"Age" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 shí dài age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) / CL:個|个[ge4]
 nián líng (a person's) age / CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4]
 nián dài a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL:個|个[ge4]
 nián jì age / CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4]
 shuāi lǎo to age / to deteriorate with age / old and weak
 shì dài for many generations / generation / era / age
 yī shì generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings)
 lǎo huà to age (of person or object) / becoming old
 nián huá years / time / age
 suì shu age (number of years old)
 biàn lǎo to grow old / to age / aging
 nián suì years of age / age
齿 kǒu chǐ mouth and teeth / enunciation / to articulate / diction / age (of cattle, horses etc)
 nián shì years of age / age
 fāng líng age (of a young woman)
 dài to substitute / to act on behalf of others / to replace / generation / dynasty / age / period / (historical) era / (geological) eon
 shì life / age / generation / era / world / lifetime / epoch / descendant / noble
 chén huà to age / to mature (wine, timber etc)
 jì order / discipline / age / era / period / to chronicle
 líng age / length of experience, membership etc
寿 shòu long life / old age / age / life / birthday / funerary
 gēng age / seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / seventh in order / letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 255° / hepta
 xiàn dài modern times / modern age / modern era
 dà gē eldest brother / big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself) / gang leader / boss
 lǎo dà old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang
 xìn xī huà informatization (the Information Age analog of industrialization)
 dāng dài the present age / the contemporary era
 cóng xiǎo from childhood / from a young age
 zhōng nián middle age
 chūn qiū spring and autumn / four seasons / year / a person's age / annals (used in book titles)
 ā yí maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL:個|个[ge4]
 lǎo nián elderly / old age / autumn of one's years
 nián xiàn age limit / fixed number of years
 dà shū eldest of father's younger brothers / uncle (term used to address a man about the age of one's father)
 xīn shí dài new age
 shèng shì a flourishing period / period of prosperity / a golden age
 xiǎo jiàng (in classical literature) young military officer of high rank for his age / (during the Cultural Revolution) young militant in the Red Guard / (in modern usage) rising star (in sport, politics etc)
 xiōng zhǎng elder brother / term of respect for a man of about the same age
 jīn shì this life / this age
 xiàn nián (a person's) current age
 Shí qì Shí dài Stone Age
 bó mǔ wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL:個|个[ge4]
 nián líng duàn age group
 zhōng nián entire year / throughout the year / age at death
 xìn xī shí dài information age
 bái tóu hoary head / old age
 tóng líng rén peer / one's contemporary / person of the same age
 tóng líng of the same age
 zhōng lǎo nián middle and old age
 dāng shì the present age / in office / the current office holder
 huáng jīn shí dài golden age
 ā gē (familiar) elder brother
 shì shì from age to age
 shì líng of age / of the appropriate age
 yù líng childbearing age
 xīn dīng new addition to a family (i.e. a birth) / a boy who has just come of age / (in a job etc) newcomer / novice
 xiǎng nián to live to the (ripe) age of
 lǎo líng old age / aging / aged / geriatric / the aged
 bù huò without doubt / with full self-confidence / forty years of age
退  age at retirement
 fǎn bǔ to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor
 bái tóu xié lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom) / to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part
 zǎo shuāi to age prematurely / premature senescence
寿 shòu zhōng zhèng qǐn to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life
 ér lì zhī nián the age of 30
 xué líng school age
 dà yí aunt (mother's eldest sister) / (respectful term of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
 lǎo qì héng qiū old and decrepit / proud of one's age and experience (idiom)
 jīng fēng infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms)
 jié fà (in former times) to bind one's hair on coming of age
 mù nián one's declining years / old age
 lǎo tài old and frail / decrepit / doddering / decrepitude / infirmities of old age
 qiū shuāng autumn frost / fig. white hair as sign of old age
 hūn líng length of married life / marriageable age / actual marrying age
 chéng rén lǐ coming of age ceremony
寿 gāo shòu longevity / venerable age / your venerable age?
 wèi lǎo xiān shuāi to age prematurely
 wǎn yù late childbirth / to have a child at a later age
 chuí lǎo approaching old age
 wàng nián jiāo friends despite the difference in age
 chén jì past events / relics from a former age / ruins
 xū suì one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) &ndash / In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]
 dǎng líng party standing / age of service to the Party
 bǎo dāo wèi lǎo treasure knife does not age (idiom) / old but still vigorous
 bàn lǎo xú niáng middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age
 wēi jìng dangerous situation / venerable old age
 yè luò guī gēn a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.
 guì gēng your age (honorific)
 bīng qī glacial epoch / ice age
 jī nián for a long time / over many years / old / advanced in age
 pò guā (of a girl) to lose one's virginity / to deflower a virgin / to reach the age of 16 / (of a man) to reach the age of 64
 nu:3 dà bù zhōng liú when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
 dǐng shèng qī flourishing age / golden age
 chuí mù zhī nián old age
 sī chūn qī age when girls start to develop feelings for the opposite sex / puberty
 ní teeth grown in old age
 xú niáng bàn lǎo middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age
 bái tóu dào lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom) / to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part
 hào shǒu cāng yán white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom) / decrepit old age
 lǎo dà tú shāng bēi vain regrets of old age (idiom)
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