age taking the Internet for granted, as their parents did television, as their grandparents did telephones. They shared the overriding objective of preserving for the time he came of age the inheritances won by his grandfather and father in England and France. He faced the prospect of losing his position, and might be motivated to ensure his long-term power and status beyond the point of the rightful monarch coming of age. These people are the adults of tomorrow and are coming of age. For young people coming of age now I think it's particularly sad, because I feel like I had it just 10 years ago. Young people coming of age imbibed this political atmosphere, for the most part unconsciously. Adolescent Development and Rapid Social Change addresses the psychological consequences for these young people who came of age during a time of such uncertainty. Children who come of age and have not gone through the puberty rite are liable to be forcibly seized to undergo the procedure. Joly came of age in the liberating turmoil of the 1960s in France, but her story was one of ambition rather than anarchy. The theme evokes the acute anxieties, those of the kids portrayed and those of the responsible adults, that attend coming of age. Many of the Chicano texts appropriate or written for young adults feature males coming of age. It is understood that the two young people are to marry as soon as Edwin comes of age, although this very understanding has been fatal to love between them. Adolescent boys and girls came of age by engaging in tribal rituals suited to their future adult roles. This is a ceremony which marks the coming of age for pubescent youngsters. Many human societies have tested young people coming of age with a quest or trial that tests the candidate's physical and mental skills and endurance. This ‘glorious, loving celebration’ follows young people as they come of age and prepare to enter the real world. 1.1(of a movement or activity) become fully established. （运动，活动）完全确定，成熟 space travel will then finally come of age 太空旅行终将实现。 Example sentencesExamples This exhibition simultaneously marks the coming of age of video art and honours Viola's status as a master of the medium. The Supreme Court Bill provides for New Zealand's final court of appeal to be located in New Zealand, and marks the coming of age of New Zealand's judicial system. I guess, finally, India is coming of age; at least the urban part of it, and given some time, rural India will also catch up. Yes, by all indications it appears sandboarding has finally come of age. For the movement which came of age in Seattle, the World Bank and the West Bank belong to the same political territory. Now the movement has come of age and deserves greater recognition. Socially responsible investing has finally come of age. After the birth pangs of the 1970s and 1980s, the gay movement had finally come of age, and I was proud to identify myself as a fully participating member of that community. Once a bastion for socialist thinking, the open source community is finally coming of age. The anti-globalisation movement has perhaps come of age - not on the streets of Seattle or London, but on the streets of Gaza, the West Bank and, soon, Baghdad. It will ensure that the judiciary comes of age and takes on responsibility for those features of the relationship that are critical to its future well-being. Or is this a sign that opinion polling in India is finally coming of age? This momentous shift has combined with the coming of age of human rights advocacy from the grass roots in Western countries. But they saw that book publishing had finally come of age in India, and they felt that a good review journal would serve to bring ‘book and reader together’. The new technology, coupled with more visionary architectural design, allowed America to finally come of age in the development of a distinctly American style. As evidenced from the undeniable success of tonight's event, the movement has come of age. A marginal movement has come of age, spawning a whole generation of human-rights advocates who are turning sex workers into a mainstream cause. Soyinka insists the day Africa is able to sort out its leadership vacuum is the day the continent will finally come of age. Science and technology came of age fully during WW I, when nations threw all their intellectual and productive energy at each other. The author suggests that by summer 1998 there had been a turning point, and a more confident Commission had come of age. of an age 1Old enough to be able or expected to do something. 到了…的年龄 the sons are of an age to marry 儿子们到了结婚的年龄。 Example sentencesExamples You'd probably been up late on the phone with them, despite being of an age where should know better, talking all night like high school kids with their first crush. She was not of an age to have helped or even to have supported the Nazis, and therefore (if justice requires that each should get his desert) it was unjust that she should bear the guilty burden of the past. They are now of an age that exceeds the average life expectancy in the countries where they live. He said some members of staff may be of an age where they want to consider voluntary retirement, while others would be re-deployed and High Lawn would also consider how many extra staff will be needed. Usually I like getting a new phone - I'm of an age where there's still some nagging sense of wonder that I can pick out my own phone in the first place. My teenage daughters get the bus all the time, but I know that when they are of an age when they can drive, they will start to use the car because it's cheaper. Zoe is glad when they marry; she's of an age where she's dying to flee the family home but wants to see her mother settled first. Leaving aside that they are not yet of an age considered able to make mature decisions, many are