1.表示年代（先说一下年代的表达法）表示在某个世纪的几十年代，用“in the +逢十的基数词的复数”。基数词的复数若用阿拉伯数字表示，可直接加s，也可加’s。如“在20世纪80年代”是in the 1980’s或in the 1980s，读作in the nineteen eighties。如：
Women were only conceded full voting rights in the 1950s.
妇女在20世纪50年代才被容许完全享有选举权。
concede /kənˈsiːd/
v.让步；承认(某事属实、合乎逻辑等)；允许；(尤指勉强地)让与
He's a leftover from the hippies in the 1960s.
他是20世纪60年代嬉皮士的残余分子。
In the expansive 1990s bright graduates could advance rapidly.
在经济发展快速的20世纪90年代，有才华的大学毕业生可以发展很快。
The novel is set in London in the 1960s.
这部小说以20世纪60年代的伦敦为背景。
In the 1990s the Labour Party rebranded itself as New Labour.
工党于20世纪90年代重塑形象，改称新工党。
All the steelworks around here were closed down in the 1980s.
这一带的所有钢铁厂都在20世纪80年代倒闭了。
He served under Edward Heath in the 1970s.
他曾于20世纪70年代在爱德华∙希思手下任职。
During the 1980s the green movement gathered momentum.
20世纪80年代绿色运动的势头开始增强。
The car's design is a throwback to the 1960s.
这种汽车的设计回到了20世纪60年代。
Industry in Britain has been in decline since the 1970s.
英国工业自20世纪70年代以来一直在走下坡路。
She's been around as a film director since the 1980s.
自20世纪80年代以来她一直是活跃在影坛的著名导演。
The graph shows how house prices have risen since the 1980s.
此图表明了自20世纪80年代以来房价上涨的情况。
The civil war lingered on well into the 1930s.
这次内战到20世纪30年代还拖了好几年。
These slums are an epitaph to the housing policy of the 1960s.
这些贫民窟是20世纪60年代住房政策的遗迹。
The building is a prime example of 1960s architecture.
这座大楼是20世纪60年代的典型建筑。
As late as the 1950s, tuberculosis was still a fatal illness.
直到20世纪50年代，结核病仍然是一种致命的疾病。
During the 1980s the green movement gathered momentum.
20世纪80年代绿色运动的势头开始增强。
By the 1960s the situation had changed fundamentally.
到20世纪60年代形势已发生了根本的变化。
2.年代初（期）、年代中期、年代末（期）
请看经典例句：
Oil production peaked in the early 1980s.
20世纪80年代初期，石油产量达到了最高峰。
The economic gloom of the early 1980s was relieved by fanciful architecture.
20世纪80年代初期的经济萧条气氛因各种奇异古怪建筑的出现而有所缓解。
The house was built in the early 19th century
这所房子建于19世纪初期。
I first made his acquaintance in the early 1960s
我与他初次相识是在20世纪60年代早期。
In the early 1990s, it was easy to get into the rental business
20世纪90年代早期，进入租赁行业很容易。
There are interesting parallels between the 1960s and the late 1990s.
20世纪60年代和90年代后期存在着有趣的相似之处。
He burst onto the fashion scene in the early 1980s.
20世纪80年代初他突然在时尚界活跃起来。
The scale of migration took a quantum leap in the early 1970s.
20世纪70年代初，移民的规模骤然扩大。
Automation revolutionized the olive industry in the early 1970s.
自动化技术在20世纪70年代早期给橄榄油产业带来了一场革命。
In the early 1960s, Blyton fell victim to Alzheimer's disease
在19世纪60年代早期，布莱顿患上了老年痴呆症。
The Beatles were discovered in the early 1960's.
甲壳虫乐队于20世纪60年代初为世人所知。
In the mid 60s he took the almost obligatory trip to India.
六十年代中期，他也赶时髦到印度一游。
By the mid-1980s, change was in the wind again.
20世纪80年代中期，变革又呈山雨欲来之势。
The National Collegiate Athletic Association introduced drug testing in the mid-1980s.
美国大学体育联合会在20世纪80年代中期开始实行药物检测。
It's nothing like what happened in the mid-Seventies.
这跟70年代中期的情形截然不同。
Current economic activity is markedly slower than during the go-go years of the mid to late 1980s.
目前的经济发展明显慢于20世纪80年代中期到末期的迅猛增长时期。
The mid 1970s are seen as a cultural wasteland for rock music.
20世纪70年代中期被视为摇滚乐的文化荒漠。
The island has been partitioned since the mid-seventies.
自从70年代中期以来，这个岛就分裂了。
This custom was still current in the late 1960s.
这种习俗在20世纪60年代末仍然很普遍。
The school was built in the late 1970s.
这所学校建于20世纪70年代末。
He was governor of the province in the late 1970s
他在20世纪70年代末担任该省的省长。
In the late 1850s the speed of technological change quickened
19世纪50年代末期，技术变革的速度加快了。
He defected from the party in the late 1970s.
他在20世纪70年代后期叛出了该党。
Maya Angelou first staged the play 'And I Still Rise' in the late 1970s.
马娅·安杰卢在20世纪70年代后期第一次将戏剧《我还会站起来》搬上了舞台。
In the late 1980s, the last few condors were taken from the wild to be bred ．
在20世纪80年代末,最后几只秃鹫被从野外带回来繁殖。
In the late Seventies, things had to be new, modern, revolutionary.
20世纪70年代晚期，一切都要新奇、时髦、标新立异。
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