Old

(noun.) past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old').

(adj.) of a very early stage in development; 'Old English is also called Anglo Saxon'; 'Old High German is High German from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century' .

(adj.) skilled through long experience; 'an old offender'; 'the older soldiers' .

(adj.) of long duration; not new; 'old tradition'; 'old house'; 'old wine'; 'old country'; 'old friendships'; 'old money' .

(adj.) (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; 'his mother is very old'; 'a ripe old age'; 'how old are you?' .

(adj.) (used for emphasis) very familiar; 'good old boy'; 'same old story' .

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• Old Steiler was standing at the porch of his hotel. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• May I ask how old he is, ma'am? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• They mostly began to reign as old men, and their reigns were short, averaging less than two years each. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The grate might have been the old brazier, and the glow might have been the old hollow down by the flare. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• So old an art, and so great and continuous a need for its products necessarily must have resulted in much development and progress. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands, said Mrs. March decidedly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The energy which had at once supported him under his old sufferings and aggravated their sharpness, had been gradually restored to him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• He was mentally the new thing in history, negligent of and rather ignorant of the older things out of which his new world had arisen. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At Cnossos there are Neolithic remains as old or older than any of the pre-dynastic remains of Egypt. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As brittle as crockery, sir, and as old as the church, if not older. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Blandois accepted the commission with his own free elegance of manner, and swore he would discharge it before he was an hour older. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Why, then, it is that you will marry some one very rich and very worthy, much older--five and twenty years, perhaps--than yourself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The foreign commerce of Portugal is of older standing than that of any great country in Europe, except Italy. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The older one, who had been so fierce, began to sob. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Old Uncle Peter sung both de legs out of dat oldest cheer, last week, suggested Mose. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Sarkoja was at this time Tars Tarkas' oldest and most trusted female. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• We seem to want the oldest and simplest human clothing where the clothing of the earth is so primitive. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• That the oldest had still hopes of living one day longer, and looked on death as the greatest evil, from which nature always prompted him to retreat. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The oldest friend I ever had, and not-- She was not always your friend, Amelia, the Major said, for he was quite angry. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• There is nothing to eat over there, and the oldest boy came to tell me they were suffering hunger and cold. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Damascus dates back anterior to the days of Abraham, and is the oldest city in the world. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Wessex Plate [it ran] 50 sovs each h ft with 1000 sovs added for four and five year olds. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.

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