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old

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old /əʊld $ oʊld/ ●●● S1 W1 adjectiveadj (comparativecomp older, superlativesupl oldest)  
1  not new 不新的OLD/NOT NEW something that is old has existed or been used for a long time 旧的，陈旧的，年代久远的 OPP new
 a pair of old shoes
一双旧鞋
 Some of the houses around here are very old.
这里有些房子年代已经很久远了。
 one of our oldest traditions
我们最古老的传统之一
 The car’s getting old now, and things are starting to go wrong with it.
这辆汽车现在越来越旧，已经开始出毛病了。
 That story’s as old as the hills (=extremely old).
那个故事非常古老。
2  not young 不年轻的OLD/NOT YOUNG
a) someone who is old has lived for a very long time 年老的，年迈的 OPP young
 an old man
一位老人
 a home for old people
养老院
get/grow old
 I can’t run around like I used to – I must be getting old.
我不能像以前那样东奔西跑了——我一定是老了。
b) the old [plural] people who are old 老年人
 the care of the old and sick
对老人和病人的照料
3  age 年龄AGE used to talk about how long a person or thing has lived or existed (多少)岁
five/ten/fifty etc years old
 I can’t believe you’re nearly forty years old!
我无法相信你都快40岁了！
 a house that’s 300 years old
有300年历史的房子
 How old are you?
你多大年纪？
 Are you older than Sally?
你比萨莉大吗？
 You’re old enough to get your own breakfast now.
你现在已经长大，可以自己弄早餐了。
 I’m not coming skating. I’m too old for that now.
我不去玩溜冰，我现在太老玩不动了。
five-year-old/ten-year-old etc somebody/something
 a six-week-old baby
六周大的婴儿
 a 500-year-old sword
一把有500年历史的剑
somebody is old enough to know better (=used to say that you think someone should behave more sensibly) 某人已长大，应该明白事理
somebody is old enough to be his/her/your mother/father (=used to say that someone is too old to be having a sexual relationship with someone else) 某人的年纪够当他的/她的/你的母亲/父亲了〔用于表示某人年龄过大，不适合成为性伴侣〕
4  BEFOREthat you used to have 以前拥有过的 [only before noun] your old house, job, girlfriend etc is one that you used to have 原先的，原来的，从前的 SYN former
 I met up with one of my old girlfriends at the weekend.
周末我和一位昔日的女友聚了聚。
 My old car was always breaking down.
我以前的那辆车老是抛锚。
 That happened when we were still in the old house.
那件事发生时我们还住在老房子里。
 My old boss was awful!
我原来的老板太差劲了！
old flame (=someone with whom you used to have a romantic relationship) 旧情人，老相好
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5  familiar 熟悉的 [only before noun]USED TO/ACCUSTOMED TO old things are things that are familiar to you because you have seen them or experienced them many times before 老一套的，熟悉的
6  very well known 相识已久的 [only before noun]LONG TIME an old friend, enemy etc is someone you have known for a long time 相识很久的，旧交的
7  the old days PASTtimes in the past 旧日的时光，以前
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in the old days• And yet nothing is like it was in the old days.• It was easier in the old days.• That might have been in the old days, but not since the missionaries and business men come in.• He said that in the old days men came here probing for gold trying to find their lode.• It was dug by an escaping prisoner in the old days; my aunt knows all about it.• He said that in the old days, the street trees were elm, maple, and ash.• Kept absolutely meticulous accounts, even in the old days when he was a kid.• That was in the old days when it was different.
8  the good old days/the bad old days PASTan earlier time in your life, or in history, when things seemed better or worse than now 过去的好日子/坏日子
9  be/feel/look like your old self BETTER/RECOVEREDto feel or look better again after you have been ill or very unhappy 感觉/看上去恢复了原来的样子
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be/feel/look like your old self• After five months in the hospital, I'm feeling like my old self again.
10  any old thing/place/time etc spokenUNIMPORTANT used to say that it does not matter which thing, place etc you choose 随便哪个东西/地方/时间等都行
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any old thing/place/time etc• He could play with Orlando any old time.• If you believed that, then you'd believe any old thing.
11  any old how/way spokenUNTIDYCARELESS in an untidy or careless way 凌乱地；随便地
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any old how/way• By this time nobody was paying any attention, just stamping round any old how.• The doctors and nurses knew too and just treated you any old way.• Go back to living in proper departments instead of any old how all over the place.• Like you they want to dance-not just any old way but a la Alvin Ailey.• They've dropped things just any old how, he thought, listening to the distant chattering of the nomes.• There's some stand any old how, you'd be really ashamed of them.
