nineties
- 九十幾
- 九十年代（ ninety的名詞復數(shù) ）
中文詞源
nineties 九十年代
來自ninety的復數(shù)形式。
英文詞源
- nineties (n.)
- 1857 as the years of someone's life between 90 and 99; from 1848 as the tenth decade of years in a given century; 1849 with reference to Fahrenheit temperature. See ninety.
Many still live who remember those days; if the old men cannot tell you the exact date, they will say: 'It were in the nineties;' (etc.) ["Chambers's Journal," Nov. 1, 1856]
In Britain, the naughty nineties was a popular name 1920s-30s for the 1890s, based on the notion of a relaxing of morality and mood in contrast to earlier Victorian times. In U.S., gay nineties in reference to the same decade is attested from 1927, and was the title of a regular nostalgia feature in "Life" magazine about that time.The long, dreary blue-law Sunday afternoons were periods of the Nineties which no amount of rosy retrospect will ever be able to recall as gay, especially to a normal healthy boy to whom all activities were taboo except G. A. Henty and the bound volumes of Leslie's Weekly of the Civil War. [Life, Sept. 1, 1927]
雙語例句
- 1. Into her nineties, her thinking remained acute and her character forceful.
- 雖已年屆九旬，她依然頭腦敏銳，個性很強。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. These trends only got worse as we moved into the nineties.
- 我們步入20世紀90年代時，這些潮流變得更糟了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. By this time she was in her nineties and needed help more and more frequently.
- 到這個時候她已經(jīng)90多歲了，越來越頻繁地需要幫助。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. At the peak of its popularity in the late nineties, the band sold ten million albums a year.
- 20世紀90年代后期那個樂隊最紅的時候,每年售出1,000萬張唱片.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. Some men are old at sixty - five ; others are still as lively as crickets in their nineties.
- 有些人到六十五 歲 就老了, 可有些人九十多歲還非常活潑.
來自辭典例句