eighties
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- Noun:
- the decade from 1880 to 1889
- the decade from 1980 to 1989
- the time of life between 80 and 90
单词词源
- eighties (n.)
- 1827 as the years of someone's life between ages 80 and 89; from 1833 as the ninth decade of years in a given century; from 1854 with reference to Fahrenheit temperature. See eighty.
双语例句
- 1. In the eighteen eighties , ferdinand de lesseps -- builder of the suez canal -- formed a french company to build a waterway across panama .
- 2. In the nineteen eighties , he taught english in morocco as a peace corps volunteer .
- 3. Mr li shows no signs of flagging , but the reality is that , like many first-generation founders of businesses in hong kong , he is in his eighties .
- 4. All these supplement the standard biographies , which include martin gilbert 's official multivolume history , published in the nineteen-seventies and eighties , jenkins 's single-volume life , from 2001 , and john keegan 's crisp and authoritative life , from the year after .
- 5. The central part of the united states suffered its own economic crisis in the nineteen eighties . The price of farm land dropped and banks no longer provided the credit farmers needed . Unemployment reduced the population .