old country
古国,故乡,古老的国家,古代国家
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- : the original home country of an immigrant or a person's ancestors, especially a European country.
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You might live in a rural area and bike down old country roads for fun, or you may live in the city and bike to work as a cheap, eco-friendly means of transportation.
In that country at that moment, the Catholics have practically disappeared.
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.
Elsewhere, courts throughout the country have placed limits on speech this year.
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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.