the period of your life when you are neither young nor old, between the ages of about 45 and 60 中年（45 岁到 60 岁左右） a pleasant woman in early/late middle age 刚到中年的／接近老年的亲切和蔼的女人
Collocations The ages of lifeThe ages of life 年龄段 Childhood/youth 童年／青年时期 - be born and raised/bred in Oxford; into a wealthy/middle-class family
- have a happy/an unhappy/a tough childhood
有幸福／不幸／艰苦的童年 - grow up in a musical family/in an orphanage/on a farm
成长于音乐之家／孤儿院／农场 - be/grow up an only child (= with no brothers or sisters)
是独生子 - reach/hit/enter/go through adolescence/puberty
进入／经历青春期 - be in your teens/early twenties/mid-twenties/late twenties
十几岁；二十出头；二十五岁左右；将近三十岁 - undergo/experience physical/psychological changes
经历生理／心理变化 - give in to/succumb to/resist peer pressure
屈服于／顶住同辈的压力 - assert your independence/individuality
维护独立／个性
Adulthood 成年 - leave school/university/home
中学／大学毕业；离家 - go out to work (at sixteen)
（16 岁）投身工作 - get/find a job/partner
找到工作／伴侣 - be/get engaged/married
订婚；结婚 - have/get a wife/husband/mortgage/steady job
有妻子／丈夫／按揭贷款／稳定的工作 - settle down and have kids/children/a family
安定下来并生儿育女 - begin/start/launch/build a career (in politics/science/the music industry)
开始（政治／科学／音乐）职业生涯 - prove (to be)/represent/mark/reach a turning point in your life/career
最终成为／代表／标志／达到某人人生／某人职业生涯的转折点 - reach/be well into/settle into middle age
进入／安度中年 - have/suffer/go through a midlife crisis
经历中年危机 - take/consider early retirement
提前退休；考虑提前退休 - approach/announce/enjoy your retirement
临近／宣布／享受退休
Old age 老年 - have/see/spend time with your grandchildren
有孙辈；与孙辈共度时光 - take up/pursue/develop a hobby
开始／追求／培养一种爱好 - get/receive/draw/collect/live on a pension
得到／提取／领取退休金；靠退休金生活 - approach/save for/die from old age
临近晚年；存钱养老；老死 - live to a ripe old age
高寿 - reach the grand old age of 102/23 (often ironic)
活到 102／23 岁高龄（常作反语） - be/become/be getting/be going senile (often ironic)
变得衰老（常作反语） - die (peacefully)/pass away in your sleep/after a brief illness
在睡梦中／患病不久（平静地）离开人世
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesb2He mellowed in middle age. 步入中年后他变得成熟起来。 He settled into comfortable middle age. 他过上了安逸的中年生活。 She had her first child well into middle age. 她初为人母时早已步入了中年。 a bald man approaching middle age 年近中年的秃顶男人
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- early
- late
- approach
- enter
- hit
- …
- spread
- during middle age
- in middle age
- through middle age
- …
- well into middle age
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