单词 | mid-twenties |
释义 | > as lemmasmid-twenties b. With the plural of numerals denoting tens, forming compounds denoting the middle numbers in a range, esp. the middle years of a decade (of a century or of a person's life) or the middle temperatures in a range of degrees, e.g. mid-twenties, mid-thirties, (also mid-20s, mid-30s), etc. Cf. mid-teen n. ΚΠ 1898 National Rev. Aug. 843 In the mid-sixties, abundant experiment had seemed to show that [etc.]. 1900 Daily News 1 June 6/4 The progress which has been made since the mid-nineties in the fostering of Irish not only as a literary, but as a spoken language. 1955 ‘C. H. Rolph’ Women of Streets iv. 56 A large rough Geordie woman in her mid-thirties. 1967 Listener 3 Aug. 129 The LPs that Sinatra began bringing out in the mid-Fifties. 1975 Times 5 July 7/1 Menotti's staging of Don Pasquale..has been set in the mid-thirties. 1989 Sound Choice Autumn 63/1 Mid-80s found Joo..heading one of the first Christian punk fanzines. 1994 Aircraft Illustr. Apr. 38/3 During the Summer months..the temperatures in southern Italy can exceed the mid thirties centigrade. 1999 N.Y. Mag. 13 Dec. 63/1 Crowd control..from 43rd to as high as 59th Street on Seventh Avenue and from 42nd to the mid-Fifties on Broadway. 2000 N.Y. Times 9 Apr. xi. 6/5 We're seeing younger and younger people, many of them in their mid-20's, buying multimillion-dollar properties. < as lemmas |
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