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

• At eighteen, I married a middle-aged man.
  十八岁时我嫁给了一个中年人。
• 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。
• She is a middle-aged woman.
  她是个中年妇女。
• The author carried out an investigation through questionnaire method to young and middle-aged population in Xuzhou.
  通过问卷调查法对徐州市中青年群体进行调查研究。
• Our school has set up a leading group, made up of old, middle-aged and young cadres.
  我们学校组成了一个包括老、中、青干部的领导小组。
• My parents are a middle-aged couple.
  我的父母是一对中年夫妇。
• 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。
• A middle-aged woman killed her husband, which frightened me very much.
  一个中年女子杀害了自己的丈夫，这令我十分恐惧。
• 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。
• They were a middle-aged couple.
  他们是一对中年夫妇。