Forty

1·Fifty is the new forty.

四十尚未老，五十正当年。

—— 《牛津词典》

2·My car does forty miles to the gallon.

我的车每加仑汽油跑四十英里。

—— 《牛津词典》

3·At a guess , there were forty people at the party.

估计有四十人参加了聚会。

—— 《牛津词典》

4·They would have been married forty years come this June.

到今年六月他们结婚就有四十年了。

—— 《牛津词典》

5·The book has forty pages.

这本书有四十页。

1·While Ali Baba took these measures, the captain of the forty robbers returned to the forest with inconceivable mortification.

当阿里巴巴采取这些措施时，这四十个强盗的首领带着难以想象的屈辱回到树林。

2·They predict that forty people wearing such clothing could purify two meters of airspace in just one minute - if they were all standing in one meter of pavement.

他们预计四十个穿这衣服的人们就能在仅仅一分钟内净化两米的空间——如果他们都站在一米的人行道上。

3·And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

和带卯的银座四十个，这板底下有两卯，那板底下也有两卯。

4·Hollywood, founded in 1903 with a population of 166 by a prohibitionist from Kansas, was just one of forty incorporated cities within a thirty-five mile radius.

166个从堪萨斯来的禁酒主义者在1903年建立起来的好莱坞，当时只是四十个合成一体的城市之一里的半径三十五英里的地方。

5·Look well at him, and you will find him to be both the fictitious oil merchant, and the captain of the gang of forty robbers.

好好看看他，你会发现他即是伪装成油商的人，也是四十个强盗团伙的首领。

1·He has red, freckled skin which accompanied red hair; he was a man of forty, thin, with a pinched face, precise and rather pedantic; and he spoke with a Scots accent in a very low, quiet voice.

他有红色的，带有雀斑的皮肤和红色的头发；他四十岁，身材瘦削，有一张消瘦的脸，不苟言笑、有点迂腐；而且他说话带着苏格兰口音，声音很低、很安静。

2·I judged him to be about forty.

我估计他四十岁左右。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families.

总之，战士与战士之间只有年龄的差别，种族相同，同是一些百折不回的人，有的二十岁为理想而死，有的四十岁为家庭而亡。

4·He looks about forty.

他看起来大约四十岁。

5·She is a woman nearing forty.

她是个接近四十岁的女人。