nineties

• 九十幾
• 九十年代（ ninety的名詞複數 ）

來自ninety的複數形式。

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。

來自柯林斯例句

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。

來自柯林斯例句

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。

來自柯林斯例句

4. At the peak of its popularity in the late nineties, the band sold ten million albums a year.

20世紀90年代後期那個樂隊最紅的時候,每年售出1,000萬張唱片.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

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.

來自辭典例句