driven into conflict by pressures beyond their control, usually economic in nature. And so I was of an age where I wasn't being hired as an actress. The VEC was starting in 2001 with the first of the retirees- ‘none of whom looked to be of an age when they should retire’ -. Two of the sons are now 18 and 17 years old, certainly of an age when they could be rounded up. Indeed, those parents of an age to have had to put up with the abuse, ranting, demonstrating, and phony political idealism of the sixties will at last be getting some kind of return from their children. Memorandum to the elderly (and by elderly I mean anyone who is of an age to fit in to the generational demographic known as ‘baby boomer’, or older). One afternoon when we were eight or nine, still of an age when curiosity can over-ride kindness, my friend John McGuinness and I spent longer than we should have done proving that his dog was word-deaf. Mary Boyd Higgens is the main person behind it, though she must be very advanced in years now, as she was alive and of an age advanced enough to be appointed trustee when Reich died in '57. For the Professor, there was a terrible urgency to the rallies, since he was of an age where he could have been forced into uniform and sent off to fight, and this made the chanting and the cheering for Dr. Jim's oratory so much more passionate. Of the 6 blokes I am 1 of only 2 who is not married and is still of an age where getting blind drunk and climbing on top of bus shelters is ‘a plan’. More intensive training and supervision is needed to prevent mentors from inadvertently role modeling RA behaviors, since they are still of an age where this dynamic can be an issue. The main problem is that we're dealing with people who are largely of an age when they're anti-establishment and don't like being told what to do. I have to add that there is a very large decline in the attendance of dances held in the village hall every Monday night and run by an excellent team of teachers, all because those attending now are of an age when they cannot continue to attend. 2(of two or more people or things) of a similar age. （两者，多人，多物）年龄近似的 the children all seemed of an age 孩子们看起来差不多大。 Example sentencesExamples Though Kaumai was 'Aukele's nephew they were nearly of an age and surfed and boxed together. Bryan McFadden, of an age with me, has released a song called Irish Son. A well written story and something we, as we are of an age can understand where others cannot. The cousins were almost of an age, of much the same stature; but Olga had a pallid tint, tawny hair, and bluish eyes, whilst Irene's was a warm complexion, her hair of dark-brown, and her eyes of hazel. From my mid-30s to mid-40s, there were those who told me I looked just like Reba McEntire. We are of an age, and, at the time, I found it quite annoying. through the ages Throughout history. 自古至今，历史上 the influence of Greek culture through the ages Example sentencesExamples As I picked my way through the grounds, I remembered two warnings that have been passed down to me through the ages. It is a film that tackles the big questions that have preoccupied all the great philosophers and thinkers down through the ages. Meanwhile visitors to the museum can go on a historic tour of food and drink through the ages, during this week's Festival of Food and Drink. Human beings are the same through the ages, and having studied ancient music, I can vouch for that. But like every development through the ages, chat-rooms have brought unwanted problems. This was more than just a ritual… it was a sign of respect, an old tradition that had been passed down through the ages. And that is where regulars and the drinking public at large will assemble tomorrow for a day of drinking, music and pub games through the ages. The two-hour show tells the story of Irish dance through the ages with live musicians, singers and dancers. That is the tragically horrifying history of religion through the ages. This is a rule that has being passed down through the ages. The founders observed that tyrannical rule and material scarcity had by and large been the fate of man through the ages. This is a delightful festive show, divided into old-time music hall and a selection of Christmas songs and literary works through the ages. So if you feel like dropping in and going back in time through the ages of military history, or just a day out with the family, a great day is guaranteed. Other items include a 1966 World Cup programme, football boots through the ages, medals and trophies. So, if art has to survive through the ages, it must be free, flexible and able to adapt itself to changing tastes. I see the belief in the power of love as being a continuity through the ages. Being great intellectuals, they pretend instead that their yuppie entertainments are as worthy as any art through the ages. Of particular interest were the rooms dating from 1600 to present day and the large display of china through the ages. His strong Christian beliefs were at the heart of his life, guiding and directing him on his journey through the ages. These images and signs not only represent man's creativity through the ages but also may help in writing new chapters of history. Jackie Leviston and Alison Gracey of the Lancashire Witch project will give a talk on the history of witch craft through the ages. It's a classic, the sort of conspiracy theory which has fooled gullible people through the ages. Music has existed through the ages and is indeed one the oldest languages of the world, spoken all over in different dialects. The book charts the history of the town through the ages and is illustrated with many pictures showing how it has changed over the years. Origin Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin aetas, aetat-, from aevum 'age, era'. Rhymes assuage, backstage, cage, downstage, engage, enrage, gage, gauge, mage, multistage, offstage, onstage, Osage, page, Paige, rage, rampage, sage, stage, swage, under-age, upstage, wage noun.1 phr. Definition of age in US English: age nounājeɪdʒ 1The length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed. 