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old country

古国,故乡,古老的国家,古代国家

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the original home country of an immigrant or a person's ancestors, especially a European country.

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Examples

  • 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.