eighty

1. NUM Eighty is the number 80. 80

Eighty horses trotted up. 80匹馬小跑上來(lái)。

2. N-PLURAL When you talk about the eighties, you are referring to numbers between 80 and 89. For example, if you are in your eighties, you are aged between 80 and 89. If the temperature is in the eighties, the temperature is between 80 and 89 degrees. 八十幾

He was in his late eighties and had become the country's most respected elder statesman. 那時(shí)他年近九十，并且已經(jīng)成為該國(guó)最受尊敬的政界元老。

3. N-PLURAL The eighties is the decade between 1980 and 1989. 80年代

He ran a property development business in the eighties. 他在80年代經(jīng)營(yíng)一家房地產(chǎn)開發(fā)公司。