年龄 he died from a heart attack at the age of 51 他51岁时死于心脏病。 he must be nearly 40 years of age 他肯定近40岁了。 his wife is the same age as Carla 他的妻子和尤娜同年。 young people between the ages of 11 and 18 11到18岁的年轻人。 Example sentencesExamples In all honesty, I don't have many relatives that have lived to ripe old ages apart from my maternal Grandfather. The girl was about fourteen years of age, shoulder length blonde hair and deep green eyes. Only McKinlay survived, living to the age of 95 when he died in Glasgow in 1983. Membership is open to girls between the ages of seven and ten. The children are of varying ages and live as any other family anywhere in the world does. Workers under 50 years of age can expect to live well into their eighties. The supervisors were from 33 to 47 years of age. Enthusiastic young people between the ages of 12 and 18 are invited to apply for the classes which take place on a two hour basis on Saturdays. She moved to 88 Park Row when she was one year of age, and lived there until she was married in 1984. On Tuesday next all children between the ages of 6 and 9 are invited to come along and take part. At seventeen years of age and a senior at High School in Boston he was outstanding. The club aims to provide entertainment for teenagers between the ages of 15 to 18 years in a fun and supervised environment. Imagine you're over 60 years of age and a squatter living in the largest slum in Kenya. There were 30 female students and 20 male students whose ages ranged from 9-10 years of age. Three hundred people of all ages attended a birthday service in York Minster. Dr Baig had many patients of varying ages who lived on their own and were suffering some form of depression, mainly from the lack of human interaction. For children, symptoms may be present between the ages of 2 to 4 years of age while presentation of symptoms occurs at start of school. None of us of this generation, I know, will be able to live up to the age of 126. Till the age of five she lived in Kollam, then Quilon, and left for New York with her parents in 1941. The servicemen recorded their age, rank, length of service, and marital status. Synonyms number of years, lifetime, duration, length of life 1.1 A particular stage in someone's life. 人生的特定阶段 children of primary school age 学龄儿童。 Example sentencesExamples Of course, people of all ages and histories could be found among the fans. Currently arrangements are being made for admission to the local primary school for those of school going ages and hopefully free transport will be arranged. She has made many appearances on stage from a young age in local musicals - South Pacific and Annie. A large crowd, various ages and nationalities, circled a cement stage, writing messages with chalk provided. He found men with heart disease had lower levels of testosterone than men of similar age and character with normal coronary arteries. The stage will be open to all ages and types of acts. Astrella Celeste has been performing on stage with her father from a young age and in her own right. That is about 540,000 people of all ages, including the elderly, single mothers and children. The children are separated into several classes according to their ages before they are enrolled into primary school. We work with all ages of people from toddlers to the elderly, men and women, new people moving into the area to people who have lived here all their lives. It's high school students, the elderly, and all the ages in between. Four-fifths of primary school governor chairmen felt teenage pregnancy should start to be discussed at primary ages, although only three out of ten schools covered the topic at that stage. It's no use trying to get people of my age to change their behaviour - they're just not going to. Paddlers of all ages and abilities are now getting into the last stages of training for the gruelling 125-mile marathon that is the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race. They covered all ages, from primary school pupils to pensioners. Every British citizen, of every age, has the right to voice their opinions and be heard by decision-makers. Her classes are suitable for people of any age and ability. At one stage he decided to show his friends of his own age that he could fire an arrow. Taking seven kids at different ages and stages to Disney World all at once! He and his friend Tobias Seeger needed only a few seconds to name the three girls their age who still live in town. For seven years the organisation has offered information, advice and support to carers of all ages who help to look after elderly or disabled relatives and friends. 1.2 The latter part of life or existence; old age. 晚年，老年 with age this gland can become sluggish 随着年龄增大，这种腺可能变得迟缓起来。 