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Examples:method of calculating a person's age in years from birth—the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)—reach marriageable age (a girl's fifteenth birthday)—quaternary (geological period covering the recent ice ages over the last 180,000 years)—"youth freezing", Chinese girls beginning anti-ageing treatments as young as two years old in the hope they will never look old—treasure knife does not age (idiom); old but still vigorous—white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom); decrepit old age—(of parents) bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age—if you are lazy in your prime, you'll be sorry in your old age—booming and golden age of Qing dynasty (from Kang Xi Qian Long emperors)—Holocene (geological period covering approx 12000 years since the last ice age)—woman of similar age one's parents (term of address used by child)—traditional Asian method of calculating a person's age, which holds that a baby is one year old at birth—(in former times) coming-of-age ceremony at 20 years—being bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up (proverb)—in rapid succession (of children, close in age)—In old age, an expatriate longs return home.—white (esp. bright white teeth of youth or white hair of old age)—Pleistocene (geological epoch from 2m years ago, covering the most recent ice ages)—when a girl is of age, she must be married off [idiom.]—shine through the ages [idiom.]—Men of Zheng fighting over their respective ages [idiom.]— |