- [not before noun]
of the age of …歲 - (formal)
very old 年邁的 my aged aunt 我年邁的嬸嬸 Having aged relatives to stay in your house can be quite stressful. 年邁的親戚住在家裏有時壓力相當大。 I’m not sure if my aged car can make it up that hill. 我拿不準我的老爺車是否能爬上那座山。
Synonyms oldoldTopics Life stagesc1- elderly
- aged
- long-lived
- mature
- old having lived for a long time; no longer young:
She’s getting old—she’s 75 next year. 她上年紀了,明年就 75 歲了。
- elderly (rather formal
) used as a polite word for ‘old’: old 的委婉語,指年紀較大的、上了年紀的: She is very busy caring for two elderly relatives. 她在忙着照顧兩個年老的親戚。
- aged (formal
) very old: 指年邁的、年老的: Having aged relatives to stay in your house can be quite stressful. 年邁的親戚住在家裏有時壓力相當大。
- long-lived having a long life; lasting for a long time:
Everyone in my family is exceptionally long-lived. 我們家每個人都特别長壽。
- mature used as a polite or humorous way of saying that somebody is no longer young:
clothes for the mature woman 成年婦女的服裝
- a(n) old/elderly/aged/long-lived/mature man/woman
- a(n) old/elderly/aged/mature gentleman/lady/couple
- the agednoun [plural]
very old people (統稱)老人 services for the sick and the aged 爲病人和老人提供的服務