Example sentencesExamples Like a good wine, road racer Ian continues to improve with age. These are delicate, feminine and subtle wines, which are designed to improve with age. These found that few people with age related macular degeneration experienced improved vision with surgery. The acting, unlike the cheese it so resembles, has not improved with age. Carlin, by the way, is a rock god, a true legend who just keeps getting better and better with age. No matter how much you looked after your body, with age mental and physical abilities start to deteriorate, no fault of your own. The drug agency suggested that implants might be like cars or tires, which wear out with age. I miss the way her hands felt, her skin so soft and loose with age, but always comforting. Do you simply have to wait for time to take its toll, for age to get him out of office? The aim here is to restore the hormones that decline with age to their youthful levels. If anything the sheer poignancy and compelling simplicity of this vision of our existence deepens with age. At one level, the grandmother urge seems just a natural element of the cycle of life, which you come to feel more sensitively with age. Most beers are brewed to be drunk immediately but a handful of brewers are now producing beers that are intended to improve with age. In fatal cases, advanced age has been found to be the most important risk factor. But he has always had depth, and like the wine in his cellar he improves with age. Moreover, age will not improve what was sub-standard to start with. Even the really basic stuff like why does red wine get better with age and white wine worse? The cup final was a clash of age and experience against youth and strong will. Like the best food and drink, hopefully it will improve with age. Although it is the case that on average these abilities will go down with age, some people within the groups stay the same or even get a bit better. If wisdom does come with age, I should be very, very wise by now - having aged a good decade in the last 24 hours. I hate to admit it at this late age, but it was the first time I saw the entire film. I suggest it's probably bad for your career to be too up-front about age because people are so stupid about it. Well, seminar after seminar makes the point that bad news doesn't get better with age. Give him his due though, his voice improves with age and Young is possibly one of the country's finest soul singers of the classic mould. The researchers found that neuroticism declined with age in women but did not change in men. It is the Rolls Royce of awards ceremonies and, unlike most winners' faces, has only improved with age. But the car shows its age with a distinct lack of storage space and frustratingly fiddly stereo controls. Solano has played in all but one Villa game so far this season and has lost none of his skill and crossing ability with age. We desperately need age, experience and character on the backbenches of our parliament. The best of the chateaux make outstanding wines that improve with age, in taste and often in value. Synonyms elderliness, old age, oldness, seniority, maturity, dotage, senility 2A distinct period of history. 年代，时代 an age of technological growth 技术发展的年代。 a child of the television age 电视时代的孩子。 Example sentencesExamples Raising the club's profile in this media-dominated age is of vital importance to club's like York City. Fraser claims to hate ‘the modern world’ and would doubtless prefer to have lived in the Victorian age. Thus perished one of the greatest statesmen of his age and of Dutch history. We live in an age in which laws, rules, regulations, charters, policies and practices intrude on every aspect of our lives. He would have been remarkable in any age, in the age in which he lived, he is utterly amazing. We face the Brown era in fiction and a dark age for popular history. In the age of television and the Internet, we are not returning to the preliterate, but descending into the postliterate. As any school text will tell you, this was primarily an age of invention and rapid material progress. We live, after all, in one of the most conformist ages in history - the age of reason as we like to call it. Human history can be divided into two distinct ages - the geocentric and the heliocentric. His writings are also a major source for the social history of his age. So what we see is not a story of the past, but today's stories set against the previous age or period. The civil liberties case against ID cards is a feeble one that belongs to a more innocent age. In the age of reality, television is increasingly the realm of the amateur. During the ages of history human nature has undergone no essential change. This is the age where the television performs the role of a baby-sitter, than a means of entertainment. We live in an age when attention deficit disorder is rife amongst adults and children alike and brevity is a prized quality. The relationship between Aubrey and Maturin doesn't need to be explained by reference to any of the various ages of history. Historical novels can introduce children to how people lived in other ages, even if told with contemporary sensibilities in mind. Indeed, I believe its popularity is an important feature of the intellectual history of the present age. Synonyms era, epoch, period, time, aeon, span 2.1Geology A division of time that is a subdivision of an epoch, corresponding to a stage in chronostratigraphy. 〔地质〕代 Example sentencesExamples However, a range of volcanic ages from Lower Cambrian to Early Devonian is suggested on biostratrigraphic grounds. All other ages, epochs, and eras are represented by natural evolutionary and geological phenomena. It happened 252 million years ago, at the boundary of the Permian and Triassic geological ages. The bulk of the sediments on the outer margin are of Eocene to Oligocene age with thin units of younger sediments on top. However, there seems to be a marked age gap between the Cretaceous ages and onset of rifting in the Eocene. 2.2archaic A lifetime taken as a measure of time; a generation. 〈古〉一生；一（时）代 Nestor is said to have lived three ages when he was ninety years old 传说涅斯托耳到90岁时经历了三个时代。 Example sentencesExamples Uz, the country of Job, was probably in the middle of Northern Arabia; and the statement of Eusebius, that he lived two ages before Moses, or about the time of Isaac, some 1800 B.C., is probably as correct as can now be ascertained. He has nowhere remarked, like those Fathers of the Church who lived several ages after him, that there are four Gospels of higher importance and estimation than any others Naiore had lived two ages and avoided capture by many. An ancient poet, one who lived several ages before Socrates, speaks more determinately on this subject. And this grandson succeeded in subduing and crushing his brother Jacob, so that after several ages and generations of men, this glorious and most dignified nation of "kings and priests" became despised by him. 2.3ages/an ageBritish informal A very long time. 