英文四级语法考试备考:用英文表达年龄常见方式:
(1)一般立即用基数词表明,如: Her daughter is eighteen. 她的闺女18岁。
(2)用“基数词 years old”表明,有时候可将years old 换为years of age.如: Her daughter is eighteen years old. / Her daughter iseighteen years of age. 她的闺女18岁。
(3)用“at the age of 基数词”表明。如: Her daughter got married at the age of eighteen. 她的闺女18岁就结婚了。
(4)用“基数词-year-old”表明,此构造常做(外置)定语。如: Her 18-year-old daughter is now in the university. 他18岁的闺女如今读大学。
(5)用“of 基数词”表明,此构造常做后置定语。如: Her daughter is now a pretty girl of 18. 她闺女如今一个18岁的清纯少女了。
(6)用“aged 基数词”表明,此构造常做后置定语。如: Lying on the floor was a boy aged about seventeen. 躺在木地板上的是一个约莫十七岁的男孩儿。
(7)用“be in one's 几十的复数形式”表明某概的年纪。如: He went to the United States in his fifties. 他五十多岁时来到英国。