senility

[US]/si'niləti/
[UK]/sɪˈnɪlɪti/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. 衰老状态
Word Forms

Example Sentences

The elderly man showed signs of senility.

这位老人显示出老年痴呆的征兆。

Her grandmother's senility made it difficult for her to remember things.

她奶奶的老年痴呆让她很难记住事情。

Senility is a common issue among the elderly population.

老年痴呆是老年人群中常见的问题。

The doctor diagnosed him with early-onset senility.

医生诊断他患有早发性老年痴呆。

His forgetfulness was often mistaken for senility.

他的健忘经常被误认为是老年痴呆。

The nursing home specialized in caring for patients with senility.

这家养老院专门照顾患有老年痴呆的患者。

Research is ongoing to find a cure for senility.

正在进行研究以找到治疗老年痴呆的方法。

She worried about her own senility as she grew older.

随着年龄增长,她担心自己会出现老年痴呆。

The family struggled to cope with their grandfather's senility.

这个家庭努力应对祖父的老年痴呆。

Senility can have a significant impact on a person's quality of life.

老年痴呆可能会对一个人的生活质量产生重大影响。

Real-world Examples

Then doctors diagnosed a hopeless senility or hardening of the arteries.

随后医生诊断出她患有不可治愈的衰老症或是动脉硬化。

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 3

At forty-four, Linda seemed, by contrast, a monster of flaccid and distorted senility.

琳妲才四十多岁,可对比起来,她已经是一个皮肤松弛,形容歪扭的老妖怪。

Source: Brave New World

Fugues of amnesia. Symptoms of second childhood— what do they call it? —senility?

这是失忆神游症,第二幼年期的征兆——他们是怎么说的?——老糊涂?

Source: Flowers for Algernon

In 1968, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documented 293 deaths from dementia, senility, and Alzheimer's.

1968年,美国疾病控制和预防中心(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)记录了293例痴呆症和阿尔茨海默症致死的病例。

Source: Economic Crash Course

Even modest amounts of exercise protect against diseases ranging from diabetes and osteoporosis to heart attacks and senility.

甚至是少量的运动也能抵御各种疾病,从糖尿病和骨质疏松症到心脏病和衰老。

Source: The Economist - Technology

To the tired student, the idea that he must give it up seemed sheer senility.

对这个疲惫的学生来说, 他必须放弃的想法似乎完全是一种衰老。

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Volume 2)

After that I had other plans for work, but, because of my approaching senility, somehow I failed to do what I had wished to.

假使年轻的时候鞭策自己,如今当有较好或较多的表现。

Source: Selected Modern Chinese Essays 1

Their senility was congenital, like Gladstone's Oxford training and High Church illusions, which caused wild eccentricities in his judgment.

他们的衰老是先天的, 就像格莱斯顿在牛津大学的训练和高等教会的幻想一样, 这导致他的判断异常古怪。

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Volume 1)

It was not only that she was old and exhausted, but overnight the house had plunged into a crisis of senility.

不仅是她老了,精疲力竭,一夜之间,这个家也陷入了衰老的危机。

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

The whole government, from top to bottom, was rotten with the senility of what was antiquated and the instability of what was improvised.

整个政府,从上到下,都因陈旧的陈旧和即兴创作的不稳定而腐烂。

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Part Two)

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