〈非正式〉很长时间 I haven't seen her for ages 我很长时间没见她了。 it would take an age to tell her everything Example sentencesExamples Finally after what seemed like ages we had our drinks and were sitting outside. I'm starting to slip back into my nocturnal, staying up very late self again because I was up ages the other night working on my Physics coursework. The French Connection hasn't been on television for ages. Some of the stage crew at Stratford who've been there for ages have said how my voice is just like my father's. I was reading WIRED for the first time in ages the other day, and found myself getting annoyed all over again at the breathless prose they use in their articles. The infirm and ill were beamed to safe havens ages ago. You wait ages for a television drama about what it's like to be fortysomething - wait until you're halfway through your 40s, in fact - and then four come along at once. I promise I won't write about television for ages. Synonyms a long time, a lifetime, an eternity, seemingly forever verbājeɪdʒ [no object] 1Grow old or older, especially visibly and obviously so. （尤指显而易见地）年龄增长，变老 the tiredness we feel as we age 随着年龄增长我们感到的疲劳。 you haven't aged a lot 你没怎么变老。 Example sentencesExamples He has teamed with Paul Simon, one of the few rock - era songwriters to mature as he aged, for a double blast of complex musicianship and high harmony. As Florida's answer to punk rock closes in on a decade of making music, their fan base may be growing, but it doesn't seem to be aging. Events happen day to day, as the episodes are broadcast, and unwind slowly with the years, so that characters grow and age in real time. She wondered what he would look like if he had been allowed to age to twenty-five years. Paramilitary bosses were ageing and their members grown rich on cross-border smuggling, robbery and money laundering. I've been looking at some pictures of when I first came and I've aged an awful lot. The couple claimed that because the tiles had aged they would no longer match and the whole lot should be replaced. Her cat is slowly aging and requires a lot of care. Shanghai has seen its population ageing for the past two decades, with senior residents now accounting for over 18 per cent of its population. If one is fortunate enough to be associated with a university, even as one ages, teaching allows one to contribute to, and vicariously share, in the creativity of youth. He aged and became senile, but no batter how shrunken his body became, he remained alive. As their home countries' economies grow and populations age, these flows are likely to get smaller. The objective was meant to prepare senior citizens to age gracefully and live a meaningful life. Now, Paterson is slight, but he is fast, he is willing, he is clever, and he is only going to get better and better as his rugby career, and his waist and chest and thighs, grow as he ages and matures. What happens as she ages and her voice grows out of the girlishness it can't get away from, deepens into a woman's voice expressing a woman's soul. Populations are aging and the need for an augmented labour force is growing. A lot of the content hasn't aged especially well in the past few decades, and much of the humor is still aimed at 10-year-olds. As he aged, Kantanos had grown more accustomed to his way of life, had accepted it. As my mother aged she grew more and more scattered and frustrating in a number of ways. And you will age in the same neighbourhoods; and you will grow grey in these same houses. Although we cannot stop aging, we can certainly stop growing old. Access to advanced medical devices is key to ensuring that the nation's healthcare system keeps pace with a population that is growing and aging. Ng said Hong Kong's population was ageing and the government's medical expenditure would continue to grow. You have Baby Boomers aging, a lot of them tremendous health care bills. I think they've aged in a lot of ways, but I don't think their essential character has changed. We are all going to age, but why allow ourselves to age faster than need be? 1.1with object Cause to grow, feel, or appear older. 使长大，使显老，变老 he even tried aging the painting with a spoonful of coffee 他甚至试着用一勺咖啡来让画看起来古旧。 Example sentencesExamples Dark lipstick ages you, it's true, but when you are 20 you want to look older than your age. She's a young woman and I didn't want to get her something that would age her, so I went with the single pearl. Movie magic had aged the paint and metal to make it look antique. Mrs. G. said that it was the sudden losses, not the passing years, that had aged her unexpectedly. And, having become a specialist in prosthetics, he was responsible for ageing Damian Lewis in the recent re-make of The Forsyte Saga. I'm not a feudal vassal, thank God, as all that toiling in the fields ages one horribly. I wished that I had aged the paper first by soaking in tea, as I usually do. As for domesticity, it ages one rapidly, and distracts one's mind from higher things. It was plenty warm outside, but the shawl would age her appearance even more. 1.2 (especially with reference to an alcoholic drink) mature or allow to mature. （尤指酒精饮料）变得陈香；使醇香 no object the wine ages in open vats or casks 葡萄酒在敞口的大木桶中变得陈香。 