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Перевод: elderly
[прилагательное] пожилой; немолодой; почтенный; [существительное] престарелые
Тезаурус:
- Over s even in ten elderly men are married, but under four in ten elderly women.
- In an elderly upper-crust voice, I complained about "This business of trying to jam the other chaps' telephones - y'know, it hasn't done us any favours at all, frankly.
- Those services had been first transformed - by ambitious attempts to prevent family breakdown in the early 1960s, and to absorb juvenile delinquents into the public care system at the end of the decade - and then merged with local authority services for elderly people and people with disabilities in 1971.
- The "demographic and pension time bombs" are much over-used phrases, and the Health Advisory Service's emotive discussion of "the rising tide" of the frail elderly population reflects similar demographic despair.
- If there is a marked resistance on the part of a lonely, but fit and mobile elderly person to consider any ideas for the possible improvement of her social life, and if gentle persuasion is of no avail, you may be justified in suspecting a condition of hidden depression.
- Like all elderly ladies, however, she needs polite attention.
- It is never difficult to think of suitable gifts to take to elderly people who live alone, but apart from the obvious ones it is worth remembering that things like home-made cakes, biscuits, jam or marmalade which they may no longer bother to make for themselves are particularly appreciated.
- Both may be statements of truth, but they are bad statements because they can make an elderly person feel how unimportant she is in your life, even though you may not mean to convey this.
- He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger, who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother.
- I was always very nervous when trying to help a very dear elderly aunt, because I never did things quite the "right" way!
- Labour will expand the services which elderly people and their carers need for long-term support in the community, such as home helps, care assistants and community services.
- elderly resident of Lanrean.
- As Alfred Oliver begins to rise, a blunt instrument is smashed forcibly upon his head, followed by more blows incessantly raining down upon the elderly tobacconist.
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