核心畫面
One picture holds this word together: something that has age on it. Sometimes the amount of age is stated as a number (children aged 12), and sometimes the age is simply a lot — an aged grandmother, someone with many years behind them. Note the pronunciation split: 'aged 12' is one syllable, but 'an aged man' is two (AY-jid).
可以想成：這個字在說「身上已經累積了年歲」。有時候那個年歲被直接寫成一個數字——children aged 12，就…更多收起
可以想成：這個字在說「身上已經累積了年歲」。有時候那個年歲被直接寫成一個數字——children aged 12，就是「十二歲的孩子」；有時候不寫數字，只留下「歲數很多」的印象——his aged grandmother，一位年邁的祖母。兩邊共用同一個畫面，差別只在年歲是被標出來，還是被感覺到。一個要特別留意的細節是：這兩個用法唸法不同，aged 12 的 aged 唸一個音節，an aged man 的 aged 唸兩個音節。整體來說這個字偏書面，日常口語講年齡多半直接說 She's twelve、He's very old。原始詞典資料5 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。
agedadj/eɪdʒd/
- 1
Old.
- I knocked on the door and an aged man opened it.
- The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.
- 2
Having the age of.
- Aged 18, he had no idea what to do with his life.
- John Mathews, aged about 18, stood at the bar with his hands in his pockets, alike indifferent to a verdict of acquittal or guilty.
- 3
Having undergone the improving effects of time; matured.
- aged whiskey
- The Lethrblaka's blood, to Eragon's astonishment, was a metallic blue-green, not unlike the verdigris that forms on aged copper.
agednoun/ˈeɪ.dʒɪd/
- 1
Old people, collectively.
- the aged
- health insurance and retirement income for the aged
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。