Example sentencesExamples For if you allow these beauties to age, even if only for a minute, they will lose their sharpness, their appeal and their zest. We bought six bottles then and they have been aging nicely and drinking excellently now. While this may sound rather unpleasant, it is the tannin which provides the structure of red wines and allows them to age and mature. Spirit labelled ‘brandy’ must be distilled from wine made from the fermentation of grapes and by law has to be aged for a minimum of three years in oak barrels. Time flew, and before long, those good-value wines aged and became almost too good to drink - was there ever an occasion important enough? Quality Vouvray, either dry or sweet, demands to be aged. The wine will age, our anger with France will pass, and we'll buy that Burgundy in a few years. Of course, now comes the hard part, the one in which you have to wait and let the jars rest, allowing them to age on a shelf in the cool cellar. The taste is unique with a charcoal mellowed flavour that contains influences from the barrel it was aged in with hints of caramel, vanilla, and oak. For three years the wine is aged in new barrels made of hand-split oak staves. If good wines need time to age properly, the same could said of speeches. The merchants then aged the wine, bottled and sold it around the world often featuring the merchant's name prominently. Firstly, for a €13 bottle, this was compelling wine that aged and evolved very interestingly over four or five years. The wine is aged for 3 years, with at least two years in oak barrels before release. Madeira is the only wine in the world where heat is deliberately applied to age the wine artificially. The culturing process continues as the mild cheddar is allowed to age for about two months. Cheeses age at different rates and must be held at constant temperatures to achieve their optimum flavour. The big question, therefore, particularly given the lack of acidity, is whether these wines will age well. It's best to have one that's made with the same material that your wine is aged in. And raw-milk cheeses aged more than 60 days are not risk-free either. Synonyms mature, ripen, mellow, become mellow, make mellow, season, condition, soften, sweeten, grow up, come of age 1.3with object Determine how old (something) is. 决定（某物）的年龄 we didn't have a clue how to age these animals 我们无从知晓这些动物的年龄。 Example sentencesExamples Cubs were aged when they were first seen, when their age could be estimated to within an accuracy of 1 month. Birds were aged according to a regression equation for age on the length of the wing for storks. All captured birds were aged (young of the year or adult), sexed, and marked. The fish are aged by identifying and counting the number of annulus found on a fish scale. Timed embryos were aged more specifically by morphology. Phrases act (or be) one's age usually in imperativeBehave in a manner appropriate to someone of one's age and not to someone much younger. 行为与年龄相称 “Act your age” is not advice to behave like an adolescent Example sentencesExamples I can now rely on a regular commentary on their allowance, my manipulation of their weekend schedules to give me time to put my feet up and my failure to act my age when talking to their friends. The rapper is 16 years old and ready to start acting his age. I would have to change my ways completely, I'd have to grow up, act my age, be responsible and actually have a go at making a relationship work. Since the theme of the week is apparently not knowing how to act one's age… What happens when the football stops, when those 35-year-old legs give up the pretence and start acting their age? So he stands supreme in terms of a sportsman not acting his age. And no, this is one actress who doesn't change the subject when you ask her age and, yes, she's comfortable with ‘acting her age’, never mind that she had been a heart-throb when she left the industry. Just because we can steer the car with our beer bellies these days, it doesn't mean that we have to act our age. Ah, with that cute smile one can only hope that she grows up to be a good person, still acts her age and does not become the typical self-conscious Indonesian celebrity. I won't grow up, I won't slow down, I won't act my age. This year something remarkable has happened in Hollywood: women are everywhere, playing the best parts, even acting their age. What makes the whole thing work on a deeper level is that Curtis not only acts her age but shows it. It's become apparent in recent years that 40 is the new 30, that 50 is the new 40, that no one wants to act their age. ‘But I have never felt or acted my age, and I didn't want to start now,’ Heather says. Just for You is more sedate in tone, and both stars are playing more mature characters - indeed, since Bing has a teenaged son in this movie, it's appropriate for him to act his age a little more. They no longer feel that they have to act their age, but have released themselves to no longer worry ‘What will people think?’ It's here that she realizes that shutting out love won't bring back her mother, and that she really does need to start acting her age. They actually acted their age… Most of the time, when we're out for dinner, they tend to poke and prod at each other, clown around etc, I'm sure they do it to wind me up. Yes - this winter showed me that I'm not a youngster any more - even if I still don't act my age! You know what happens when you don't let kids loose, when you take away their right to act their age or be better than someone else at something or be able to win, place or show? People say act your age, but what is that supposed to mean? come of age 1(of a person) reach adult status. Example sentencesExamples Young people mark their coming of age in different ceremonies or initiations. These people are the adults of tomorrow and are coming of age. Adolescent boys and girls came of age by engaging in tribal rituals suited to their future adult roles. This is a ceremony which marks the coming of age for pubescent youngsters. They shared the overriding objective of preserving for the time he came of age the