middle-aged

英 [ˌmɪdl ˈeɪdʒd]

美 [ˌmɪdl ˈeɪdʒd]

adj.  中年的; 中年人; 烦人的; 保守的; 过时的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 中年的
  neither young nor old
• 中年人
  people who are middle-aged
• 烦人的；保守的；过时的
  rather boring and old-fashioned

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 中年的
  If you describe someone asmiddle-aged, you mean that they are neither young nor old. People between the ages of 40 and 60 are usually considered to be middle-aged.
  1. His sisters are grown up and his parents are middle-aged.
     他的姐妹们都已成人，而他的父母亲也人到中年。
  2. ...middleaged, married businessmen.
     已婚的中年商人
  3. The middle-agedare people who are middle-aged.
     中年人
  4. ...the perfect holiday for the middle-aged.
     中年人的理想假期
• ADJ-GRADED 具有中年人特点的;保守的;过时的
  If you describe someone's activities or interests asmiddle-aged, you are critical of them because you think they are typical of a middle-aged person, for example by being conventional or old-fashioned.
  1. Her novels are middle-aged and boring.
     她的小说刻板乏味。

英英释义

adj

• being roughly between 45 and 65 years old

双语例句

• There were a few middle-aged and even elderly women in the train.
  火车上有几个中年以上的妇女。
• Middle-aged and young generation, so fast.
  所以快中年和年轻一代的人们。
• The tensions of the Nixon presidency were replaced by the plain vanilla administration of a friendly, middle-aged, middle-class man from the Middle West.
  尼克松时代的紧张局面被一届平淡无奇的政府所取代，继任总统温和友善，正值中年，出身中产阶级，来自中西部。
• The film depicts the seduction of a schoolgirl by a middle-aged man.
  电影描述了一个女学生被中年男子勾引的故事。
• They're a middle-aged couple, with grown-up children.
  他们是一对中年夫妇，孩子们都已成年。
• I am already a middle-aged man.
  我已是一个中年的人。
• At eighteen, I married a middle-aged man.
  十八岁时我嫁给了一个中年人。
• A middle-aged woman answered the door.
  一个中年妇女应声开了门。
• His fan base is mostly middle-aged ladies.
  他的崇拜者大多是中年女士。
• Gathered together, the old, the middle-aged and the young studied side by side and encouraged each other.
  老、中、青济济一堂，共同学习，相互激励。