年纪大

With older people whose memory may be slipping or when you」re in a group, though, it can be cruel to interrupt, says author Letitia Baldrige:『Patiently listen and wait for a chance to change the subject.

不过，如果对方年纪比较大，记忆力在减退，或你在一群人中，那麼打断就很不礼貌了。这是作家Letitia Baldrige的话。『耐心听，找到一个机会转移话题。

Our Chinese teacher is very lod.

我们的中文老师年纪很大了。

Milla also scored a goal in that match against Russia.

喀麦隆的罗杰。米拉是参加世界杯年纪最大的球员，他在1994年参赛时已是42岁零39天，并且还在同俄国的比赛中攻入一球。

I'm older, certainly, but maybe you like that.- I meant maybe he has neurosyphilis.

我年纪有点大当然不过也许你喜欢那样的-我想他可能有神经梅毒

These "pepper gentlemen," or, as they are called in England,"old bachelors," are often made a butt of ridicule; they are told to put on their nightcaps, draw them over their eyes, and go to sleep.

有一些成了孤孤单单的老光棍，思想奇特，习惯怪僻。大夥儿把他们这种到了相当年纪没有结婚的男人叫做胡椒汉子。

Presently a few elderly members of the Brahmo Samaj arrived.

有几位年纪稍大的梵志会成员也来到。

Many are professional nurses and work full-time. They're usually older, and have families, homes, and other responsibilities. For 52-year-old Sharla Scovel, who lives nearly an hour away from the downtown campus, the iPod lets her listen to lectures in the grocery store line, or study diagrams while commuting to work.

许多人是专职护士，通常年纪比较大，有家庭、住房和其他一些职责。52岁的莎拉·斯科维尔的家离市区学校有一个小时的车程，iPod播放器能让她在杂货店排队的时候听课，或者在换班的时候学习图表。

Their behaviour was at times appalling; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches, playing with bits of mercury, pricking it with needles and pen nibs, watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards, and forcing it out again, marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders.

有时她们的举动简直令人感到震惊。年纪小时，在一节课的大段时间里，她们会蹲在凳子后面的地板上，弄着几滴水银玩，用针和笔尖刺水银，瞧着水银珠滚进粗糙的、锯齿状的，布满灰尘的地板裂缝里，然后又把水银挑出来，惊异地发觉水银怎样把尘土从它的圆肩膀上甩掉。

A toplofty waiter guided them to a table at which two other people already sat, an elderly man in what she was to learn to call " evening dress" and a woman of about forty whose gown and jewels were superb.

一个趾高气扬的侍者引着他们来到一张桌前。那里已经坐了一男一女。年纪稍大的男人穿着她刚刚学着称之为&晚礼服&的衣服，女人四十岁左右的样子，身上的衣裳和珠宝都华丽得无可挑剔。

"Wait a moment," another elder kitchen went to windows while rubbing his waterish hands, and stretched his head and looked at me,"you are the one who survived from dies people?"

&等等。&另一个年纪较大的炊事员擦着湿漉漉的手走到窗口，探头看看我，&你狗日的就是从死人堆里爬出来的那个吧？&

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。