nineties

CET4TEM4高頻詞

nineties 九十年代

來自ninety的復數形式。

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.: 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，這些潮流變得更糟了。

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多歲了，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年代后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了, 可有些人九十多歲還非常活潑.