单词详解

1. num. 八十，八十个 (the number 80)

Eighty people died when bombs rained down on the city's crowded streets.

炸弹在城市拥挤的街道上雨点般落下，造成80人死亡。

Having walked eighty miles that day, some of them were played out at the end.

那天走了80里路，结果他们中有几个人感到疲倦极了。

His father is eighty years old but still very energetic. 他父亲八十岁了但依然精力充沛。

The watch is worth about eighty Yuan. 这只手表价值80元左右。

In1967, more than eighty percent of Americans were white.

在1967年，超过百分之八十的美国人是白人。

Eighty percent of the students in our school come from Henan.

我们学校百分之八十的学生来自河南。

About eighty percent of all people are said to live within reach of a wireless telephone signal.

据说大约百分之八十的人生活在无线电话信号范围内。

2. n.

A. 八十几；八十多 (When you talk about the eighties, you are referring to numbers between 80

and 89. For example, if you are in your eighties, you are aged between 80 and 89. If the temperature is in the eighties, the temperature is between 80 and 89 degrees. ) 

He was in his late eighties and had become the country's most respected elder statesman.

他年近九旬，已成为该国最受尊崇的政界元老。

B.（二十世纪）八十年代 (The eighties is the decade between 1980 and 1989.)

He ran a property development business in the eighties.

他在20世纪80年代经营着一家房地产开发公司。

His grandfather is a man in the eighties. 他的祖父是一个八十多岁的人。