eighty

名词 eighty:

1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight
   同义词：80, LXXX, fourscore

形容词 eighty:

1. being ten more than seventy
   同义词：80, lxxx, fourscore

1. He must be getting on for eighty!
   他一定快八十了！
2. He's eighty if he's a day!
   他至少八十岁了！
3. He is over eighty, but he still dodders along.
   他年过八十，但仍蹒跚而行。
4. Although he is over eighty, he looks hale and healthy.
   尽管他已经八十多岁了，看上去还很健壮。
5. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen.
   主教年届八十，仍旧像他还是个年方十八的小伙子之时被吩咐要做的那样，把那一套讲了六十多年的老话继续讲下去。
6. Although he's over eighty his mind is still remarkably alert.
   他虽已年过八十，但头脑仍然十分机敏。
7. There are eighty pages in this book.
   这本书有八十页。

eight.y

n.（名词）
【复数】 eight.ies
The cardinal number equal to 8 × 0.
八十：等于8×0的基数
eighties
eighties
Often Eighties The decade from 80 to 89 in a century.
常作 Eighties 八十年代：某一世纪从80到89的十年
A decade or the numbers from 80 to 89:
从80到89的十年或十个数：
例句：
They were still active in their eighties. Before noon, the temperature shot into the eighties.
虽然已年过八十，他们仍然很活跃。中午之前，气温就升高到八十多度

来源：
Middle English eighti
中古英语 eighti
from Old English eahtatig * see oktô(u)
源自 古英语 eahtatig *参见 oktô(u)

【引伸】
eight.y
adj.（形容词）
pron.（代词）