inheritances won by his grandfather and father in England and France. The key to Hong Kong's emergence was its status as a free port at the edge of China, but the emergence of a national identity dates to the early 1970s, when a generation of young people born and raised in Hong Kong came of age. For young people coming of age now I think it's particularly sad, because I feel like I had it just 10 years ago. Many of the Chicano texts appropriate or written for young adults feature males coming of age. Young people coming of age imbibed this political atmosphere, for the most part unconsciously. It is understood that the two young people are to marry as soon as Edwin comes of age, although this very understanding has been fatal to love between them. Joly came of age in the liberating turmoil of the 1960s in France, but her story was one of ambition rather than anarchy. The theme evokes the acute anxieties, those of the kids portrayed and those of the responsible adults, that attend coming of age. He faced the prospect of losing his position, and might be motivated to ensure his long-term power and status beyond the point of the rightful monarch coming of age. Many of these are young people who had not yet come of age at the time of the previous elections. Adolescent Development and Rapid Social Change addresses the psychological consequences for these young people who came of age during a time of such uncertainty. Many human societies have tested young people coming of age with a quest or trial that tests the candidate's physical and mental skills and endurance. Teens and young adults will come of age taking the Internet for granted, as their parents did television, as their grandparents did telephones. This ‘glorious, loving celebration’ follows young people as they come of age and prepare to enter the real world. Children who come of age and have not gone through the puberty rite are liable to be forcibly seized to undergo the procedure. 1.1(of a movement or activity) become fully established. （运动，活动）完全确定，成熟 space travel will then finally come of age 太空旅行终将实现。 Example sentencesExamples Socially responsible investing has finally come of age. Science and technology came of age fully during WW I, when nations threw all their intellectual and productive energy at each other. For the movement which came of age in Seattle, the World Bank and the West Bank belong to the same political territory. Or is this a sign that opinion polling in India is finally coming of age? A marginal movement has come of age, spawning a whole generation of human-rights advocates who are turning sex workers into a mainstream cause. The anti-globalisation movement has perhaps come of age - not on the streets of Seattle or London, but on the streets of Gaza, the West Bank and, soon, Baghdad. As evidenced from the undeniable success of tonight's event, the movement has come of age. This exhibition simultaneously marks the coming of age of video art and honours Viola's status as a master of the medium. I guess, finally, India is coming of age; at least the urban part of it, and given some time, rural India will also catch up. But they saw that book publishing had finally come of age in India, and they felt that a good review journal would serve to bring ‘book and reader together’. The new technology, coupled with more visionary architectural design, allowed America to finally come of age in the development of a distinctly American style. Yes, by all indications it appears sandboarding has finally come of age. This momentous shift has combined with the coming of age of human rights advocacy from the grass roots in Western countries. Now the movement has come of age and deserves greater recognition. After the birth pangs of the 1970s and 1980s, the gay movement had finally come of age, and I was proud to identify myself as a fully participating member of that community. The author suggests that by summer 1998 there had been a turning point, and a more confident Commission had come of age. Soyinka insists the day Africa is able to sort out its leadership vacuum is the day the continent will finally come of age. Once a bastion for socialist thinking, the open source community is finally coming of age. It will ensure that the judiciary comes of age and takes on responsibility for those features of the relationship that are critical to its future well-being. The Supreme Court Bill provides for New Zealand's final court of appeal to be located in New Zealand, and marks the coming of age of New Zealand's judicial system. of an age 1Old enough to be able or expected to do something. 到了…的年龄 the sons are of an age to marry 儿子们到了结婚的年龄。 Example sentencesExamples They are now of an age that exceeds the average life expectancy in the countries where they live. Memorandum to the elderly (and by elderly I mean anyone who is of an age to fit in to the generational demographic known as ‘baby boomer’, or older). Indeed, those parents of an age to have had to put up with the abuse, ranting, demonstrating, and phony political idealism of the sixties will at last be getting some kind of return from their children. He said some members of staff may be of an age where they want to consider voluntary retirement, while others would be re-deployed and High Lawn would also consider how many extra staff will be needed. And so I was of an age where I wasn't being hired as an actress. For the Professor, there was a terrible urgency to the rallies, since he was of an age where he could have been forced into uniform and sent off to fight, and this made the chanting and the cheering for Dr. Jim's oratory so much more passionate. My teenage daughters get the bus all the time, but I know that when they are of an age when they can drive, they will start to use the car because it's cheaper. She was not of an age to have helped or even to have supported