年 (Nián)

Chinese · surname Nian

Baby Dragon · 龙宝宝 (10)

  1. "Age?" "16."

  2. What grade are you in?

  3. You're still green.

  4. I'm young.

  5. I was born in 1988.

  6. He is very young.

  7. I'll be seventeen next year.

  8. He died when he was 54 years old.

  9. You're a grown man.

  10. He is close to sixty.

Beginner · 入门 (10)

  1. It's quite difficult to master French in 2 or 3 years.

  2. He returned home for the first time in ten years.

  3. Young people are apt to go to extremes.

  4. I did smoke when I was young.

  5. This year promises a good harvest of rice.

  6. It has been ten years since I came here.

  7. This is the hottest summer we have had in fifty years.

  8. In his younger days he worked very hard.

  9. Is there a youth hostel near here?

  10. We've been having strange weather the past few years.

Intermediate · 中级 (10)

  1. My father aged a lot since last year.

  2. My father is retiring next spring.

  3. This song reminds me of my childhood.

  4. My brother is a first-year student.

  5. It's a good thing to read good books when you are young.

  6. This song makes me think of when I was young.

  7. Now my income is twice what it was two years ago.

  8. What do you think about young people today?

  9. One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006.

  10. Harvard University was founded in 1636.

Advanced · 高级 (10)

  1. I discovered my father collected 30 years of newspapers.

  2. We moved to New York last fall.

  3. My father has been living in Nagoya for 30 years.

  4. The young man saved the girl from a bunch of hoodlums.

  5. He has not written to us since last February.

  6. Each year the world's population increases on average by two percent.

  7. The year of the dragon has ended.

  8. When I was your age, Pluto was a planet.

  9. In 1957, the Soviet Union sent a female dog named Laika into space.

  10. He is too young to undertake this work.

Master Dragon · 龙师父 (10)

  1. Such things as television and computers could not have been dreamed of fifty years ago.

  2. Celebrating Spring Festival is commonly referred to as 'passing the year'.

  3. The pages are turning yellow with the years.

  4. Tom is your age.

  5. With a warm and wet climate, Guangzhou has fresh flowers all year round.

  6. He survived an accident last year, but still drives recklessly.

  7. Tom regretted having wasted a great deal of his life.

  8. Dozens of young people attended the demonstration.

  9. Taoism was founded on the teachings of Laozi, a sage born in 604 B.C. in present-day Henan Province.

  10. A timely snow promises a good harvest.