英语词汇“to get on in years or life”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(a) to get on in years or life.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > be or seem old [verb (intransitive)] > grow old

oldeOE

eldc1175

to fall in (also to) agea1398

forlive1398

hoara1420

runa1425

age1440

veterate1623

senesce1656

olden1700

wane1821

to get on in years1822

senilize1841

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 47 As I get on in life, I find it more difficult to deceive myself in this delightful manner.

1826 Remarks on Exodus Mar. 14 These, with some other vanities and grosser sins, are the pleasures of youth:—as you get on In years, the nature of them changes.

1885 ‘L. Malet’ Col. Enderby's Wife (ed. 3) I. ii. i. 102 As one gets on in years.

1891 Temple Bar Oct. 149 He was getting on in life, whereas his fiancée was not yet twenty.

1957 M. Goudeket Close to Colette xv. 111 As she got on in life, she needed more instruments of control, as if navigation were becoming more difficult.

2003 M. A. Doody in C. Fox Cambr. Compan. Jonathan Swift v. 96 To be getting on in years, plain, respectable, and poor—these are not splendid qualities.

单词	to get on in years or life
释义	> as lemmas to get on in years or life (a) to get on in years or life. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > be or seem old [verb (intransitive)] > grow old oldeOE eldc1175 to fall in (also to) agea1398 forlive1398 hoara1420 runa1425 age1440 veterate1623 senesce1656 olden1700 wane1821 to get on in years1822 senilize1841 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 47 As I get on in life, I find it more difficult to deceive myself in this delightful manner. 1826 Remarks on Exodus Mar. 14 These, with some other vanities and grosser sins, are the pleasures of youth:—as you get on In years, the nature of them changes. 1885 ‘L. Malet’ Col. Enderby's Wife (ed. 3) I. ii. i. 102 As one gets on in years. 1891 Temple Bar Oct. 149 He was getting on in life, whereas his fiancée was not yet twenty. 1957 M. Goudeket Close to Colette xv. 111 As she got on in life, she needed more instruments of control, as if navigation were becoming more difficult. 2003 M. A. Doody in C. Fox Cambr. Compan. Jonathan Swift v. 96 To be getting on in years, plain, respectable, and poor—these are not splendid qualities. extracted from getv. < as lemmas
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