| 单词 | old |
| 释义 | old I. 1. a. < beautiful old Japanese traditions — Lafcadio Hearn > b. < old pains keep … gnawing at your heart — Joseph Conrad > c. < an old friend > < old residents of the vicinity — John De Meyer > < comes from an old family > 2. a. < new … standards for old jobs — Bruce Payne > < the old name was readopted at the time of incorporation — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < how slow this old moon wanes — Shakespeare > specifically usually capitalized b. < the old Roman Empire > < repeatedly toured the old Northwest — E.S.Bates > c. of a holiday < Old Christmas > < Old Midsummer Day > 3. a. < a little girl three years old > < a gambrel roofed house over 200 years old > < the campaign was scarcely two days old — P.W.Thompson > b. < old geese retailed at 47¢ lb. > 4. a. < old sacrifices to the Cretan bulls > < mentioned in old histories > b. < interpreting old writers in their own tongue — Benjamin Farrington > < old Hitchcock chairs > < rural simplicity and innocence because in old days, as now, this region lay apart from the active life … near the sea — Samuel Van Valkenburg & Ellsworth Huntington > c. < tenacity of old opinion — H.T.Buckle > < giving new meanings to old words — M.R.Cohen > < chandeliers, which are merely old, as opposed to antique — New Yorker > d. < the old historical lands of Europe — Mark Pattison > 5. a. < an old man with a long white beard > < a tall old virgin pine … spared by fire and woodcutter — American Guide Series: Minnesota > b. < looked old at 20 because of prolonged suffering > < wake up … in a world where no one was conventional or stuffy or old — Margery Sharp > 6. < old in the ways of conspirators — Max Peacock > 7. a. < the old democratic objection to despotism — G.K.Chesterton > < ministers … who spoke the old tongue — Oscar Handlin > < the grandfather's clock still stands in the same old place > < retained all of his old alertness and charm — F.J.Mather > b. < hundreds of his old students were present — L.M.Crosbie > < the badge … is treasured among old members of our squadron — L.G.Pine > 8. a. < old books > < old wine > < old pasture > < marks the northern end of an old sea wall — H.Lovegrove > — often used to express disparagement < give mamma that dirty old stick > generalized affection < good old Santa Claus > < our little old wobbledy calf — Eugene Field > < a great old establishment — Sinclair Lewis > familiarity < fifty years ago, there was only one kind of pneumonia — just plain old pneumonia — R.J.Huebner > < back to the same old grind > personalization < the old stomach did a buck and wing — P.G.Wodehouse > or as an intensive < having a high old time > especially of any < come any old time, I'll be home all day > < not any old ink will print well — Séan Jennett > b. < a wide, nearly level floor … characterizes an old valley — W.J.Miller > c. obsolete < the rest were ragged, old, and beggarly — Shakespeare > d. < the profitable … reworking of old tailings — American Guide Series: Nevada > e. Synonyms: < some illustrious line so ancient that it has no beginning — Edward Gibbon > < the civilization of China is ancient — Havelock Ellis > < poets of ancient Greece > < ancient pre-Inca Peruvians — Current Biography > < the decrepit manager who was too ancient and incompetent for more serious employment — Ellen Glasgow > venerable usually implies respect or veneration < venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation — Daniel Webster > < the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity — Nathaniel Hawthorne > but sometimes emphasizes decrepitude < a venerable Hudson whose driver makes periodic stops to wield a screwdriver and siphon gasoline — Claudia Cassidy > antique is a close synonym of ancient; it is likely to apply to something old-fashioned that has acquired value through rarity or nostalgic charm < a savor of the antique, primeval world and the earliest hopes and victories of mankind — Laurence Binyon > < antique monsters, older than Italy and Greece, than Babylon and Carthage — Llewelyn Powys > < such prosperous cities had already in Leland's day outgrown their antique suits of stone armor — G.M.Trevelyan > < an antique clock > antiquated usually applies to what is discredited or deprecated as outmoded < we are apt to scorn our neighbor because his rate of motion is faster or more sluggish than our own. He is antiquated if he clings to the values of yesterday — A.L.Guérard > < as antiquated as the powdered periwig of an eighteenth century courtier — Waldemar Kaempffert > antediluvian carries an even stronger sense of deprecation < up-to-date models of scientific inquiry have steadily replaced the antediluvian constructions of an earlier generation — Ethel Albert > archaic applies to what belongs to or has the characteristics of an earlier period < when new opinions have overthrown the archaic institutions, they will create new institutions in harmony with themselves — S.M.Crothers > < Portugal at this time, archaic in its chivalry, had the most resplendent court in Europe — Francis Hackett > < methinks is an archaic construction > obsolete applies to what has been entirely displaced or superseded < obsolete as the feudal baron — J.C.Snaith > < the relationship between the English king and the English people is a relationship far more modern and far better fitted to the needs of the times than the obsolete language and the obsolete trappings of the court suggest — D.W.Brogan > < instructing his civil officers in California to regard General Kearny's orders as obsolete — Irving Stone > II. 1. obsolete < they must not be gelded … in the old of the moon — Richard Surflet & Gervase Markham > 2. < in days of old when knights were bold — Edward Thomas > 3. < had come to the park when she was a five-year-old — W.A.White > < for 14 and 15 year olds the reduction has been about 38 percent — American Child > < entered a promising two-year-old in the Derby > • - of old III. < old-established > IV. < doing it the same way all the time will get old — Laurie Sue Brockway > |
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