单词 | old-time |
释义 | old-time 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe something as old-time, you mean that it was common or popular in the past but is not common or popular now. ...an old-time dance hall which still has a tea dance on Monday afternoons. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You can use old-time before the name of someone's job to show that they do their job in the way it was done in the past. The effect of that singing, as the old-time reporters used to say, was electrical. ...like an old-time sailor climbing the rigging. Collocations: old-time religion What you get here are four authentically soulful voices on anthems that walk an intelligent line between blues, funk and old-time religion. Times, Sunday Times How did a new religious movement rebrand itself as the 'old-time religion'? Christianity Today While preaching old-time religion, she had no time for old-world attitudes. Times, Sunday Times They stood for old-time religion but used mass marketing and the mass media like no other religious persuasion. Christianity Today Translations: Chinese: 昔日的 Japanese: 昔の |
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