名詞 ageing:

1. acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time
   同義詞：ripening, aging
2. the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age
   同義詞：aging, senescence

動詞 age:

1. begin to seem older; get older
   同義詞：age
2. grow old or older
   同義詞：senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate
3. make older
   同義詞：age

形容詞 ageing:

1. growing old
   同義詞：aging, senescent

1. I have a distinct sense of the passing of time, and I do want to grow old gracefully. I don't want to be some kind of ageing pop singer.
   我明顯地感到時光的流逝。歲月不饒人，我不想成為某種上了年紀(jì)的流行歌手。
2. I asked Tony why he was late to work and he told me some hard-luck story about having to take his mother's ageing pet poodle to the vet because it had swallowed a chicken bone.
   我問托尼為什么上班遲到。他告訴我他碰到了倒霉事，他母親那條寶貝的長卷毛狗因為咽下了一根雞骨頭，他只得送它去看獸醫(yī)。
3. Ageing is accompanied by a slow degeneration of his mental faculties.
   他隨著年紀(jì)增長，智力逐漸衰退。