Brilliant as he may be, he's in his late eighties now and apt to be forgetful.

尽管他很聪明，但他现在已经80多岁了，而且容易健忘。

He ran a property development business in the eighties.

他在80年代经营一家房地产开发公司。

He began his journalistic career in the early eighties in Australia.

他于八十年代早期在澳大利亚开始了他的新闻事业。

I spent a lot of time in the early Eighties travelling between Waco and El Paso.

在八十年代早期，我花了很多时间往返于韦科和埃尔帕索之间。

He was in his late eighties and had become the country's most respected elder statesman.

那时他年近九十，并且已经成为该国最受尊敬的政界元老。

It is possible to have a microeconomic success and a macroeconomic failure, as Britain did in the late eighties.

微观经济的成功和宏观经济的失败是可能共存的，就像80年代末的英国那样。