12  good/poor/silly old etc somebody spokenKNOW somebody used to talk about someone you like 可爱的/可怜的/傻乎乎的等某人〔说到自己喜欢的人时用〕
13  a good old something  (also a right old something British English) spokenENJOY/LIKE DOING something used to talk about something you enjoy 用于谈论喜欢的事
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a good old something• But even marriage to a good old boy has not opened all arms to Fonda.• It was high time, he intimated, that he and old Barney got together for a good old chinwag.• If you need thrills, excitement and a good old dose of adrenalin, then the Ducati is a top option.• He was a good old man, and I still miss him.• He was a good old mule.• We had a good old time at the reunion.• One of these days Sam is going to come up against a good old time proper door.• Our only hope is a good old winter storm over the Christmas holiday.
14  old devil/rascal etc spoken used to talk about someone you like and admire 淘气鬼，调皮鬼
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old devil/rascal etc• He is not a character I like at all because I think he was just an old rascal.• I really miss the old devil.• Not that he's the worst of them, poor old devil.• Yet, in spite of everything, David Miller grew up to idolise the old rascal.• Impotent old devils and dried-up hags always deride the efforts of the young.• A true old devil, Manson vanishes in a puff of smoke.• There was one old devil with red eyes.
15  old fool/bastard/bat etc spoken not politeDON'T LIKE used to talk very rudely about someone you do not like 老糊涂/老混蛋/老太婆等〔用于粗鲁地谈论不喜欢之人〕
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old fool/bastard/bat etc• He was no more to her, he thought, than a tiresome old man, an old fool.• Look there that old fool Broom, slipped off to sleep.• An old fool if you like.• Am I to be troubled by a skinny old fool in mirror shades?• The old bats included a plastic, an aluminum and a wooden one.• She thought what an undecided old fool Phoebe was, but it made her outburst at the Frolic all the more courageous.• But then the old fool should have been a little less unwashed and boring.
16  the old guard OLD-FASHIONEDa group of people within an organization or club who do not like changes or new ideas 〔机构或俱乐部内的〕守旧派，保守派，保守分子
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the old guard• The trouble is that his men have done just as badly as the old guard.• Soon many of the old guard felt his hand upon them.• But the old guard in the leadership sends in the tanks and introduces a new phase of vicious repression.• By agreeing to run, Daley gave up his Senate seat and angered some of the old guard on the South Side.• Would she like to abandon the old guard, she was asked?• Meanwhile, like the Old Guard, the conventional wisdom dies but does not surrender.• To the old guard there is no such place.• But now what had happened to the old guard was happening to him, too.
17  be an old hand (at something) EXPERIENCEDto have a lot of experience of something (在某方面)是老手，经验老到
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be an old hand (at something)• These were old hands, and Dawn Run was effectively still a novice.• Helms is an old hand at backroom politics.• Habitat is an old hand at changing habits of a lifetime.• Blue is an old hand at such compositions and has never had any trouble with them.• Pete Zimmerman is an old hand at water initiatives.• We are old hands in the public-school system.
18. be old before your time OLD/NOT YOUNGto look or behave like someone much older than you, especially because of difficulties in your life 〔尤指因经历过磨难而〕显得成熟，显得老成
19. for old times’ sake REMEMBERif you do something for old times’ sake, you do it to remind yourself of a happy time in the past 看在往日的情分上，念及老交情
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for old times’ sake• A slight drizzle appeared, just for old times' sake.• I just thought it might have been kinda fun, you know, for old times' sake.• Then one day, just for old times' sake, I paid a visit to Winston Street.• This was really just for old times' sake, just for fun.• Or even, for old times' sake, one of the left splinter parties.
20. the old country especially American EnglishAmESANCOUNTRY/NATION the country that you were born in, but that you no longer live in, used especially to mean Europe 〔移民等的〕祖国，故国〔尤指欧洲国家〕
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the old country• A change of citizenship did not of course imply a divorce from the old country.• I remember hearing stories in my childhood about how women like that were stoned to death in the old country.• Real yearning for the old country.• They were very religious people that come over here from the old country.• It is one of the oldest country houses in Northamptonshire.• So what if Uncle Cedric escaped from the Old Country one step ahead of the law?• In the Old Country people developed a special taste for TSHUHlnt, since it was different from ordinary cooked meals.• If Kevin wanted a root in the old country, then this, she decided, must be it.
