three score and ten

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. Seventy, being the number of years in a full lifetime of traditionally-expected duration. dated,idiomatic
    — "Why, a man with any feeling ought to be ashamed of being eighty, let alone more. Where’s his religion, I should like to know, when he goes flying in the face of the Bible like that? Threescore-and-ten’s the mark, and no man with a conscience, and a proper sense of what’s expected of him, has any business to live longer."

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From the Bible, Psalm 90, verse 10: "The days of our years are three score and ten."
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