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    Ageing is the British spelling of aging. The meaning does not change with the letters. As a noun it is the process of growing older: the ageing of the population means a country has more older people, on average. As an adjective it means getting older, often with the feeling that something is past its best: an ageing actor, ageing equipment. American English usually aging. In Taiwan you will see both — British-leaning textbooks like ageing; American news and software like aging. Pick one spelling in one piece of writing and stay with it.

    老化、高齡化(英式拼法;美式寫 aging)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成age + -ing; British spelling keeps the e (ageing), American spelling usually drops it (aging).

同家族的字

  • agethe verb and noun this spelling belongs to
  • agingthe American spelling of the same word

原始詞典資料3 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。

ageingnoun/ˈeɪd͡ʒɪŋ/

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    Commonwealth, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of aging.

ageingadj/ˈeɪd͡ʒɪŋ/

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    UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of aging.

    • "The Tees Valley has ageing diesel trains that predate any form of emission control.
    • These two events have exposed the road haulage industry as being reliant on a poorly paid and ageing workforce, dependent on employees recruited from low-wage countries in Europe.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。