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单词 old age
释义
old age
1. uncountable noun [oft poss NOUN]
Your old age is the period of years towards the end of your life.
They worry about how they will support themselves in their old age.
In old age the two men wrote each other wistful letters.
Synonyms: declining years, age, senility, advancing years  
2. uncountable noun
Old age is the quality or state of being old and near the end of one's life.
He is unable to travel much because of old age.
Quotations:
I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.
I regret a little, would change still less
Robert BrowningAndrea del Sarto
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Dylan ThomasDo not go gentle into that good night
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a manLeon TrotskyDiary in Exile
If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myselfEubie Blake
Translations:
Chinese: 晚年
Japanese: 老年期
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