middle-aged

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ˌmiddle-ˈaged adjectiveadj

1 TMCAGEbetween the ages of about 40 and 60 中年的

a middle-aged businessman

中年商人

2 OLD/NOT NEWsomeone who seems middle-aged seems rather dull and does not do exciting or dangerous things 〔态度或行为方式〕有中年人特点的，无趣的，保守的

Living with Henry had made her feel middle-aged.

和亨利共同生活使她觉得自己像个中年人似的。

3. middle-aged spread FATfat that many people develop around their waist as they grow older 中年发福

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middle-aged spread• At 40, you developed something flabby, disgusting and unavoidable called middle-aged spread and your waist disappeared along with your energy.

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middle-aged• SHe tried to imagine the soul of a middle-aged man living in this flesh.• He and a 12-year-old boy robbed a middle-aged man of £25 at gunpoint in a Leeds park.• Then a third patient, and a fourth and a fifth, all middle-aged men, all soon dead.• My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged, middle-class rut.• The condition predominantly affects middle-aged or elderly females.• It is commonplace to see middle-aged or elderly men as newscasters, but not yet women.• Can an old affair that lasted only a year rekindle as middle-aged passion?• He proved that it is indeed possible to reverse coronary heart disease in unhealthy middle-aged people.

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