older

英[\'əʊldər]
美[oʊldər]

基本释义

adj.
年长的; 古老的(old的比较级 )

实用例句

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

如果你等待,发生的只有变老。

金山词霸 每日一句

Older mothers tend to be too idealistic about the pleasures of motherhood.

较年长的母亲往往对身为人母的乐趣过于理想化。

柯林斯例句

Some of the older telephones still only accept tokens.

一些较老式的电话机仍然只收代币。

柯林斯例句

The judge thought he'd been led astray by older children.

法官认为他已经被那些年长的孩子们带坏了。

柯林斯例句

The children give her hell, particularly the older boys.

这些孩子让她吃足了苦头,特别是那些年龄大一点的男孩子。

柯林斯例句

When he got older I nicknamed him Little Alf.

当他大一点时,我给他起了个“小阿尔夫”的绰号。

柯林斯例句

There are plenty of plus points about being an older first-time mum.

年龄稍长再做妈妈有很多好处。

柯林斯例句

She was about thirty, ten years older than the youngsters ragging her.

她大概有30岁,比那些嘲弄她的年轻人大10岁。

柯林斯例句

The older people had stopped being neighbourly to each other.

老人们彼此已不再友好相待。

柯林斯例句

The older you get the more distrustful you become.

年纪越大就越多疑。

柯林斯例句

Many of the older pitmen may never work again.

很多年纪更大的矿工也许再也不干活了。

柯林斯例句

The older people were left to carry on as best they could.

年纪大一点的人被留下来,奋力坚持。

柯林斯例句

An older woman, pink-cheeked and tweedy, appeared in the doorway.

一位面颊绯红、一副乡下贵族打扮的老妇人出现在门口。

柯林斯例句

Underage youths can obtain alcohol from their older friends.

未到法定年龄的青少年可以从年龄较大的朋友那里弄到酒。

柯林斯例句

The older child should be able to prepare a simple meal.

那个年纪稍大的孩子应当会做一顿简单的饭菜。

柯林斯例句

真题例句

Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Whereas older generations are sometimes reluctant to adopt new technologies, driverless cars promise real value to these age groups in particular.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travelrelated technologies than older onesWhen it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

That is, generally, younger people tend to outnumber older people on the front end of a technological shift.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use-cases for driverless cars.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

They have more older students than before.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

And in my position as a professor at three different colleges, the actual problems in educating our young people and older students have deepened, while the number of people hired—not to teach but to hold meetings—has increased significantly.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

But this doesn't necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of this survey shouldn't surprise anyone: 52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Many professors require that their students use only the latest versions in the classroom, essentially rendering older texts unusable.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

The popular notion that older people need less sleep than younger adults is a myth, scientists said yesterday.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

psychiatrist (心理医生) at the University of California, San Diego, said older people are more likely to suffer from broken sleep, while younger people are better at sleeping efficiently straight through the night

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

More sleep in old age, however, is associated with better health, and most older people would feel better and more alert if they slept for longer periods, he said.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

It's definitely a myth that older people need less sleep

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

The more healthy an older adult is, the more they sleep like they did when they were younger.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Our data suggests that older adults would benefit from continuing to get as much sleep as they did in their 30s

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Linda Waite of the University of Chicago has found that a married older man with heart disease can expect to live nearly four years longer than an unmarried man with a healthy heart.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

older men should quit smoking to stay healthy

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Fortunately, there are a vast number of relatively simple changes that can green older homes, from historic ones like Lincoln's Cottage to your own postwar home.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

The study's authors, Joanne Wood and John Lee of the University of Waterloo and Elaine Perunovic of the University of New Brunswick, begin by citing older research showing that when people get feedback which they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

They are little lessons which older people of a culture pass down to the younger people to teach them about life.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

But if you know about past values, it helps you to understand the present and many of the older values are still strong today

出自-2011年12月听力原文

The earlier neglect of saving, however, makes it difficult not to work when you are older.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

A quantitative- based one, for example, is unlikely to be sent home, where one could ask their older brothers and sisters to help.

2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

About 80% of people 65 years and older have living children, and about 90% of them have frequent contact with their children.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

But a new study finds that the risk of divorce among older couples rises when the wife——not the husband一becomes seriously ill.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

I want to make sure that older adults are still able to enjoy their old age, and that they're not spending time in hospital with infections, feeling unwell and being generally weak.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

In most of our work, when we're looking at older adults who've got an illness, we always have to have health controls.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Many of the older pieces are equipment sent to learn about the moon.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Offering support services to spouses caring for their other halves may reduce marital stress and prevent divorce at older ages, she said.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Older drivers and visually- or physically-impaired people would gain a new level of freedom.

2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Older people and women made the mistake slightly more often, but that may be because grandparents have more grandchildren to mix up than parents have children.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

The greatest gap, however, is between the Net-generation,  familiar with personal computers and the Internet, and the older generation,  accustomed to an industrial society.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

The survey finds that, in spite of the dramatic gains women have made in educational attainment and labor force participation in recent decades, young women view this as a man's world—just as middle-aged and older women do.

2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travel- related technologies than older ones.

