You don't look a day over forty.
對話
Jean: So you're Mary’s friend. I'm very pleased to meet you.
Marion: It's a pleasure to meet you too. Mary has told me that you also work in marketing.
Jean: Yes, but as you know, she is in shoes, while I'm in cosmetics.
Marion: Were you at school together with her?
Jean: No, no, I'm ten years older. We met much later.
Marion: What! I can't believe it. You don't look a day over forty.
珍：啊，你就是瑪麗的朋友。幸會(huì)，幸會(huì)。
瑪麗恩：我也很高興見到你。瑪麗說，你也是從事銷售工作的。
珍：不錯(cuò)，但你知道的啦，她賣的是鞋子，我賣的是化？菻~。
瑪麗恩：你們小時(shí)候是同學(xué)嗎？
珍：不是，不是，我比瑪麗大十年。我們是多年以后才認(rèn)識的。
瑪麗恩：什么！這真是難以置信。你看來最多不過超四十歲。
瑪麗恩見珍說比瑪麗大十年，頗為奇怪：What! I can't believe it. You don't look a day over forty。You don't look a day over forty直譯是‘你看來最多四十歲，一天都不多’。類似說法一般用于四十歲以上的人，例如You don't look a day over fifty/sixty等。對二、三十歲的人，很少說You don't look a day over twenty/thirty。說人家樣子和實(shí)際年齡相符，英文是to look one's age。She does not look her age一般是說‘她看來比實(shí)際年紀(jì)小’，但也可以指‘比實(shí)際年紀(jì)大’。She looks older/younger than her age則是說‘看來比實(shí)際年紀(jì)大一些/小一些’。珍其實(shí)超過了四十歲，這英文叫做middle age（中年），即四十到六十歲，例如：(1) He did not get married till he was in middle age（他中年才結(jié)婚）。(2) The speaker was a man of middle age（說話的是個(gè)中年人）?！松氖砰_始’是英文Life begins at 40的直譯。留意middle age不可寫作Middle Ages。Middle Ages是歐洲所謂‘中古時(shí)代’，一般指公元一一○○至一五○○年這段時(shí)間。Life in the late Middle Ages was luxurious for the privileged, but hard for most people即‘中世紀(jì)末葉，特權(quán)階級生活奢華，一般人卻度日維艱’。最后談?wù)処 can't believe it 一語。這話常用來表示驚奇，也作I don't believe it，例如：She has won the lottery? I can't/don't believe it!（她中了彩票？這簡直難以置信）
對話
Jean: So you're Mary’s friend. I'm very pleased to meet you.
Marion: It's a pleasure to meet you too. Mary has told me that you also work in marketing.
Jean: Yes, but as you know, she is in shoes, while I'm in cosmetics.
Marion: Were you at school together with her?
Jean: No, no, I'm ten years older. We met much later.
Marion: What! I can't believe it. You don't look a day over forty.
珍：啊，你就是瑪麗的朋友。幸會(huì)，幸會(huì)。
瑪麗恩：我也很高興見到你。瑪麗說，你也是從事銷售工作的。
珍：不錯(cuò)，但你知道的啦，她賣的是鞋子，我賣的是化？菻~。
瑪麗恩：你們小時(shí)候是同學(xué)嗎？
珍：不是，不是，我比瑪麗大十年。我們是多年以后才認(rèn)識的。
瑪麗恩：什么！這真是難以置信。你看來最多不過超四十歲。
瑪麗恩見珍說比瑪麗大十年，頗為奇怪：What! I can't believe it. You don't look a day over forty。You don't look a day over forty直譯是‘你看來最多四十歲，一天都不多’。類似說法一般用于四十歲以上的人，例如You don't look a day over fifty/sixty等。對二、三十歲的人，很少說You don't look a day over twenty/thirty。說人家樣子和實(shí)際年齡相符，英文是to look one's age。She does not look her age一般是說‘她看來比實(shí)際年紀(jì)小’，但也可以指‘比實(shí)際年紀(jì)大’。She looks older/younger than her age則是說‘看來比實(shí)際年紀(jì)大一些/小一些’。珍其實(shí)超過了四十歲，這英文叫做middle age（中年），即四十到六十歲，例如：(1) He did not get married till he was in middle age（他中年才結(jié)婚）。(2) The speaker was a man of middle age（說話的是個(gè)中年人）?！松氖砰_始’是英文Life begins at 40的直譯。留意middle age不可寫作Middle Ages。Middle Ages是歐洲所謂‘中古時(shí)代’，一般指公元一一○○至一五○○年這段時(shí)間。Life in the late Middle Ages was luxurious for the privileged, but hard for most people即‘中世紀(jì)末葉，特權(quán)階級生活奢華，一般人卻度日維艱’。最后談?wù)処 can't believe it 一語。這話常用來表示驚奇，也作I don't believe it，例如：She has won the lottery? I can't/don't believe it!（她中了彩票？這簡直難以置信）