语法：年龄表达法.doc

初中英语语法——年龄表达法 “爆竹声中一岁除” 过年了，我们又长了一岁年龄，是人们日常生活中经常谈到的话题 英语中，年龄的表达方法也有很多种让我们来看看常用的年龄表达方法1、用句子表达年龄，常用的句型是：系动词+基数词+“years old” ，也可以省略“years old” ，即：系动词+基数词例如： Tom was ten years old when he came to our town. 汤姆十岁时来到我们镇 Bob will turn fourteen next week. 鲍勃下周十四岁了 When Clinton was four, his mother remarried Roger Clinton, a car dealer. 克林顿四岁的时候，他母亲再婚嫁给了一位汽车销售商罗杰·克林顿2、我们也可以用介词“at”表达年龄，可以是“at the age of”+ 基数词，或“at”+ 基数 词，或就用“at”+ 基数词例如： At the age of eighteen, Mary went to New York. 玛丽十八岁的时候去了纽约 My sister learned to dance at age six. 我妹妹四岁的时候学习了舞蹈。

Children go to school at six. 孩子们六岁上学3、介词“of”+ 基数词，可以放在名词后面表示年龄例如： As a boy of six, he can hardly understand it. 他只是个六岁的孩子，很难理解这件事 Jenny, a lovely girl of nine, comes from the United States. 珍妮，一个可爱的九岁女孩，来自于美国 She has a sister of sixteen. 她有一个十六岁的姐姐4、表示一个人大约几十岁时，可以用“in one’s”+ 几十岁的复数形式例如： He began to learn Russian when he was in his fifties. 他五十多岁开始学俄语 He was in his thirties when he moved to England. 他迁往英国的时候已经三十来岁了 When she was in her twenties, she loved to stay in the mountains alone for a few days. 她二十几岁时，喜欢在山里单独呆几天。

5、基数词-“year-old”构成复合形容词，要放在所修饰的词前面，中间有连字符相连，“year”用原形，不加“s” 例如： Anne, an 80-year-old artist, once told me about a 72-year-old friend of hers who kept swimming in winter. 八十岁的艺术家安曾和我谈到过她的以为七十二岁仍坚持冬泳的朋友 There she met Charlie, a 23-year-old college student. 他在那里遇见了查理，一个二十三岁的大学生练一练：用所给的词语完成句子A. an English teacher of thirty-six B. at the age of twenty-eight C. when she was in her twenties D. My seven-year-old daughter E. She was five years old F. At age sisteen G. he was 84 years old H. who were 100 years old1. She used to play football __________. 2. __________ went to the summer school. 3. David, __________, is now working at Beihai High School. 4. __________ when she first went to school.5. He had his own computer company __________. 6. ______, with a year and a half of schooling and $ 3 in his pocket, he moved to New York City. 7. Mr. Gregory Gale was one of the few people in England __________. 8. Ben Franklin died in 1790 when __________. Keys: 1. C 2. D 3. A 4. E 5. B 6. F 7. H 8. G。