单词详解

He is over seventy but he shows no signs of slowing up. 他年逾70，但并不衰老迟钝。

I repeated them until I could recite seventy stories without dropping a word.

我反复背诵，直到我能一词不漏地背出七十篇故事来。

Mrs. Snow will go out a great deal, even at seventy.  

斯诺夫人已经 70 岁了，还经常参加社交活动。

She worked up her typing speed to seventy words a minute. 她把打字速度提高到每分钟 70 个字。

This hall holds a maximum of seventy people. 这个大厅最多能容纳七十人。

Alex is sick of working. He worked seventy hours this week.

艾力克斯对工作感到厌烦了。他这礼拜工作了七十个小时。

All the years after seventy are gifts from gods.

七十岁以后的岁月，是上帝赐予的。

Seventy percent of the surface of the earth is covered by water.

百分之七十的地球表面被水所覆盖。

Edmund was a medium-sized and upright man of seventy, whose brown face was perfectly clean-shaven.

派拉玛是一个中等身材，腰背笔直的七十岁老人，他那褐色面孔上的胡子被刮得精光。

2. n.

A. 七十几（指 70 至 79 之间的数字） (When you talk about the seventies, you are referring to numbers between 70 and 79. For example, if you are in your seventies, you are aged between 70 and 79. If the temperature is in the seventies, it is between 70 and 79.)

It’s a long way to go for two people in their seventies.

对于两个七十几岁的人来说,这段路太远了。

B. 七十年代（指 1970 年至 1979 年） (The seventies is the decade between 1970 and 1979.)

In the late Seventies, things had to be new, modern, revolutionary.

20世纪70年代晚期，一切都要新奇、时髦、标新立异。

In the seventies the U.S. space program seemed to have reached a plateau of development.

七十年代美国的宇宙空间计划似乎发展到了一个较高的水准。