the Nazis, and therefore (if justice requires that each should get his desert) it was unjust that she should bear the guilty burden of the past. Mary Boyd Higgens is the main person behind it, though she must be very advanced in years now, as she was alive and of an age advanced enough to be appointed trustee when Reich died in '57. I have to add that there is a very large decline in the attendance of dances held in the village hall every Monday night and run by an excellent team of teachers, all because those attending now are of an age when they cannot continue to attend. You'd probably been up late on the phone with them, despite being of an age where should know better, talking all night like high school kids with their first crush. The main problem is that we're dealing with people who are largely of an age when they're anti-establishment and don't like being told what to do. More intensive training and supervision is needed to prevent mentors from inadvertently role modeling RA behaviors, since they are still of an age where this dynamic can be an issue. Zoe is glad when they marry; she's of an age where she's dying to flee the family home but wants to see her mother settled first. One afternoon when we were eight or nine, still of an age when curiosity can over-ride kindness, my friend John McGuinness and I spent longer than we should have done proving that his dog was word-deaf. Two of the sons are now 18 and 17 years old, certainly of an age when they could be rounded up. Usually I like getting a new phone - I'm of an age where there's still some nagging sense of wonder that I can pick out my own phone in the first place. Leaving aside that they are not yet of an age considered able to make mature decisions, many are driven into conflict by pressures beyond their control, usually economic in nature. Of the 6 blokes I am 1 of only 2 who is not married and is still of an age where getting blind drunk and climbing on top of bus shelters is ‘a plan’. The VEC was starting in 2001 with the first of the retirees- ‘none of whom looked to be of an age when they should retire’ -. 2(of two or more people or things) of a similar age. （两者，多人，多物）年龄近似的 the children all seemed of an age 孩子们看起来差不多大。 Example sentencesExamples The cousins were almost of an age, of much the same stature; but Olga had a pallid tint, tawny hair, and bluish eyes, whilst Irene's was a warm complexion, her hair of dark-brown, and her eyes of hazel. A well written story and something we, as we are of an age can understand where others cannot. Though Kaumai was 'Aukele's nephew they were nearly of an age and surfed and boxed together. Bryan McFadden, of an age with me, has released a song called Irish Son. From my mid-30s to mid-40s, there were those who told me I looked just like Reba McEntire. We are of an age, and, at the time, I found it quite annoying. through the ages Throughout history. 自古至今，历史上 Example sentencesExamples As I picked my way through the grounds, I remembered two warnings that have been passed down to me through the ages. So, if art has to survive through the ages, it must be free, flexible and able to adapt itself to changing tastes. Being great intellectuals, they pretend instead that their yuppie entertainments are as worthy as any art through the ages. The two-hour show tells the story of Irish dance through the ages with live musicians, singers and dancers. Human beings are the same through the ages, and having studied ancient music, I can vouch for that. This was more than just a ritual… it was a sign of respect, an old tradition that had been passed down through the ages. This is a delightful festive show, divided into old-time music hall and a selection of Christmas songs and literary works through the ages. Jackie Leviston and Alison Gracey of the Lancashire Witch project will give a talk on the history of witch craft through the ages. The founders observed that tyrannical rule and material scarcity had by and large been the fate of man through the ages. Other items include a 1966 World Cup programme, football boots through the ages, medals and trophies. Meanwhile visitors to the museum can go on a historic tour of food and drink through the ages, during this week's Festival of Food and Drink. The book charts the history of the town through the ages and is illustrated with many pictures showing how it has changed over the years. Music has existed through the ages and is indeed one the oldest languages of the world, spoken all over in different dialects. I see the belief in the power of love as being a continuity through the ages. It is a film that tackles the big questions that have preoccupied all the great philosophers and thinkers down through the ages. These images and signs not only represent man's creativity through the ages but also may help in writing new chapters of history. His strong Christian beliefs were at the heart of his life, guiding and directing him on his journey through the ages. So if you feel like dropping in and going back in time through the ages of military history, or just a day out with the family, a great day is guaranteed. It's a classic, the sort of conspiracy theory which has fooled gullible people through the ages. That is the tragically horrifying history of religion through the ages. And that is where regulars and the drinking public at large will assemble tomorrow for a day of drinking, music and pub games through the ages. Of particular interest were the rooms dating from 1600 to present day and the large display of china through the ages. This is a rule that has being passed down through the ages. But like every development through the ages, chat-rooms have brought unwanted problems. Origin Middle English: from Old French, based on Latin aetas, aetat-, from aevum ‘age, era’. noun.1 phr.
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