nineties

• ナインティーズ
• ナインティーズ（90の名詞複数形）

ninetyの複数形から。

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]

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

90歳になっても、彼女は頭が鋭く、個性が強い。

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

私たちが1990年代に入ったとき、これらの流れはさらに悪くなった。

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

この頃になると彼女は90代になり、ますます頻繁に助けが必要になってきた。

4.At the peak of its popularity in the late nineties 、the band sold ten million albums a year.1990年代後半にそのバンドが最もヒットしたとき、毎年1000万枚のレコードが売れた。

5.Some men are old at sixty-five ; others are still as lively as crickets in their nineties .

65歳になると老けてしまう人もいれば、90代で活発な人もいる。