older

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美[o?ld?r]

基本釋義

adj.
年長(zhǎng)的; 古老的(old的比較級(jí) )

實(shí)用例句

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

如果你等待,發(fā)生的只有變老。

金山詞霸 每日一句

Older mothers tend to be too idealistic about the pleasures of motherhood.

較年長(zhǎng)的母親往往對(duì)身為人母的樂(lè)趣過(guò)于理想化。

柯林斯例句

Some of the older telephones still only accept tokens.

一些較老式的電話機(jī)仍然只收代幣。

柯林斯例句

The judge thought he'd been led astray by older children.

法官認(rèn)為他已經(jīng)被那些年長(zhǎng)的孩子們帶壞了。

柯林斯例句

The children give her hell, particularly the older boys.

這些孩子讓她吃足了苦頭,特別是那些年齡大一點(diǎn)的男孩子。

柯林斯例句

When he got older I nicknamed him Little Alf.

當(dāng)他大一點(diǎn)時(shí),我給他起了個(gè)“小阿爾夫”的綽號(hào)。

柯林斯例句

There are plenty of plus points about being an older first-time mum.

年齡稍長(zhǎng)再做媽媽有很多好處。

柯林斯例句

She was about thirty, ten years older than the youngsters ragging her.

她大概有30歲,比那些嘲弄她的年輕人大10歲。

柯林斯例句

The older people had stopped being neighbourly to each other.

老人們彼此已不再友好相待。

柯林斯例句

The older you get the more distrustful you become.

年紀(jì)越大就越多疑。

柯林斯例句

Many of the older pitmen may never work again.

很多年紀(jì)更大的礦工也許再也不干活了。

柯林斯例句

The older people were left to carry on as best they could.

年紀(jì)大一點(diǎn)的人被留下來(lái),奮力堅(jiān)持。

柯林斯例句

An older woman, pink-cheeked and tweedy, appeared in the doorway.

一位面頰緋紅、一副鄉(xiāng)下貴族打扮的老婦人出現(xiàn)在門口。

柯林斯例句

Underage youths can obtain alcohol from their older friends.

未到法定年齡的青少年可以從年齡較大的朋友那里弄到酒。

柯林斯例句

The older child should be able to prepare a simple meal.

那個(gè)年紀(jì)稍大的孩子應(yīng)當(dāng)會(huì)做一頓簡(jiǎn)單的飯菜。

柯林斯例句

真題例句

Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

Whereas older generations are sometimes reluctant to adopt new technologies, driverless cars promise real value to these age groups in particular.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travelrelated technologies than older onesWhen it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

That is, generally, younger people tend to outnumber older people on the front end of a technological shift.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use-cases for driverless cars.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

They have more older students than before.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

And in my position as a professor at three different colleges, the actual problems in educating our young people and older students have deepened, while the number of people hired—not to teach but to hold meetings—has increased significantly.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

But this doesn't necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of this survey shouldn't surprise anyone: 52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Many professors require that their students use only the latest versions in the classroom, essentially rendering older texts unusable.

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

The popular notion that older people need less sleep than younger adults is a myth, scientists said yesterday.

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

psychiatrist (心理醫(yī)生) at the University of California, San Diego, said older people are more likely to suffer from broken sleep, while younger people are better at sleeping efficiently straight through the night

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

More sleep in old age, however, is associated with better health, and most older people would feel better and more alert if they slept for longer periods, he said.

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

It's definitely a myth that older people need less sleep

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

The more healthy an older adult is, the more they sleep like they did when they were younger.

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

Our data suggests that older adults would benefit from continuing to get as much sleep as they did in their 30s

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

Linda Waite of the University of Chicago has found that a married older man with heart disease can expect to live nearly four years longer than an unmarried man with a healthy heart.

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

older men should quit smoking to stay healthy

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

Fortunately, there are a vast number of relatively simple changes that can green older homes, from historic ones like Lincoln's Cottage to your own postwar home.

出自-2010年6月閱讀原文

The study's authors, Joanne Wood and John Lee of the University of Waterloo and Elaine Perunovic of the University of New Brunswick, begin by citing older research showing that when people get feedback which they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better

出自-2010年6月閱讀原文

They are little lessons which older people of a culture pass down to the younger people to teach them about life.

出自-2011年12月聽(tīng)力原文

But if you know about past values, it helps you to understand the present and many of the older values are still strong today

出自-2011年12月聽(tīng)力原文

The earlier neglect of saving, however, makes it difficult not to work when you are older.

