Definition
年岁 is a formal or literary noun that covers three distinct but related meanings: a person's age (more poetic or respectful than the everyday 年龄), the annual yield of crops (agricultural context), and a particular year or period of time (often in plural or temporal phrases like 那些年岁). The harvest sense is especially common in rural or classical writing.
n.
age (of a person) — formal/literaryyear's harvestannual crop yielda particular yearperiod of years
Examples
- 年岁。Tā de nián suì yǐjīng hěn dà le.He is already very advanced in age.
- 年岁。Jīnnián de nián suì bǐ qùnián hǎo duō le.This year's harvest is much better than last year's.
- 年岁，。Zài nàxiē jiānnán de nián suì li, rénmen hùxiāng bāngzhù.In those difficult years, people helped each other.
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