温馨玫瑰
你好，楼上回答错误事实上，是要分情况的：表示某一类人的“the+adj）谓语动词一般用复数。但是如果表示的是一个抽象的概念，就用单数比如the old表示老年人时用复数，表示旧的事物时用单数例子：The old feels the cold weather more than the young 老年人比年轻人怕冷The old are there.一群老人在那里。希望我的回答对你有帮助，祝好。
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长辈指辈分较大的人。可以是血亲、姻亲，也可以是邻居等。那么你知道长辈用英语怎么说吗?下面我为大家带来长辈的英语说法，供大家学习。
长辈的英语说法1：
elder
长辈的英语说法2：
eldership
长辈相关英语表达：
尊敬长辈
Respect their elders
长辈的英语例句：
1. Sit down and be quiet in front of your elders and betters.
在长辈和上级面前要老老实实地坐着。
2. The children in our family are always respectful to their elders.
我们家的孩子对长辈总是恭恭敬敬的。
3. Listen to the counsel of your elders.
要听从长辈的忠告。
4. In some things you must trust to your elders.
有些事情你得依靠长辈.
5. You should show greater respect for your elders and betters.
你应该对长辈和上级尊重些.
6. We should not set light by the advice of our seniors.
对于长辈的规劝,我们不应轻视.
7. She shouldn't entreat her elder like that.
她不应那样对待长辈.
8. He exhorted his elder.
他规劝长辈.
9. Listen to the counsel of your elders.
听从长辈们的劝告吧.
10. He is respectful to his elders.
他对长辈很尊敬.
11. What's the use of this endless strife? he wondered.
他想,这样不断地跟长辈冲突有什么好处 呢 ?
12. The young have no respect for their elders.
年轻人不尊重他们的长辈。
13. They discussed important issues in imitation of their elders.
他们模仿长辈的口气讨论重要问题。
14. It may help you when you become an ancestor yourself.
等你做了长辈,说不定有点用处.
15. Major's elders disliked him because he was such a flagrant nonconformist.
梅杰的长辈不喜欢他,因为他这样公开地违反了他们心目中的生活准则.
微尘8313
后辈：son 儿子 daughter 女儿 grandchildren 孙辈 grandson 孙子，外孙
granddaughter 孙女，外孙女 child 孩子
同辈：brother 兄弟 sister 姐妹 twin 双胞胎 husband 丈夫 wife 妻子
长辈：grandfather 祖父 grandmother 祖母 granny 奶奶，外婆 grandma 奶奶，外婆 grandpa 爷爷，外公 father 父亲 mother 母亲 parents 父母
拓展：great-grandfather 曾祖父 great-grandmother 曾祖母 son-in-law 女婿 daughter-in-law 儿媳 father-in-law 岳父（公公） mother-in-law 岳母（婆婆） sister-in-law 妯娌 stepfather 继父 stepmother 继母 stepson 继子 stepdaughter 继女 stepbrother 异父(母)之兄弟 stepsister 异父(母)之姐妹 foster father 养父 foster mother 养母 adopted son 养子 adopted daughter 养女 uncle 叔父，伯父，舅父，姑父 aunt 婶母，伯母，舅母，姑母 nephew 侄儿，外甥 niece 侄女，外甥女 cousin 堂兄妹，表兄妹
