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A person who has reached the age of 100, or is older than that. It works as a noun ("she is a centenarian") and as an adjective ("a centenarian gardener"). You meet it most often in news stories and hospital or government writing — a country counting how many centenarians it has, a local paper visiting one on their birthday. In ordinary speech people simply say "she's a hundred" or "he turned a hundred last week". There is also supercentenarian for someone 110 or over, used by the researchers who keep records of the oldest people alive.
人瑞(活到一百歲以上的人)。台灣新聞和地方政府就是用「人瑞」這個詞,例如「百歲人瑞」。
組成From Latin centēnārius, "containing a hundred", built on centum (hundred), plus the English ending -an that makes a word for a person — like a librarian works in a library, a centenarian has a hundred years.
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。
centenariannoun/ˌsɛnəˈnɛɹiən/
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One who or that which is at least 100 years old.
- The average age of these 203 centenarians was 102 years 5 months and 25 days.
- With an estimated worldwide population of some 40,000 centenarians, only 22 percent are male.
centenarianadj/ˌsɛnəˈnɛɹiən/
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Aged 100 years or more; extremely old.
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Of or relating to centenarians or a centenary celebration.
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。