Forties是什么意思？

Forties

• n. 四十( forty的名词复数 )，（尤指白天）打盹，午睡；

例句

• Her brothers were both hefty men in their forties. 她的两个兄弟都四十多岁,身高体壮。
• Arguably the whole concept of hypertext - as - technology really started back the forties. 超文本即是科技这个具争议性的观念始于四十年代.
• Her mother had bundled all her Forties clothes up and burnt them. 她母亲把她四十几岁时穿的所有衣服都包起来烧掉了。
• It is most often diagnosed in women in their thirties and forties, although I've seen it in many younger women, as well... 这种病一般多发于三四十岁的女性，但我也见过许多更年轻的女性患这种病。
• ...a quartet of local women in their mid-forties. 由4名45岁左右的当地妇女组成的小组
• Eddie was a short squat fellow in his forties with thinning hair. 埃迪四十多岁，矮矮胖胖的，头发日渐稀疏。
• He was a big man in his forties; once he had a lot of muscle but now he was running to seed. 他 40 多岁时很魁梧，曾经肌肉发达，但如今身体逐渐衰弱了。
• She became quite a notable director in the thirties and forties. 她在三四十年代成了一位名导演。
• He was in his early forties, tall and blond with bright blue eyes... 他40出头儿，高高的个子，金黄头发，一双天蓝色眼睛。
• I went on competing till I was in my middle forties. 我继续参赛，直到45岁左右。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• NUM
  (数字)40
  Forty is the number 40.
• N-PLURAL
  四十多，四十几(指从40至49的数字)
  When you talk about the forties, you are referring to numbers between 40 and 49. For example, if you are in your forties, you are aged between 40 and 49. If the temperature is in the forties, the temperature is between 40 and 49 degrees.
  例句
  He was a big man in his forties, smartly dressed in a suit and tie. 他是一个四十多岁的高大男子，穿西装打领带，看上去很精神。
• N-PLURAL
  二十世纪四十年代(指从 1940 年至 1949 年)
  The forties is the decade between 1940 and 1949.
  例句
  Steel cans were introduced sometime during the forties. 钢罐是 20 世纪 40 年代时开始使用的。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. the time of life between 40 and 50
  2. the decade from 1940 to 1949