Tom was ten years old when he came to our town. 汤姆十岁时来到我们镇。
Bob will turn fourteen next week. 鲍勃下周十四岁了。
When Clinton was four, his mother remarried Roger Clinton, a car dealer.
克林顿四岁的时候,他母亲再婚嫁给了一位汽车销售商罗杰·克林顿。
2、我们也可以用介词“at”表达年龄,可以是“at the age of”+ 基数词,或“at”+ 基数词,或就用“at”+ 基数词。例如:
At the age of eighteen, Mary went to New York. 玛丽十八岁的时候去了纽约。
My sister learned to dance at age six. 我妹妹四岁的时候学习了舞蹈。
Children go to school at six. 孩子们六岁上学。
3、介词“of”+ 基数词,可以放在名词后面表示年龄。例如:
As a boy of six, he can hardly understand it. 他只是个六岁的孩子,很难理解这件事。 Jenny, a lovely girl of nine, comes from the United States.
珍妮,一个可爱的九岁女孩,来自于美国。
She has a sister of sixteen. 她有一个十六岁的姐姐。
4、表示一个人大约几十岁时,可以用“in one’s”+ 几十岁的复数形式。例如: He began to learn Russian when he was in his fifties. 他五十多岁开始学俄语。
He was in his thirties when he moved to England. 他迁往英国的时候已经三十来岁了。 When she was in her twenties, she loved to stay in the mountains alone for a few days.