aging

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ag·ing1 (also ageing British EnglishBrE) /ˈeɪdʒɪŋ/ adjectiveadj [only before noun]

OLD/NOT NEWbecoming old 变老的；变旧的

aging movie stars

日益年迈的电影明星

Europe’s ageing population (=with more old people than before)

欧洲渐渐老龄化的人口

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aging• a fleet of aging airplanes• What power it had was in the hands of an aging bureaucracy.• For aging family members who live on their own, family bonds do seem to hold up.• She thought of him as an aging hippy.• Their aging parents will be looked after in private homes.• The aging pirate king facing the youthful bandit prince-patriarch against upstart - monarch against usurper.• We have an aging population and a growing number of residential care homes in the private, voluntary and statutory sectors.• Both have for years eked lacklustre profit out of aging products.

aging2 (also ageing British EnglishBrE) /ˈeɪdʒɪŋ/ noun [uncountableU]

OLD-FASHIONEDthe process of getting old 变老；变旧

Memory loss is often a part of ageing.

记忆力衰退往往是衰老的一种表现。

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aging• Artificial aging Having produced the fake, there is then the problem of making it look old.• There is no shame in amending ambitions to take account of aging.• It aims at dispelling the myths about old age and at building a network of associations concerned with the issues of aging.• For many, memory loss is a part of aging.• It has accepted that progressive aging of the population necessitates a parallel increase in numbers of doctors.• Furthermore, this increase is entirely explained by the aging of the population between the two censuses.

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