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old-timer

/ohld-tahy-mer/US // ˈoʊldˈtaɪ mər //

老前辈,老一辈人,老一辈,老一辈的人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : a person whose residence, membership, or experience began long ago and has been continuing for a considerable length of time; veteran.
    • : an old person.
    • : an old-fashioned person or thing.

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Examples

  • 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.

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

  • Twelve-year-old dance prodigy Maddie Ziegler has suffered the wrath of Dance Moms tyrant Abby Lee Miller.

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

  • 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.

  • Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.

  • But with all her advantages Miss Solomonson failed with the old lord, and she abuses him to this day.