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单词 of an age to
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of an age to
b. of an age to: at the age when one is old enough, or is expected, to (do or be something).
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adverb] > at a specific age to do something
of an age to1664
1664 E. Waller et al. tr. P. Corneille Pompey i. iii. 9 My self though Young Yet of an Age [Fr. dans un aage] to make that Beauty known Which Heav'n had lent me.
1760 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XX. xix. 342 The duke's only daughter..should espouse, as soon as he was of an age to marry, the Infant Don Henry.
1785 Ann. Reg. 1783 Characters 14/2 The females [of Sumatra], before they are of an age to be clothed have..a modesty-piece.
1868 C. Collingwood Rambles Naturalist i. 19 Children of an age to toddle about..are often tethered by a string to the middle of the boat.
1916 G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion i. 9 The men, if of an age to bear arms, will be given weapons to defend themselves..against the Imperial Gladiators.
1961 C. G. L. Du Cann Love-lives Charles Dickens x. viii. 189 The eldest boy Charles was of an age to be flying off and building a nest of his own.
2010 Independent 27 Oct. 27/2 The audience..[was] rich in frontline military..experience, and of an age to be Atlanticist by temperament.
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