elderly
adj. 上了年纪的；过了中年的；稍老的
adj.
上了年纪的；过了中年的；较老的；
n.
老人；
双语释义
adj.(形容词)上了年纪的,中年以上的 rather old; past middle age
英英释义
elderly[ 'eldəli ]
n.people who are old collectively
同义词：aged
adj.advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
"elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"
同义词：agedoldersenior
词组短语
elderly persons priority scheme共享颐年优先配屋计划
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
Vicious thugs attacked an elderly man.
歹徒们袭击了一个老大爷。
Many elderly people live an idle life.
许多老年人过着悠闲的生活。
I appreciate their trust in elderly men like me.
感谢大家对我们这些老头子的信任。
In the presence of elderly visitors our son was a model of decorum.
我们的儿子在来访的长辈面前彬彬有礼。
He handed the elderly woman across the street.
他搀扶这个年长的妇女穿过街道。
权威例句
High-risk elderly patients PROSPER from cholesterol-lowering therapyDecision-making in elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis: why are so many denied surgery?
Vitamin D3 and Calcium to Prevent Hip Fractures in Elderly Women — NEJM
The timed "Up & Go": a test of basic functional mobility for frail elderly persons
Vitamin D Supplementation and Fracture Incidence in Elderly Persons: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial
Dietary antioxidant flavonoids and risk of coronary heart disease: the Zutphen Elderly Study
CHOP chemotherapy plus rituximab compared with CHOP alone in elderly patients with diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma.
Homocysteine, Folate and Cognition in a Large Community-Based Sample of Elderly People – The 3C Dijon Study
Relationship of C-Reactive Protein to Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly Results From the Cardiovascular Health Study and...
The Association Between Quantitative Measures of Dementia and of Senile Change in the Cerebral Grey Matter of Elderly Subjects
elderly (adj.)
"bordering on old age, somewhat old," 1610s, from elder + -ly (1). Now, generally, "old." Old English ealdorlic meant "chief, princely, excellent, authentic." Old English also had related eldernliche "of old time," literally "forefatherly."
1. The application must be usable by the elderly and others who have difficulty reading small text.
应用程序必须对老年人和其他阅读小文本时有困难的人是可用的。
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2. We make this mistake when we refuse to see the needs for intimacy even in the most debilitated elderly.
我们犯这种错误是因为我们抗拒看到亲近的需要，甚至是出于最虚弱的老人。
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3. Also, elderly inmates without family or community ties have virtually no chance of parole, which is granted only for those with a reliable guardian.
此外，没有家庭或者社会关系的老年犯人几乎没有假释的机会，虽然假释只需要一名可靠的监护人。
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4. Time and timing: One of the greatest challenges people in midlife face in their dealings with the elderly is to slow down and find the time to be fully present.
时间和安排时间：中年的人们在处理他们与老年人相关的事情时一个最大的挑战就是放慢脚步并找出时间集中注意关注当前。
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5. About half of them are children, and another 8% are elderly.
大约有一半的领取者是儿童，8%的领取者是老人。
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6. Consider covering sharp furniture edges and corners with a cushioning material, especially if a child or elderly adult lives in your home.
考虑在家具尖锐的边缘和拐角处套一个软垫子，特别是当你的家里有小孩或者老人的时候。
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7. His search through theliterature for the intersection of "lesbian or gay, " "ethnicminority, " and "elderly" yielded all of six published articles.
他通过“男女同性恋”、“少数民族”和“老年”为交集的文献搜索，写了总共六篇发表的论文。
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8. One day—I think it was the day after the attacks, actually—I went into a bodega to buy something, and there was an elderly woman ahead of me.
某一天——我记得应该就是袭击发生之后的第二天——我走进一家小杂货店买东西，排队结账时我前面有个老年妇女。
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9. The conservative camp, which includes many elderly people, argues that the country should simply learn to live with less.
保守派阵营，包括许多老年人主张，简单说来国家应该学着利用更少的资源生活。
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10. Many in the medical world recommend it for the elderly, but the spread of the flu is done by contact with people. Therefore, everyone should consider getting the flu shot.
医学界众多专家建议老人采用这种措施，但流感是通过与人接触传播的，因此每个人都应该考虑注射流感疫苗。
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11. Strangely, the new H1N1 strain of virus does not strike the elderly anything like as much as seasonal flu does.
奇怪的是，这种新型H1N1流感病毒并不像季节性流感那样对老年人有什么伤害。
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12. The book is a way to "fish money from the pockets of the angry youth and angry elderly, " wrote one critic in the China Youth Daily.
《中国青年报》的一位评论家写到：这本书是“从愤怒青年和愤怒的老人口袋中赚钱”的一种方法。
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13. Vaccinating children may not only reduce their disease burden but it may also reduce transmission to the elderly and others at increased risk.
为儿童接种疫苗不但可减少他们的疾病负担，而且还可减少向老年人及风险较大的其他人传播疾病。
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14. In Arizona, for example, 83% of the elderly are white and 42% of those under 25 are Hispanic.
例如，在亚利桑那州，有83%的老年人是白种人，42%的25岁以下的年轻人是西班牙人。
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15. But we are seeing extremely high numbers among white males and the elderly voting for Republicans," he said.
但是我们看到白人男性和老年选民中有非常多的人会投票给共和党人。
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16. But over 90 percent of the deaths from seasonal flu are among the elderly, while the swine flu mostly affects the young.
不过死亡人员当中90%以上是老年人。而猪流感造成的死亡人员大部分是青年人。
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17. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair.
一天，在礼品店的收银机那儿工作时，我看到一对老年夫妇推着一个坐轮椅的小女孩走了进来。
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18. If the average retirement age were raised to near 70 to qualify for retirement and elderly health benefits, retirees would still have more absolute years of retirement than they did 90 years ago.
如果平均退休年龄提高到70 岁左右，以此来保证退休金和老年人医疗补助，退休者依然会比90年前享有更长的退休时间。
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19. The changing nature of the family, with fewer children who themselves often move away, has increased the prospect of elderly isolation.
家庭性质的改变，儿女很少并且他们经常会搬走自己住，这就增加了老年孤立的可能。
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20. For seasonal influenza, around 90% of deaths occur in the elderly.
90%以上的季节性流感死亡病例发生在老人中。
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21. For seasonal influenza, around 90% of deaths occur in the elderly.
90%以上的季节性流感死亡病例发生在老人中。
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22. Compare old, aged, elderly, ancient and antique.
试比较old、 aged、 elderly、 ancient、 antique.
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
23. Chiefly, I ask you to remember to write to your elderly mother.
首先,我要你记住给你年老的母亲去信。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
24. His elderly mother was always taking much thought for him.
他年迈的母亲时刻惦念着他。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
25. The local government listed him as an elderly person of no family.
当地政府把他列为孤寡老人。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
26. The elderly and other sight-impaired users require larger and more readable type faces.
图7-3 视觉语言研究被用来探索不同的抽象于且有些独立于交互设计的视觉风格。
-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓
27. Vicious thugs attacked an elderly man.
歹徒们袭击了一个老大爷.
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
28. One of the biggest problems for the elderly is lack of income.
缺少收入是老年人最大的问题之一。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
29. Arthritis is a common complaint among the elderly.
关节炎是老年人的一种常见
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
30. Britan was now an elderly man.
这里布里安已经相当年迈。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
31. A large majority of elderly Americans depend solely on social security income.
大多数上了年纪的美国人仰仗社会保险金过活。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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