"Ages" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yōu yōu lasting for ages / long drawn out / remote in time or space / unhurried / a great number (of events) / preposterous / pensive
 xǔ jiǔ for a long time / for ages
 hòu dài descendant / progeny / posterity / later ages / later generations
 qiān gǔ for all eternity / throughout all ages / eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
 zhōng shì jì medieval / Middle Ages
 zhōng gǔ medieval / Middle Ages / Chinese middle antiquity, 3rd to 9th centuries, including Sui and Tang Dynasties / Middle (of a language, e.g. Middle English) / used / second-hand
 wàn shì all ages
 dì sì jì fourth period / quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)
 qiān qiū wàn dài throughout the ages
 xī huáng shàng rén lit. a person before the legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲[Fu2 Xi1] / person from ages immemorial / fig. untroubled person
 wàn dài qiān qiū after innumerable ages
 Zhèng rén zhēng nián Men of Zheng fighting over their respective ages (idiom) / a futile quarrel
 nán nu:3 lǎo shào men, women, young and old / all kinds of people / people of all ages
 wáng yì nonextant / lost to the ages
 biāo bǐng qiān gǔ to shine through the ages (idiom)
 yǒu nián tou for donkey's years / for ages
 hún máng the dark ages before civilization / limitless reaches / vague and confused
 shì hūn qī ages suitable for getting married
 Hēi àn Shí dài Dark Ages
  Strategy for a Society for All Ages
 lǎo xiǎo lǎo xiǎo (coll.) as one ages, one becomes more and more like a child
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