nineties

nineties

九十幾
　　九十年代（ ninety的名詞復數 ）

中文詞源：

nineties 九十年代

來自ninety的復數形式。

例句：

1. Into her nineties, her thinking remained acute and her character forceful.
雖已年屆九旬，她依然頭腦敏銳，個性很強。

2. These trends only got worse as we moved into the nineties.
我們步入20世紀90年代時，這些潮流變得更糟瞭。

3. By this time she was in her nineties and needed help more and more frequently.
到這個時候她已經90多歲瞭，越來越頻繁地需要幫助。

4. At the peak of its popularity in the late nineties, the band sold ten million albums a year.
20世紀90年代後期那個樂隊最紅的時候,每年售出1,000萬張唱片.

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 歲 就老瞭, 可有些人九十多歲還非常活潑.