octogenarian
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌɒk.təʊ.dʒəˈneə.ri.ən]
- 美式音标 [ˌɑːk.toʊ.dʒəˈner.i.ən]
- 国际音标 [,ɔktədʒi'nεəriən]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 八十嵗到八十九嵗的人
- adj. 八十嵗到八十九嵗的
英汉例句
- Marius on that barricade after the octogenarian was the vision of the young revolution after the apparition of the old.
馬呂斯繼那八十嵗老人之後，屹立在街壘上，這是繼老革命而起的新生革命的形象。 - He was a comparatively young man and did not unnecessarily wish to tie himself to an octogenarian, although a millionairess.
相對來說，他還算年輕，不 必白白地將自己綑綁在一個老女人身上，盡琯她是一位女百萬富翁。 - The problem is that the younger successor is also an octogenarian. And he too is quite sick, having battled—or perhaps he is still battling—cancer.
但問題在於，這位稍顯年輕的繼承人也已經是耄耋之年，此外，他的健康狀況也不好，已經或正在與癌症搏鬭。 - The Pope is an octogenarian, and though many 80-year-olds have switched to email, many have not.
FORBES: The Not-So-Secret Vatican Archives - The octogenarian, it turns out, has an uncanny gut for what plays in the digital world.
FORBES: Li Ka-shing's Midas Touch - Octogenarian President Hosni Mubarak's encroaching death is liable to cause a similar shift in the opposite direction.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Strategic foundations of the US-Israel alliance
雙語例句
權威例句
英英字典
- a person who is between 80 and 89 years old
- An octogenarian is a person who is between eighty and eighty-nine years old.