| 词汇 | eighties |
| 释义 | eighties noun[ plural ] uk /ˈeɪ.tiz/ us /ˈeɪ.t̬iz/ B2 A person's eighties are the period in which they are aged between 80 and 89: 八十多岁 in your eightiesMy grandmother is in her eighties.我祖母80多岁了。 the eighties the range of temperature between 80° and 89°: （华氏）八十多度 in the eightiesThe temperature is expected to be in the eighties tomorrow.明天温度预计为80多华氏度。 B2 the decade (= period of ten years) between 80 and 89 in any century, usually 1980–1989: 八十年代 in/during the eightiesMargaret Thatcher was the UK prime minister in/during the eighties.玛格丽特•撒切尔是英国八十年代的首相。 Describing age & birthdays advanced age age group age limit aged generationalist going on gone grown up knock millennial ripe seventies sexagenarian sixties something spring chicken teens twenties twinkle You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Measurements of temperature Decades, centuries & the millennium eighties | American Dictionaryeighties plural noun (also80s); (80’s)us/ˈeɪt̬·iz/ the numbers 80 through 89: The temperature is expected to be in the eighties (= between 80° and 89°) tomorrow. Ronald Reagan was president in the eighties (= between 1980 and 1989). My grandmother is in her eighties (= between 80 and 89 years old). Examples of eightieseighties Shunning retirement : work experience of men in their seventies and early eighties. A man well into his eighties, he clearly felt that the battle of ' ' race ' ' had been lost and that his time had passed. By the early eighties, however, this trend was halted, and even reversed. Figure 3 illustrates a small increase in uptake between 0 and 15 points for those in their sixties and eighties. During the eighties and nineties, there was increasing alarm over juvenile crime in a wide variety of social and cultural contexts. Up to the mid-eighties there was a simple consensus. However, the democratisation process in the eighties has seen the demand for a more equitable distribution of welfare amongst different social groups. What we tried to do with the credit controls in the eighties was the same. In the early eighties different standards still used today emerged. During the late seventies and early eighties, the struggle about nuclear power had all the characteristics of a contest about basic policy images. As stated previously, privatisation policies were part of a broader set of state responses to the fiscal and legitimisation crises of the seventies and eighties. She was still dancing, writing, and playing the piano until well into her eighties, when ill health intervened. His entrance, nearly always on time, was magisterial, but somewhat slower in his late eighties. Having lived into his eighties, he had observed the introduction of timbering as an industry, and even seen new crops introduced and old varieties of yam become scarcer. In the eighties and nineties, this trend was reversed due not only to internationally enforced structural adjustment programmes, but also as a result of growing internal popular dissatisfaction. See all examples of eighties These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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