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

• The guests were mostly middle-aged men talking business.
  顾客多数是些谈正事的中年男子。
• I am37 years old, middle-aged life so inadvertently arrived.
  我今年37岁了，中年生活就这样不经意地来到了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• B No, she's not. She's middle-aged!
  B不，她不年轻了。她人到中年了！
• But in this case there are lots of young and middle-aged people.
  但是，这次有许多年轻人和中年人参加。
• Her novels are middle-aged and boring.
  她的小说刻板乏味。
• 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。
• Three are young lads, one is middle-aged and one is elderly.
  他们中三个是年轻小伙子，还有一位中年乐手和一位老年乐手。