喜樂美語
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    Ageist is the unfair view or the unfair act: treating older people as less important, less able, or less worth listening to, just because they are old. You can say an ageist joke, an ageist rule, or “that comment is ageist.” It can also name a person: “He’s an ageist.” Ageism is the habit or the system; ageist is the attitude, the remark, or the person. Built from age + -ist, the same pattern as racist beside racism. It is a strong word — you use it when you mean the treatment is unfair, not when you only mean someone is old.

    年齡歧視的；年齡歧視者

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組成age + -ist. The age piece is ordinary English age (through Middle English and Old French, from Latin). Do not need the long prehistoric tree to use the word.

同家族的字

  • agethe first half: how old someone is
  • ageismthe unfair system or habit this adjective belongs to

原始詞典資料2 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。

ageistadj/ˈeɪ̯.dʒɪst/

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    Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.

    • Upon hearing that his employer would soon require yearly physical examinations and vision screening, my father exclaimed that the policy was ageist.
    • Even though she had succeeded in the phone interview, when the ageist employer learned that the candidate was only 18 years old, she became hesitant.

ageistnoun/ˈeɪ̯.dʒɪst/

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    A person who behaves in an ageist manner.

    • He didn’t like to think of himself as an ageist, but he had to admit that he hadn’t considered the needs of some of the more elderly participants.

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。