单词 | middle years |
释义 | > as lemmasmiddle years middle years n. the years in the middle of a person's life; middle age. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [noun] > middle age middle lifec1330 middle agec1400 mid-agec1450 middle eldc1450 middle yearsc1450 meridian1607 a certain age1748 mid-life1818 middle term1839 c1450 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 20 The myspende tyme of all my mydle yeris, When lust with fors was fresh yn that sesoun. a1577 G. Gascoigne Wks. (1587) Ep. A man of middle yeares who hath to his cost experimented the vanities of youth. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 452 Whether in youth or middle yeares or old age. 1857 Southern Q. Rev. Feb. 373 His middle years were passed in communion with Christian divines and mystics. 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby iii. 59 I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years. 1985 P. Abrahams View from Coyaba iv. i. 216 For a person to change that much in her middle years is something special. < as lemmas |
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