21. an old head on young shoulders SENSIBLE British EnglishBrE a young person who seems to think and behave like an older person 少年老成
22. pay/settle an old score PUNISHto punish someone for something wrong that they did to you in the past 报旧仇，了结宿怨
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pay/settle an old score• Oh, I heard plenty of rumours, but they were nearly all based on settling old scores.• There was no place like the thick of battle for settling an old score.• With the championship having been decided, this was likely to be their last chance to settle old scores.
23  of/from the old school OLD-FASHIONEDold-fashioned and believing in old ideas and customs 老派的，守旧的
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of/from the old school• Harris was a newspaperman of the old school.• At such a time, with his formal dress, he looked like a diplomat of the old school.• I had to have ideas about how to sell the packages even though my business was still of the old school.• Oscar was from the old school.• He was of the old school, complete with stiff collar and bowler hat, and he was a good all-rounder.• As a soldier of the old school, Eisenhower felt his responsibility was to protect the nation's security.• The overall effect was grandfatherly-a gentleman of the old school, fusty, faintly absentminded, and deeply courteous.• This one was of the old school: giddy and flirtatious.• He was one of the old school, not exactly sleeping under hedges, but an itinerant caddie.• They sweep aside the qualifications and reservations which monetarists of the old school would occasionally express.
24. old wives’ tale BELIEVEa belief based on old ideas that are now considered to be untrue 无稽之谈；愚蠢的信仰；迷信
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old wives’ tale• It's not true that if trees have a lot of fruit in the autumn it will be a cold winter - that's just an old wives' tale.• Some dismiss these as myth in the sense of old wives' tales.• That's only an old wives' tale.• Whatever doctors, old wives' tales, and the Roman Catholic Church may say, human ovulation is invisible and unpredictable.• And so the old wives' tale continues.• The old wives' tales that have answered the pleas of fathers for centuries are mostly ineffective.• I think it's an old wives' tale that make-up ruins the skin.
25  of old literary from a long time ago in the past 往日的，从前的
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of old• heroes and kings of old
26. Old English/Old Icelandic etc SLLan early form of English, Icelandic etc 古英语/古冰岛语等
n GRAMMAR: Order of adjectives
If there is more than one adjective, the adjectives are usually used in a fixed order.
You say:
There are some nice old houses.
✗Don’t say: There are some old nice houses.
You say:
She was dressed in old black clothes.
✗Don’t say: She was dressed in black old clothes.
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 3: used to talk about how long a person or thing has lived or existed
phrases
be 5/10/50 etc years old
My dad is 45 years old.
a five-year-old/fifteen-year-old etc somebody/something
a three-year-old boy
how old is …?
‘How old is your daughter?’ ‘She’s ten.’
be too old for something
He was too old for military service.
be old enough to do something
You’re old enough to help with the cooking.
somebody is old enough to know better (=used when you think someone should behave more sensibly)
He’s old enough to know better, but he went and did it anyway!
somebody is old enough to be somebody’s mother/father (=used when you think that someone is much too old to be having a relationship with another person )
Why would she want to go out with someone who was old enough to be her father?
 THESAURUS
person 人
old having lived for a long time 旧的；年代久远的 年老的，老迈的
an old man
一位老人
I’m too old to learn a new language.
我年纪太大，没法学一门新的语言了。
elderly a polite word for old 年老的，年迈的〔较old礼貌〕
an elderly lady
一位年长女士
a home for the elderly (=elderly people)
养老院
nIf you are elderly, you may be eligible for financial assistance.
aging (also ageing British EnglishBrE) [only before noun] becoming old 变老的
an ageing rock star
年华逝去的摇滚歌星
the problems of an ageing population
人口老龄化问题
aged /ˈeɪdʒəd/ [only before noun] written aged relatives are very old 〔指亲人〕年迈的
aged parents
年迈的父母
She had to look after her aged aunt.
她得照顾年迈的姑母。
elder brother/sister especially British EnglishBrE [only before noun] an older brother or sister. Elder sounds more formal than older 哥哥/姐姐〔elder听起来比older正式〕
I have two elder brothers.
我有两个哥哥。
ancient [not usually before noun] informal very old – used humorously 极老的〔幽默用法〕
I’ll be 30 next year – it sounds really ancient!
明年我就30岁了——听上去好老哦！
be getting on (in years) informal to be fairly old 上年纪了
He’s 60 now, so he’s getting on a bit.