出自-2010年12月聽(tīng)力原文

A quantitative- based one, for example, is unlikely to be sent home, where one could ask their older brothers and sisters to help.

2017年12月四級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

About 80% of people 65 years and older have living children, and about 90% of them have frequent contact with their children.

2016年6月四級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

But a new study finds that the risk of divorce among older couples rises when the wife——not the husband一becomes seriously ill.

2019年6月四級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children.

2016年6月四級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

I want to make sure that older adults are still able to enjoy their old age, and that they're not spending time in hospital with infections, feeling unwell and being generally weak.

2019年6月四級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

In most of our work, when we're looking at older adults who've got an illness, we always have to have health controls.

2019年6月四級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

Many of the older pieces are equipment sent to learn about the moon.

2018年12月四級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

Offering support services to spouses caring for their other halves may reduce marital stress and prevent divorce at older ages, she said.

2019年6月四級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

Older drivers and visually- or physically-impaired people would gain a new level of freedom.

2018年12月四級(jí)真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

Older people and women made the mistake slightly more often, but that may be because grandparents have more grandchildren to mix up than parents have children.

2019年6月四級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation, ?familiar with personal computers and the Internet, and the older generation, ?accustomed to an industrial society.

2015年12月四級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

The survey finds that, in spite of the dramatic gains women have made in educational attainment and labor force participation in recent decades, young women view this as a man's world—just as middle-aged and older women do.

2018年6月四級(jí)真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travel- related technologies than older ones.

2016年6月四級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

This research may be biased, however, as ill health often makes older people more dependent and thereby increases contact with family members.

2016年6月四級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

We know that as we get older, it's easier for us to get infections, so older adults have more chances of falling ill.

2019年6月四級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

When people live longer, they are not only older for longer, but also younger for longer.

2019年6月四級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

When we ask teens to choose a hero, they usually select an older family member rather than a remote public figure.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle changes can prevent cognitive decline in older adults.

出自-2016年6月聽(tīng)力原文

In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.

出自-2016年12月聽(tīng)力原文

Professor of Sociology at WashingtonUniversity, has written numerous articles and books on the issues facing older Americans in our graying society for the past 15 years.

出自-2015年12月聽(tīng)力原文

With older populations, they resist change.

出自-2013年12月閱讀原文

Until the early 1990s nobody much thought about whole populations getting older.

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

Employers still need to be persuaded that older workers are worth holding on to

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe's most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones.

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

Older societies may be less innovative and more strongly disinclined to take risks than younger ones

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

By 2025 at the latest, about half the voters in America and most of those in western European countries will be over 50—and older people turn out to vote in much greater number than younger ones.

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

Academic studies have found no evidence so far that older voters have used their power at the ballot box to push for policies that specifically benefit them, though if in future there are many more of them they might start doing so

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

After all, older people themselves mostly have families.

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

Even so, the shift in the centre of gravity to older age groups is bound to have a profound effect on societies, not just economically and politically but in all sorts of other ways too

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

The reason why employers are unwilling to keep older workers is that younger workers are readily available.

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

Compared with younger ones, older societies are less inclined to be innovative and take risks than younger ones

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

The predicted intergenerational warfare is unlikely because most of the older people themselves mostly have families.

出自-2010年12月閱讀原文

In a study of older people with sisters and brothers, psychologist Debra Gold of the Duke Center for the study of aging and human development found that about 20% said they were hostile or indifferent to ward their sisters and brothers.

出自-2014年6月聽(tīng)力原文

A man who had recently reconciled with his brother told Gold there's something that lets older people to put aside bad deeds of the past and focus a little on what we need now, especially when it's sisters and brothers

出自-2014年6月聽(tīng)力原文

What does the study by Debra Gold find about older people?

出自-2014年6月聽(tīng)力原文

What did the man who had recently reconciled with his brother tell Debra Gold about older people

出自-2014年6月聽(tīng)力原文

They are little lessons which older people of a culture pass down to the younger people to teach them about life.

出自-2011年12月聽(tīng)力原文

But if you know about past values, it helps you to understand the present and many of the older values are still strong today

出自-2011年12月聽(tīng)力原文

At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Bottom line, if you think you need more protein in your diet, consider these questions: Are you an extreme athlete; are you recovering from injury or surgery; or are you 60 years or older?

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Care for older people faced persistent criticism as these trends became apparent.