2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

This research may be biased, however, as ill health often makes older people more dependent and thereby increases contact with family members.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

We know that as we get older, it's easier for us to get infections, so older adults have more chances of falling ill.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

When people live longer, they are not only older for longer, but also younger for longer.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

When we ask teens to choose a hero, they usually select an older family member rather than a remote public figure.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle changes can prevent cognitive decline in older adults.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Professor of Sociology at WashingtonUniversity, has written numerous articles and books on the issues facing older Americans in our graying society for the past 15 years.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

With older populations, they resist change.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Until the early 1990s nobody much thought about whole populations getting older.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Employers still need to be persuaded that older workers are worth holding on to

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe's most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Older societies may be less innovative and more strongly disinclined to take risks than younger ones

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

By 2025 at the latest, about half the voters in America and most of those in western European countries will be over 50—and older people turn out to vote in much greater number than younger ones.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Academic studies have found no evidence so far that older voters have used their power at the ballot box to push for policies that specifically benefit them, though if in future there are many more of them they might start doing so

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

After all, older people themselves mostly have families.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Even so, the shift in the centre of gravity to older age groups is bound to have a profound effect on societies, not just economically and politically but in all sorts of other ways too

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

The reason why employers are unwilling to keep older workers is that younger workers are readily available.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Compared with younger ones, older societies are less inclined to be innovative and take risks than younger ones

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

The predicted intergenerational warfare is unlikely because most of the older people themselves mostly have families.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

In a study of older people with sisters and brothers, psychologist Debra Gold of the Duke Center for the study of aging and human development found that about 20% said they were hostile or indifferent to ward their sisters and brothers.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

A man who had recently reconciled with his brother told Gold there's something that lets older people to put aside bad deeds of the past and focus a little on what we need now, especially when it's sisters and brothers

出自-2014年6月听力原文

What does the study by Debra Gold find about older people?

出自-2014年6月听力原文

What did the man who had recently reconciled with his brother tell Debra Gold about older people

出自-2014年6月听力原文

They are little lessons which older people of a culture pass down to the younger people to teach them about life.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

But if you know about past values, it helps you to understand the present and many of the older values are still strong today

出自-2011年12月听力原文

At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Bottom line, if you think you need more protein in your diet, consider these questions: Are you an extreme athlete; are you recovering from injury or surgery; or are you 60 years or older?

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Care for older people faced persistent criticism as these trends became apparent.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

In a 2005 study, psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his co-author, psychologist Margo Gardner, then at Temple, divided 6 people into three age groups: young adolescents, with a mean age of 14; older adolescents, with a mean age of 19

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Of course, as most of us forget memories from our first few years as we grow older, this early long-turn memories will likely be lost in subsequent years.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Older adolescents scored about 50 percent higher on an index of risky driving when their peers were in the room — and the driving of early adolescents was fully twice as reckless when other young teens were around.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Older adults need to take in more protein to keep their muscles strong.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

simultaneously, the number of sick older people grew.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Starr recently conducted a small study that found that adding extra protein foods to the diet of obese older individuals who were trying to lose weight strengthened their muscles.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The aim was to enable older people to remain in their own homes for as long as possible, but this increased concern about the lack of coordination between free health and paid-for social car.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach $30 billion by next year, and startups want in on the action.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

The startup's product, SentabTV, enables older adults who may not be comfortable with computers to access email, video chat and social media using just their televisions and a remote control.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

This required local governments to provide residential accommodation for older people and supervise care homes run by independent organizations.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Today's crisis in care for older people in England has two main causes.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Well, we'd been led to believe that we would encounter a good proportion of this older, thicker, technically multi-year ice that's been around for a few years and just gets thicker and thicker.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Across Britain, burnt toast will be served to mothers in bed this morning as older sons and daughters rush to deliver their supermarket bunches of flowers.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

After all, many older people don't begin to experience physical and mental decline until after age 75.

2015年高考英语广东卷 完形填空 原文

As I got a little older, I began to understand what my dad really meant.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

As our society grows old, we need the contributions of our older citizens.

2015年高考英语广东卷 完形填空 原文

At first the price of single copies was seldom a penny-usually two or three cents was charged-and some of the older well-known papers charged five or six cents.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Many studies show that older parents—today's grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Fares for the senior /disabled customers senior citizens 65 and older and disabled customers may ride for half the regular fare.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

He got an older model than he had expected.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

However, there's only so much that prep books, websites, and older friends can teach.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

However, those in the 10 to 12 age group were "concerned with how many people like their posts", suggesting a "need" for social recognition that gets stronger the older they become.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Keeping older drivers on the road.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

Led by professor Phil Blythe, the Newcastle team are developing in-vehicle technologies for older drivers which they hope could help them to continue driving into later life.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

My older students say it makes them feel young.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

On the whole, our population is getting older.

2015年高考英语广东卷 完形填空 原文

Phil Blythe explains: "For many older people, particularly those living alone or in the country, driving is important for preserving their independence, giving them the freedom to get out and about without having to rely on others."

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Research shows that giving up driving is one of the key reasons for a fall in health and well-being among older people, leading to them becoming more isolated隔绝 and inactive.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

She told me that some of the children lived with an older lady in a shelter while others slept on the streets.

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 A 原文

The intelligent transport team at newcastle university have turned an electric car into a mobile laboratory named "drivelab" in order to understand the challenges faced by older drivers and to discover where the key stress points are.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The Jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

You may have the opportunity to make your biggest difference when you're older.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

And picking crops is hard on older bodies.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It's not as hard for them to transform their thought processes as it is for older students.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The apartments in the elegant towers mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller-two-bedroom units under 1, 000 square feet-than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The other issue is that many children-especially older ones-may base their real estate knowledge on HGTV shows, said Aaron Norris of The Norris Group in riverside, Calif.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Trade publications counselled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a "third stepping stone" between infant wear and older kids' clothes.

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public servi

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adjective
  • 1. advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables);

    "aged members of the society"

    "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"

    "senior citizen"

  • 2. older brother or sister;

    "big sister"

  • 3. used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son;

    "Bill Adams, Sr."

  • 4. old in experience;

    "an old offender"

    "the older soldiers"

同义词辨析

elder, older

这两个形容词都表示"年长的,年龄较大的"之意。

  • elder是old的比较级。指家庭成员中年龄较长的,或指两人中年龄较长的。
  • older也是old的比较级,指年龄较大、较老,指物时作"较旧的"解。

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