forty years meaning in English
四十年
Examples
- He is forty years of age and still unmarried .
他已经四十岁，还没有结婚。 - He might be forty years old; he stooped a little in walking .
他大概有40岁；走起路来，有点儿拱腰曲背。 - After the funeral, joe and bert revealed a secret which they had kept for over forty years .
葬礼之后，乔和伯特才把他们保守了四十多年的秘密公诸于众。 - To have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years .
沉思40年人生与沉思一万年人生没有两样。 - The average shore employment requires as much as forty years to equip a man with this sort of an education .
干陆地上的工作，需要四十年之久，才能使人获得这种教育。