2018年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

In a 2005 study, psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his co-author, psychologist Margo Gardner, then at Temple, divided 6 people into three age groups: young adolescents, with a mean age of 14; older adolescents, with a mean age of 19

2018年6月六級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Of course, as most of us forget memories from our first few years as we grow older, this early long-turn memories will likely be lost in subsequent years.

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

Older adolescents scored about 50 percent higher on an index of risky driving when their peers were in the room — and the driving of early adolescents was fully twice as reckless when other young teens were around.

2018年6月六級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Older adults need to take in more protein to keep their muscles strong.

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

simultaneously, the number of sick older people grew.

2018年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

Starr recently conducted a small study that found that adding extra protein foods to the diet of obese older individuals who were trying to lose weight strengthened their muscles.

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

The aim was to enable older people to remain in their own homes for as long as possible, but this increased concern about the lack of coordination between free health and paid-for social car.

2018年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach $30 billion by next year, and startups want in on the action.

2019年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

The startup's product, SentabTV, enables older adults who may not be comfortable with computers to access email, video chat and social media using just their televisions and a remote control.

2019年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

This required local governments to provide residential accommodation for older people and supervise care homes run by independent organizations.

2018年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

Today's crisis in care for older people in England has two main causes.

2018年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

Well, we'd been led to believe that we would encounter a good proportion of this older, thicker, technically multi-year ice that's been around for a few years and just gets thicker and thicker.

2016年6月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽(tīng)力 Section C

Across Britain, burnt toast will be served to mothers in bed this morning as older sons and daughters rush to deliver their supermarket bunches of flowers.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

After all, many older people don't begin to experience physical and mental decline until after age 75.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)廣東卷 完形填空 原文

As I got a little older, I began to understand what my dad really meant.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

As our society grows old, we need the contributions of our older citizens.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)廣東卷 完形填空 原文

At first the price of single copies was seldom a penny-usually two or three cents was charged-and some of the older well-known papers charged five or six cents.

2019年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Many studies show that older parents—today's grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Fares for the senior /disabled customers senior citizens 65 and older and disabled customers may ride for half the regular fare.

2014年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

He got an older model than he had expected.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 選項(xiàng)

However, there's only so much that prep books, websites, and older friends can teach.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

However, those in the 10 to 12 age group were "concerned with how many people like their posts", suggesting a "need" for social recognition that gets stronger the older they become.

2018年高考英語(yǔ)江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Keeping older drivers on the road.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項(xiàng)

Led by professor Phil Blythe, the Newcastle team are developing in-vehicle technologies for older drivers which they hope could help them to continue driving into later life.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

My older students say it makes them feel young.

2018年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

On the whole, our population is getting older.

2015年高考英語(yǔ)廣東卷 完形填空 原文

Phil Blythe explains: "For many older people, particularly those living alone or in the country, driving is important for preserving their independence, giving them the freedom to get out and about without having to rely on others."

2017年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Research shows that giving up driving is one of the key reasons for a fall in health and well-being among older people, leading to them becoming more isolated隔絕 and inactive.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

She told me that some of the children lived with an older lady in a shelter while others slept on the streets.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)上海卷 語(yǔ)法填空 A 原文

The intelligent transport team at newcastle university have turned an electric car into a mobile laboratory named "drivelab" in order to understand the challenges faced by older drivers and to discover where the key stress points are.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

The Jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.

2017年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

You may have the opportunity to make your biggest difference when you're older.

2016年高考英語(yǔ)四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

And picking crops is hard on older bodies.

2019年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

It's not as hard for them to transform their thought processes as it is for older students.

2016年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The apartments in the elegant towers mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller-two-bedroom units under 1, 000 square feet-than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.

2011年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The other issue is that many children-especially older ones-may base their real estate knowledge on HGTV shows, said Aaron Norris of The Norris Group in riverside, Calif.

2019年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Trade publications counselled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a "third stepping stone" between infant wear and older kids' clothes.

2012年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public servi

2016年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

英英釋義

Adjective
  • 1. advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables);

    "aged members of the society"

    "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"

    "senior citizen"

  • 2. older brother or sister;

    "big sister"

  • 3. used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son;

    "Bill Adams, Sr."

  • 4. old in experience;

    "an old offender"

    "the older soldiers"

同義詞辨析

elder, older

這兩個(gè)形容詞都表示"年長(zhǎng)的,年齡較大的"之意。

  • elder是old的比較級(jí)。指家庭成員中年齡較長(zhǎng)的,或指兩人中年齡較長(zhǎng)的。
  • older也是old的比較級(jí),指年齡較大、較老,指物時(shí)作"較舊的"解。

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