The roaring forties ( part of the Atlantic Ocean,between latitudes of 40 and 50 S)

(大西洋的)风暴带(在南纬40和50之间).

And if the papers don’t give reliable information, their readers get all the more panicky," a man in his forties with a drooping moustache observed in a ringing voice

报纸上没有正确的消息，人心就更加恐慌。”一位四十多岁长着两撇胡子的人说，声音异常高朗。

the roaring forties

北纬40度左右大西洋海面的咆哮西风带.

Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo’s telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse’s great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?

不愿用伽利略望远镜去观察天空的哲学家,难道比19世纪40年代的有些人更应受到谴责吗?当时,这些人断言用Rosse勋爵的大型望远镜观察到螺旋形星云只不过是研磨工留在镜片上的痕迹罢了。

"In our poll of 2,000 people, very few people in their forties or fifties had seen their father cry. Now it is twice as many," he told reporters. "Seventy-seven percent of men considered crying in public increasingly acceptable."

独立研究小组的组长说:“在我们抽样调查的2000人中，40多岁或50多岁的人很少看到过他们的父亲流泪。现在流泪的人数是过去的两倍。77%的男性认为他们越来越可以接受在公众面前流泪。”

Upshaw, a fast-talking, shortstatured, dynamic whippet of a man in his late forties , had been selling drugs all his working life

厄普肖年近五十，讲起来话如同机关枪，身材不高，象一匹冲劲十足的赛犬。开始工作后，他一直干药品推销。

Mr.Smith is still in his forties .

好书如好友,友情永不渝.

Now he was in his forties and his only son had died at the age of three the previous year.

今如海年已四十,只有一个三岁之子,偏又于去岁死了.

Curry enjoyed a degree of notoriety in the late thirties and early forties because of his controversial murals painted for the State House in his native state of Kansas.

卡里在三十年代末和四十年代初到了声名狼藉的地步，因为他为家乡堪萨斯州政府大厦画了些有争议的壁画。

In that Club--more of a mausoleum,really--they’d look on a man in his forties as a mere slip of a boy.

那家俱乐部--其实更像一座陵墓--他们将四十多岁的男子只不过看做一个小男孩而已。

The youngsters leave when they are in their late teens or early twenties. The parents are then just in their late forties or early fifties.

年轻人在20岁左右离开了家园。那时他们的父母也就50岁上下。

a revival of the aggressive,jack-booted militarism of the Thirties and Forties (Saturday Review)

三、四十年代侵略和暴力的军国主义复活(b星期六评论)

a revival of the aggressive,jack-booted militarism of the Thirties and Forties (Saturday Review)

三、四十年代侵略和暴力的军国主义复活(星期六评论)

Mr. Smith is still in his forties .

史密斯先生才四十几岁

the eco-nomic doldrums of the late forties

四十年代后期的经济不景气.

He was the oldest of the group, appearing to be in his middle forties , a powerfully built man with strong, composed features

他是这群人中年纪最大的，似乎有四十五六光景，身材魁梧，面貌坚强沉着。

He was a thinnish fellow, somewhere in his forties .

他瘦瘦的,大约四十多岁。

The policies of the late forties , he said, were no longer "adequate" for the circumstances of the sixties

他说，四十年代后期的许多政策，已经不再能“适应”六十年代的情况了。

He died still in his forties .

他四十多就死了。

He’s in his forties .

他四十多岁。

Temperatures are well up in the forties .

温度足有四十多度了.

Sir Alec was a thin, pale man in his late forties , with a sensitive, aristocratic face and an engaging smile

亚历克爵士是个年近五十的消瘦而苍白的人，他有一张敏感的贵族气派的脸，脸上总要挂着迷人的微笑。

in the nineteen forties

在20世纪40年代(略或

In one’s forties between the ages of 40 and 50

在40 岁到50 岁之间.

in the nineteen forties

在二十世纪四十年代(缩1940`s 或 1940s).

in the fourteen forties

在十五世纪四十年代.

But one difference was the length -- eighteen months. Many recessions since the nineteen forties lasted less than a year.

但是，其中一个不同点是持续时间——18个月。自19世纪40年代以来，大部分经济衰退都持续不到一年时间。

Many French words are used in the arts. For example, a film noir is a movie about murder and other crimes. These films were popular in the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties. Anything in art, music or literature which is very modern or ahead of its time is called avant-garde.

还有许多法语词汇用于艺术。例如，a film noir（黑色电影）是指关于谋杀和其他犯罪的影片。这种影片风靡于二十世纪四、五十年代。任何艺术，音乐或文学的现代或超前被称为avant-garde（前卫）。

If you still need convincing that your forties will be great, Business Insider published a list of 20 books that people should check out in their forties.

如果你还不相信四十岁也是黄金年龄，请看商业内幕网公布的一份40岁必读名单，共20本书。

In the nineteen forties , Drucker argued the desire for profit was central to business efforts. He also warned that rising wages were harming American business.

上世纪40年代，德鲁克主张商业运作的核心是对盈利的渴求。他还警告说提高工资正损害美国商业。

roaring forties

咆哮西风(南半球40～50纬度区域)