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You can picture age as the amount of time something has been alive or existing — the years stacking up behind a person, an animal, a thing. From that one measure of 'how much time has passed' everything else unfolds: a threshold of years the law watches for, a stretch of life, the worn state of being old, a named span of history, and the verb of time doing its slow work on you.

可以把 age 想成一樣東西「已經活了多久、存在了多久」——一個人、一隻動物、一件物品背後堆疊起來的年數。從這個「過…更多收起可以把 age 想成一樣東西「已經活了多久、存在了多久」——一個人、一隻動物、一件物品背後堆疊起來的年數。從這個「過了多少時間」的量度，其他意思一一展開：法律盯著的某個年數門檻、人生的一段時期、被歲月磨出的「老」、歷史上有名字的一段時代，以及當動詞時時間慢慢在你身上做的工。

原始詞典資料28 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

agenoun/eɪd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)

    • "What is the age of your oldest child?" — "He's ten." (ten years old)
    • What were their ages at the time of their marriage?
  • 2

    The state of being old; the latter part of life.

    • Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.
    • Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
  • 3

    Any particular stage of life.

    • the age of infancy
  • 4

    The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.

    • the age of consent; the age of discretion
  • 5

    Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.

    • to come of age; she is now of age
  • 6

    A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.

    • the golden age of cinema; the first age of colonialism; a bygone age
    • Encircling the marble altar was a congregation of leering shamen. Eerie chants of a bygone age, originating unknown eons before the memory of man, were being uttered from the buried recesses of the acolytes' deep lings ^([sic]).
  • 7

    A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.

    • the age of Pericles; the age of the dinosaurs
  • 8

    A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.

    • The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age.
另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesA particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.

    • The Tithonian Age was the last in the Late Jurassic Epoch.
  • 10

    astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismOne of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and governed by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.

    • Mr Lewis says we are living in the age of Aquarius, which means that the world is at present passing through the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, the airy constellation.
  • 11

    A period of one hundred years; a century.

  • 12

    datedA generation.

    • There are three ages living in her house.
  • 13

    A long time.

    • It’s been an age since we last saw you.
  • 14

    Lifespan, lifetime; the total time that some being is alive from birth to death (or some category of beings, on average).

    • The age of man is three score years and ten.
    • Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse.
  • 15

    card-gamespokerThe entitlement of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.

ageverb/eɪd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age.

    • He grew fat as he aged.
    • I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-coloured, hair here and there. Sober thinking brings them
  • 2

    To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age.

    • His prediction that we didn't stand a chance hasn't aged well, now that we've won the cup.
    • The sitcom was made in the 1970s and its casual sexism has not aged well.
  • 3

    To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.

    • Grief ages us.
    • To look at the hair by itself you'd say it was actually quite pretty, but on her head the gray sure ages her.
  • 4

    To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.

    • We age the whiskey for five years.
  • 5

    To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.

    • This clock is modern, but it has been deliberately aged in an attempt to make it seem antique.
  • 6

    To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in existence).

    • There are several ways to age trees.
  • 7

    To indicate or reveal that (a person) has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.

    • I clearly remember hearing the news of Kennedy's assassination. That ages me.
    • Mr. [David] Brinkley started out with network news. We got our news- I think it was the Huntley-Brinkley Report. I'm probably aging myself now, okay?
  • 8

    To allow (something) to persist by postponing an action that would extinguish it, as a debt.

    • Money's a little tight right now. Let's age our bills for a week or so.
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  • 9

    accountingbusinessfinanceTo categorize by age.

    • One his first assignments was to age the accounts receivable.

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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。