他现在60岁，有点上年纪了。
be over the hill (also be past it British EnglishBrE) informal to be too old to do something 不再年轻
Everyone thinks you’re past it when you get to 40.
人人都觉得一过40岁就不年轻了。
geriatric [only before noun] relating to medical care and treatment for old people 老年医学的，老年病学的
a geriatric hospital
老年医院
geriatric patients
老年病人
thing 物
old 旧的；年代久远的
an old car
一辆旧车
an old Chinese saying
中国的一句老话
ancient very old – used about things that existed thousands of years ago, or things that look very old 古代的；古老的，古旧的
ancient civilisations
古文明
an ancient Rolls Royce
一辆古旧的劳斯莱斯
antique antique furniture, clocks, jewellery etc are old and often valuable 古董的
an antique writing desk
一张古董书桌
age-old used about traditions, problems, or situations that have existed for a very long time 〔传统、问题或情形〕古老的，存在已久的
the age-old tradition of morris dancing
莫里斯舞蹈的悠久传统
the age-old prejudice against women in positions of power
对担任要职的女性由来已久的偏见
n the age-old problem of nationalism
nage-old hatreds between religious groups
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old• She wanted to have a baby before she was too old.• We also converted naptime into reading time once the children were older.• a six-week-old baby• For the first time in my life, I feel old.• Sue was wearing jeans and an old blue jacket.• It's one of the oldest buildings in San Francisco.• a beat-up old car• The two older children had no legal advice.• I was the youngest one in the family, so I had to wear my sisters' old clothes.• She shouldn't marry him - he's much too old for her.• This was when the need to live together came not from the older generation, but from the child's own family.• I saw Phil with one of my old girlfriends.• Sikes got out of jail in 1983, and was soon back to his old habits.• The Luna Baglioni is one of the oldest hotels in Venice.• How old is your cat?• Do you have any old magazines the kids can cut up?• An old man was in the park feeding the pigeons.• The Biblical story does more than turn the older myth on its head.• a lovely old oak tree• The new stadium is much bigger than the old one.• An older pair tending their spawn.• My parents are giving us their old sofa.• I have two brothers, both older than me.• Joan was nineteen years old when she died.• an old woman• His fewer statements lack that old zing.
as old as the hills• Mortgage scams were as old as the hills.• Slim looked old to me, as old as the hills.
too old for• There would have been nothing unusual about this except that she was almost three, much too old for a crib.• These boys are also too old for day camp and too young for jobs.• He'd thought her a little too old for his own purposes, but always assumed she was there for the taking.• Besides, she's too old for it at forty-five.• This was becoming Stress City and I was too old for it.• She was a bit too old for licking bowls, wasn't she?• Muhammad was too old for the draft.• But he worries that at 72, Dole might be too old for the job.
old flame• In a box in the closet, I found love letters from one of his old flames.• A spot of work here and there, liberally interspersed with rendezvous with an old flame?• Hey, d' you hear about the fire-eater who couldn't go anywhere without meeting an old flame?• I met up with an old flame, and we sat and chatted for a while.• Mealticket Song Me and my old flame came wining-and-dining At this restaurant.• After 17 years of marriage, he left his wife for an old flame he ran into at a high school reunion.• It certainly relit an old flame of interest within me, and sent me off in two different directions at once.• Well he happens to be an old flame of Mummy's.• And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it.
the same old• Very comfortable, but the same old books on Manet, and of course, pictures of Olympia.• It's the same old questions when you walk in there.• All I have to wear are the same old rags I've had for years.• What have I got to say to a man whose idea of manhood is the same old sexist patriarchy?• Network TV has nothing but the same old shows.• For the most part, it's the same old song.• Some of the same old spectres are still present-such as the problem of prepared resources.• It was the same old story-profit over people.• You know... the same old thing.
old friend• Lotte's one of my oldest friends.• By 11am 1,000 people were milling around Parliament Square, keeping off the grass, and greeting old friends.• He was dying and implored you to agree to the match because he and Horatia's father were such old friends.• She loved to meet new people and chat with old friends.• I saw a few old friends at the reunion.• They spoke to my old friend Henry Clerval, and he was very happy to travel with me.• One of my oldest friends in Boston is a woman whom, for now, I will call Ellen.• Today the manager of personnel makes a point of sitting next to his old friend on the daily commuter train.• By 1917, the two old friends were no longer on speaking terms.• But it wasn't just the hope of seeing old friends which had drawn me back.
Origin old
Old English eald
old adjectiveadj
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