octogenarian

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌɒk.təʊ.dʒəˈneə.ri.ən]
• 美式音标 [ˌɑːk.toʊ.dʒəˈner.i.ən]
• 国际音标 [,ɔktədʒi'nεəriən]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 八十岁到八十九岁的人
• adj. 八十岁到八十九岁的

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Marius on that barricade after the octogenarian was the vision of the young revolution after the apparition of the old.
  马吕斯继那八十岁老人之后，屹立在街垒上，这是继老革命而起的新生革命的形象。
• He was a comparatively young man and did not unnecessarily wish to tie himself to an octogenarian, although a millionairess.
  相对来说，他还算年轻，不 必白白地将自己捆绑在一个老女人身上，尽管她是一位女百万富翁。
• The problem is that the younger successor is also an octogenarian. And he too is quite sick, having battled—or perhaps he is still battling—cancer.
  但问题在于，这位稍显年轻的继承人也已经是耄耋之年，此外，他的健康状况也不好，已经或正在与癌症搏斗。

权威例句

• The Pope is an octogenarian, and though many 80-year-olds have switched to email, many have not.
  FORBES: The Not-So-Secret Vatican Archives
• The octogenarian, it turns out, has an uncanny gut for what plays in the digital world.
  FORBES: Li Ka-shing's Midas Touch
• Octogenarian President Hosni Mubarak's encroaching death is liable to cause a similar shift in the opposite direction.
  CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Strategic foundations of the US-Israel alliance

词组短语

短语

• Memoirs of an Octogenarian 八十自叙

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a person who is between 80 and 89 years old

柯林斯英英字典

• An octogenarian is a person who is between eighty and eighty-nine years old.