英语词源
- eighties (n.)
- 1827 as the years of someone's life between ages 80 and 89; from 1833 as the ninth decade of years in a given century; from 1854 with reference to Fahrenheit temperature. See eighty.
权威例句
- 1. By the late eighties their number had grown fourfold.
- 到80年代末的时候，他们的数量已是原来的4倍。
- 2. Ford allowed the name and trademark to lapse during the Eighties.
- 福特在20世纪80年代废止了该名称和商标。
- 3. He was in his late eighties and had become the country's most respected elder statesman.
- 他年近九旬，已成为该国最受尊崇的政界元老。
- 4. I spent a lot of time in the early Eighties travelling between London and Bradford.
- 八十年代初，我有很多时间穿梭于伦敦和布拉德福德之间。
- 5. He ran a property development business in the eighties.
- 他在20世纪80年代经营着一家房地产开发公司。