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old boy

/ohld -boi for 1, 2; ohld -boi for 3; ohld -boi for 4/US // ˈoʊld ˈbɔɪ for 1, 2; ˈoʊld ˌbɔɪ for 3; ˌoʊld ˈbɔɪ for 4 //

老男孩,老顽童,老伙计,老头子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Informal. an adult male, especially a Southerner.Compare good old boy.
    • : a lively elderly man.
    • : Chiefly British. an alumnus, especially of a boys' preparatory or public school.
    • : Chiefly British. old chap.

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Examples

  • I have always thought that if the old boy can wake a Tennessee bumpkin to literature and history, to irony and rhetoric, he can do anything.

  • On the flip side, it is a closed old boy school with a high-profile sponsor.

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

  • In the 90s, it kept gay men out of leadership roles in the Boy Scouts of America.

  • 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.

  • He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old band.

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

  • A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

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

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

  • You see, I'd always thought of him as the boy whom Great-aunt Lucia described having seen.