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age-old

/eyj-ohld/US // ˈeɪdʒˌoʊld //

古老的,古老,古代的,久远的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : ancient; from time immemorial: an age-old tradition.

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Examples

  • However much we gossip about heterosexual couples with large age gaps, we at least refrain from calling them sex offenders.

  • In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.

  • So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.

  • It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.

  • To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

  • Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.

  • Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.

  • His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

  • The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.

  • Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.