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单词 eighties
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eighties
noun[plural]
uk
/ˈeɪ.tiz/us
/ˈeɪ.t̬iz/
B2
A person's eighties are theperiodin which they areagedbetween 80 and 89:
八十多岁
Mygrandmotherisinher eighties.我祖母80多岁了。
the eighties
therangeoftemperaturebetween 80° and 89°:
（华氏）八十多度
Thetemperatureisexpectedto beinthe eightiestomorrow.明天温度预计为80多华氏度。
B2
thedecade(=periodof tenyears)between 80 and 89 in anycentury, usually 1980–1989:
八十年代
Margaret Thatcher was the UKprimeministerin/duringthe eighties.玛格丽特•撒切尔是英国八十年代的首相。
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(Definition ofeightiesfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

eighties| American Dictionary

eighties
plural noun
(also80s);(80’s)
us
/ˈeɪt̬·iz/
thenumbers80 through 89:
Thetemperatureisexpectedto be in the eighties(= between 80° and 89°)tomorrow.
Ronald Reagan waspresidentin the eighties(= between 1980 and 1989).
Mygrandmotheris in her eighties(= between 80 and 89yearsold).
(Definition ofeightiesfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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eighties
Shunning retirement : work experience of men in their seventies and earlyeighties.
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A man well into hiseighties, he clearly felt that the battle of ' ' race ' ' had been lost and that his time had passed.
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By the earlyeighties, however, this trend was halted, and even reversed.
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Figure 3 illustrates a small increase in uptake between 0 and 15 points for those in their sixties andeighties.
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During theeightiesand nineties, there was increasing alarm over juvenile crime in a wide variety of social and cultural contexts.
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Up to the mid-eightiesthere was a simple consensus.
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However, the democratisation process in theeightieshas seen the demand for a more equitable distribution of welfare amongst different social groups.
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What we tried to do with the credit controls in theeightieswas the same.
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In the earlyeightiesdifferent standards still used today emerged.
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During the late seventies and earlyeighties, the struggle about nuclear power had all the characteristics of a contest about basic policy images.
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As stated previously, privatisation policies were part of a broader set of state responses to the fiscal and legitimisation crises of the seventies andeighties.
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She was still dancing, writing, and playing the piano until well into hereighties, when ill health intervened.
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His entrance, nearly always on time, was magisterial, but somewhat slower in his lateeighties.
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Having lived into hiseighties, he had observed the introduction of timbering as an industry, and even seen new crops introduced and old varieties of yam become scarcer.
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In theeightiesand nineties, this trend was reversed due not only to internationally enforced structural adjustment programmes, but also as a result of growing internal popular dissatisfaction.
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