eighty

柯林斯词典

1. NUM Eighty is the number 80. 80
Eighty horses trotted up. 80匹馬小跑上來。
2. N-PLURAL When you talk about the eighties, you are referring to numbers between 80 and 89. For example, if you are in your eighties, you are aged between 80 and 89. If the temperature is in the eighties, the temperature is between 80 and 89 degrees. 八十幾
He was in his late eighties and had become the country's most respected elder statesman. 那時他年近九十，竝且已經成爲該國最受尊敬的政界元老。
3. N-PLURAL The eighties is the decade between 1980 and 1989. 80年代
He ran a property development business in the eighties. 他在80年代經營一家房地産開發公司。

The computer screen displays eighty characters per line .
It's not unusual for a junior doctor to work a seventy or sometimes an eighty hour week .
We had eighty applicants for the job , but we've whittled them down to six.
Together they must earn over eighty thousand dollars a year .
My dad is going to be eighty on Sunday and we're having a big party to celebrate .