AGE

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Traducere în limba română

age I. substantiv

1. vârstă; etate; ani; vechime;

he is 30 years of age are 30 de ani;

this wine lacks age vinul acesta nu are vechime;

what age are you? ce vârstă ai?;

what age would / could you take him to be? ce vârstă îi dai?;

he is twice my age e de două ori mai mare decât mine;

at the age of la vârsta de;

age of consent vârsta însurătorii sau a măritişului;

age of discretion vârsta de la 14 ani în sus (când omul este socotit răspunzător de actele sale);

awkward age vârsta de trecere / de tranziţie;

to be of age a fi major;

to be under age a fi minor;

to come of age a deveni major;

full age majorat (în Anglia, la 21 de ani);

to be over age to do smth. a fi prea bătran pentru (a face) ceva;

to be of an age to marry a fi de vârsta însurătorii;

to be (sau to act) one's age a se purta potrivit vârstei, a se purta aşa cum şade bine unui om de vârsta respectivă; a fi serios;

middle age vârstă mijlocie;

with age cu anii;

she carries / bears her age well se ţine bine pentru anii ei;

he doesn't look his age pare mai tânăr decât îl arată vârsta;

the prime of one's age floarea vârstei;

he began to be forty years of age mergea pe patruzeci (de ani).

2. generaţie;

the present age generaţia de azi.

3. vârstă, perioadă, epocă; ev, eră;

the golden ageepoca de aur;

the age of iron vârsta de fier;

Ice Age perioada glaciară;

Middle Age evul mediu;

Shakespeare's Age epoca lui Shakespeare;

throughout all ages în toate timpurile / epocile;

in our age, in the age we live in în epoca noastră / în care trăim.

4. (mai ales pl.) veşnicie, car de ani, veacuri;

I have not seen you for ages nu te-am văzut de un car de ani;

(fam.) a dog's / amer. a coon's age o veşnicie.

5. bătrâneţe;

the infirmities of age metehnele bătrâneţii;

she lived to a good old age a trăit până la adânci bătrâneţe;

(fam.) he is a great age e tare bătrân;

a green old age bătrâneţe fericită.

age II. verb A. intranzitiv

a îmbătrâni, a încărunţi, a deveni bătrân.

age II. verb B. tranzitiv

1. a îmbătrâni, a face bătrân.

2. a maturiza.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

At age 14, I was in the hospital for 11 months without interruption, and there would be more surgeries and three years of intense physical therapy to help me learn to walk again.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

The researchers tested the participants for peanut allergy at age 5.

(Peanut Consumption in Infancy Lowers Peanut Allergy, NIH)

It’s hard to say his age.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Thy very strong sons and thine old-age hunger?"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Big for your age at that, with muscles like a horse.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

You may not be aware that the deduction of a man’s age from his writing is one which has been brought to considerable accuracy by experts.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His household consisted of his wife, his daughter, aged twenty, and two female servants.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her age was not more than forty.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It appeared to be a handsome young man, about five and twenty years of age.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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