nineties

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nineties 九十年代

来自ninety的复数形式。

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]

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1. Into her nineties, her thinking remained acute and her character forceful.: 虽已年届九旬，她依然头脑敏锐，个性很强。

2. These trends only got worse as we moved into the nineties.: 我们步入20世纪90年代时，这些潮流变得更糟了。

3. By this time she was in her nineties and needed help more and more frequently.: 到这个时候她已经90多岁了，越来越频繁地需要帮助。

4. At the peak of its popularity in the late nineties, the band sold ten million albums a year.: 20世纪90年代后期那个乐队最红的时候,每年售出1,000万张唱片.

5. Some men are old at sixty - five ; others are still as lively as crickets in their nineties.: 有些人到六十五岁就老了, 可有些人九十多岁还非常活泼.