forties
英語の語源
- forties (n.)
- 1843 as the years of someone's life between 40 and 49; from 1840 as the fifth decade of years in a given century. See forty. Also a designation applied in various places and times to certain oligarchies, ruling classes, or governing bodies.
It is well known that society in the island [Guernsey] is, or perhaps we ought to say, for many years was, divided into two sets, called respectively the Sixties and the Forties, the former composed of the old families and those allied to them, the latter of families of newly-acquired wealth and position. ["The Dublin Review," October 1877]
Roaring Forties are rough parts of the ocean between 40 and 50 degrees latitude.
例文
- 1. She became quite a notable director in the thirties and forties .
- 彼女は三四十年代に名監督になった。
- 2.Her mother had bundled all her Forties clothes up and burnt them.
- 彼女の母親は彼女が40代の頃に着ていたすべての服を包んで燃やした。
- 3.I went on competing till I was in my midddle forties .
- 私は45歳くらいまで参加し続けました。
- 4.Eddie was a short squat fellow in his forties with thining hair.
- エディは40代で、背が低くて太っていて、髪の毛が薄くなってきた。
- 5.Unemployment among the over forties has risen sharply in recent years.
- ここ数年、40代以上の失業率が大幅に上昇している。
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