I was seven or eight years old and from that age on I really got keen at going to the sea and knowing about the ocean."

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

Does Milton only seem powerful because he has the force or the strength of the age-old literary canon behind him?

他之所以看起来充满力量,是因为身后的作品被人们奉为文学经典呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Alice is fifteen years old at the time, not an entirely unreasonable age for an actress or an amateur actress playing the maidenly but strong-headed Lady of Milton's mask.

当时爱丽丝，15岁，她的年龄完全不适合演弥尔顿所描绘的,沉稳而意志坚强的小姐。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They may have worked all their lives, but for one reason or another, many Americans have ended up in old age struggling to make ends meet.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

Some of us make it to the ripe old age of 80, 90 a 100 or more.

有些人活到八九十岁高龄甚至更老。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"We discovered 150 or so genetic markers that can highly predict whether or not a person has the genetic propensity to live to extreme old age."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

But people died typically of either infectious diseases or they died during childbirth, or they might have died at old age which would have been 50 or so at that time.

那时的人要么死于传染病,要么在分娩的过程中死去,或者在他们大约五十岁左右的时候,死于衰老

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选