英汉词典

nineties 基本解释

• 九十几
• 九十年代（ ninety的名词复数 ）

nineties 中文词源

来自ninety的复数形式。

nineties 英文词源

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]

nineties 双语例句

1. Into her nineties, her thinking remained acute and her character forceful.

虽已年届九旬，她依然头脑敏锐，个性很强。

来自柯林斯例句

2. These trends only got worse as we moved into the nineties.

我们步入20世纪90年代时，这些潮流变得更糟了。

来自柯林斯例句

3. By this time she was in her nineties and needed help more and more frequently.

到这个时候她已经90多岁了，越来越频繁地需要帮助。

来自柯林斯例句

4. At the peak of its popularity in the late nineties, the band sold ten million albums a year.

20世纪90年代后期那个乐队最红的时候,每年售出1,000万张唱片.

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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 岁 就老了, 可有些人九十多岁还非常活泼.

来自辞典例句