A 2012 press release from Statistics Sweden bears the title "Gender Equality in Sweden Treading(踩)Water" and notes: 1、The total income from employment for all ages is lower for women than for men
出自-2014年6月閱讀原文
I think that it's grossly overstated that one needs to have contact with the opposite sex right through the whole of life, in the classroom and outside the classroom and at all ages.
出自-2013年12月聽力原文
For the next three months, Michelle Kremer and 11 other Obama supporters, ages 19 to 34, will blog about life across mainstream America, with one twist: by tying all of their ideas and experiences to the new president and his administration, the bloggers will try to start a conversation about what it means to be young and politically active in America today.
出自-2010年6月閱讀原文
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年齡
Your age is the number of years that you have lived.
例句
She has a nephew who is just ten years of age...
她有一個才10歲的侄子。
At the age of sixteen he qualified for a place at the University of Hamburg...
16歲時，他就有資格進入漢堡大學。
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壽命
The age of a thing is the number of years since it was made.
例句
Everything in the room looks in keeping with the age of the building.
房間里的一切看起來都與這棟建筑物的存在年頭很相稱。
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N-UNCOUNT
老年；變老
Age is the state of being old or the process of becoming older.
例句
Perhaps he has grown wiser with age...
可能隨著年紀增長，他變聰明了。
The fabric was showing signs of age...
這塊衣料可以看出歲月留下的痕跡。
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V-ERG
（使）變老；（使）顯老
When someone ages, or when something ages them, they seem much older and less strong or less alert.
例句
He had always looked so young, but he seemed to have aged in the last few months...
他原來一直看起來很年輕，但最近幾個月他顯得老了。
He was only in his mid-thirties, but already worry had aged him.
他雖然只有三十五六歲，但憂慮讓他很顯老。
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V-ERG
（使）變陳；（使）成熟
When food or alcohol is aged or when it ages, it is left to get older before being eaten or drunk, so that it develops a better flavour.
例句
Balsamic vinegar is aged in wood for at least 10 years and the flavour is wonderful...
意大利香醋在木桶中就經歷了至少10年的醞釀期，所以口味極佳。
Whisky loses strength as it ages.
存放時間越久，威士忌的口味越淡。
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（一）代；時代；時期
An age is a period in history.
例句
...the age of steam and steel.
蒸汽和鋼鐵時代
...items of Bronze Age pottery.
青銅器時代的陶器
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很長的時間
You can say an age or ages to mean a very long time.
例句
He waited what seemed an age...
他等了似乎很長時間。
The bus took absolutely ages to arrive.
公共汽車過了很長時間才來。
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PHRASE
舉止和年齡相稱
If someone tells you to act your age, they are telling you to behave in a way that is suitable for someone your age, because they think you are behaving in a childish way.
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PHRASE
成熟；發達
If something comes of age, it reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people.
例句
Recycling is an issue that has come of age in Britain in the last decade.
回收利用是上個十年中被英國民眾廣泛認可的觀念。
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PHRASE
成年;達到法定年齡
When someone comes of age, they become legally an adult.
例句
The company was to be held in trust for Eddie until he came of age.
在埃迪達到法定年齡之前，該公司將委托他人代為經營。
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PHRASE
未到合法年齡的;未成年的
Someone who is under age is not legally old enough to do something, for example to buy an alcoholic drink.
例句
Because she was under age, her parents were still responsible for her.
因為她還未成年，她的父母仍然應為她負責。
...under age smoking.
未成年吸煙