单词 | thirty-something |
释义 | > as lemmasthirty-something thirty-something n. [popularized as a catch-phrase by the U.S. television programme thirtysomething, first broadcast in 1987] colloquial (originally U.S.) an undetermined age between thirty and forty; spec. applied to members of the ‘baby boom’ generation entering their thirties in the mid-1980s; also attributive or as adj. phr. (hence, characteristic of the tastes and lifestyle of this group). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > person of specific age > [adjective] one-year-old?1609 seven-year-old1713 seventeen-year-old1821 nine-year-old1828 centenarian1854 twentyish1928 thirty-something1981 1981 N.Y. Times 26 July ii. 7/5 William Finn is 29 or thereabouts. Wendy Wassenstein is 30-something. 1987 New Republic 2 Nov. 50/1 The show is a critical success (most people reviewing television are thirtysomething), touted as this season's ‘L.A. Law’. 1988 Los Angeles Times 26 June i.1/6 These are the women who should be the bread and butter of U.S. retailing, the baby boomers in the workplace, the thirty-something crowd seen by retailers as having money to burn. 1990 Independent 23 Feb. 18/8 I am the thirtysomething mother of a two-year-old and a six-month-old. I find nothing glamorous about it at all. < as lemmas |
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