English Dictionary

three score and ten

名詞

古風 慣用表現

(somewhat dated, idiomatic) Seventy, being the number of years in a full lifetime of traditionally-expected duration.

日本語の意味

70（伝統的な期待寿命、すなわち一生を象徴する年数としての数字）

He lived to three score and ten, and even in his old age he still tended the garden with a steady hand.

彼は七十歳まで生き、老いてもなお落ち着いた手つきで庭の手入れを続けた。

意味（1）

(somewhat dated, idiomatic) Seventy, being the number of years in a full lifetime of traditionally-expected duration.

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.