forty

They would have been married forty years come this June .

到今年六月他们结婚就有四十年了。

Make it a round figure ─ say forty dollars .

凑个整数——就四十块钱吧。

At a guess , there were forty people at the party .

估计有四十人参加了聚会。

After forty years in politics I think it 's time for me to call it a day .

从政四十年，我想现在也该退休了。

He didn 't get married until he was well into his forties .

他到四十好几才结婚。

I 'll feel much better when I 've had forty winks .

我打个盹就会感到好得多。

Fifty is the new forty .

四十尚未老，五十正当年。

He was very successful in his middle forties .

他在四十五六岁时很成功。

Her brothers were both hefty men in their forties .

她的两个兄弟都是四十多岁，身高体壮。

The plant provides forty per cent of the country 's electricity .

全国总电量的40%是这家发电厂提供的。

After forty years in the police force nothing much shocks me

在警队呆了40年后，我对什么都见怪不怪了。

I was forty , the age when people take stock and change their lives .

我已年届不惑，到了该全面审视自己并改变生活的年龄了。

Two-way trade between the two countries increased by more than forty per cent last year

去年，两国间的双向贸易增长了40%多。

Now I can look back on the whole tragedy from a distance of forty years .

时隔40年后，现在我可以回顾整个悲剧了。

Forty per cent of the population is suffering from malnutrition

人口中有40%的人营养不良。

Give yourself forty minutes at the outside .

最多给自己留40分钟。

Over the past forty years plastics have revolutionised the way we live

在过去的40年中，塑料彻底改变了我们的生活方式。

Between forty and fifty people are reported to have died in the fighting .

报道称有40到50人在冲突中丧生。

He picked up forty of these publications and read each one of them .

他从这些出版物中挑选了40本，逐一阅读。

Fewer than forty per cent voted — the threshold for results to be valid .

投票的人不到40%——投票结果无效。

In Rio , nearly forty people have been held to ransom this year alone

在里约热内卢，仅今年一年就有近40人被绑票。

He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years

他的政治生涯将近40年，其间起起伏伏。

I went on competing till I was in my middle forties .

我继续参赛，直到45岁左右。

More than forty armoured vehicles carrying troops have been sent into the area .

载着部队官兵的40多辆装甲车被派往该地区。

Defence soaks up forty per cent of the budget

国防耗去40%的预算。

About forty prisoners are still barricaded inside the wrecked buildings .

仍有大约40名囚犯被困在严重损毁的建筑物中。

Forty or fifty women were sitting cross-legged on the ground

四五十个女人盘腿坐在地上。

I went through my midlife crisis about four or five years ago , when I was forty .

四五年前，在我40岁的时候，我经历了中年危机。

Up to forty per cent of the students had overstayed their visas .

高达40%的学生签证均已过期。

Steel cans were introduced sometime during the forties .

钢罐是20世纪40年代时开始使用的。