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      我爷爷是奔75的人了。

      [误] My grandpa is running for seventy-five.

      [正] My grandpa is getting on for seventy-five.

      注:run for 有“竞赛,竞选”之意,如:run for Congress(竞选国会议员),run for the presidency(竞选总

      统)等。而 get on for 才表示“接近”,它通常用进行时态,后面一般跟年龄或者时间,如:It's getting on for midnight(快到半夜了)等。

      (1). push thirty[forty,etc.]已经快到三[四...]十岁了:

      She would like you to think so, but she's pushing thirty.

      You wouldn't think so to look at him, but he's pushing 40.

      (2). get on for[towards]快到(某时间),快(多少岁):

      It's getting on for nine o'clock.

      He must be getting on for forty now.

      Here you are getting on toward thirty.

      (3). 年龄的一些说法:

      1) I'm twenty.(常用)

      2) I'm twenty years old.(常用)

      3) I'm twenty-year-old.(不常用)

      4) I'm twenty years of age.(书面)

      5) I'm aged twenty (years).(书面)

      6) My age is twenty (years).(不常用)

      7) I come into the age of twenty.(不常用)

      8) I'm in my teens.(不常用)

      in one's early teens(不常用)

      在十三四岁年纪

      not yet out of one's teens(不常用)

      还没有到20岁

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