英语释义

• belonging to or lasting from times long ago;

  "age-old customs"

  "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness"

片语

age-old education古代教育

age- too old年龄偏大

old(Old)人名；(英)奥尔德

age-old custom古老的风俗

Age-old Malpractice积弊

ancient古代人；老人

age-old village中国古村落

age-old post古墓帖

age-old lexicon现代字书

Age-old Controversy年龄引发的争议

英汉例句

• obama can rely on those age-old perceptions of the two parties, but only if he also reinforces them.

  奥巴马可以信赖那些两党之间古老的认同，但他现在也只能依靠这个。

• the question of what we「ve experienced and how we experienced it is leading into our next unsolved brain mystery -- the age-old question of consciousness.

  有关我们经历了什么，以及我们如何经历的疑问，引导我们进入下一个大脑未解之谜---古老的意识问题。

• so subtlety is out and it」s back to the age-old problem for both men and women: who has the guts to risk rejection with the direct approach?

  所以，有了更细微的问题，也即对于男人和女人，都回到那古老的问题：谁更有胆量承担拒绝直接态度的风险？

• buddha is very wise, and you can learn much from his age-old teachings if only you open your heart and your mind.

  佛陀是很明智的，如果你打开你的心扉和你的理智，那么，你能够从他古老的教谕中学到很多东西。

• and it is why foreign policy is condemned to live with an age-old dilemma.

  同时也是为什么外交政策无奈成为一个由来已久的两难问题。

• this tracking can help answer the age-old question: who「s using this service?

  这个跟蹤功能可以帮助回答一个很古老的问题：谁在使用此服务？

• instead of wanting to overthrow the kremlin, most russians want putin to turn up personally and solve their problems - an age-old model in which putin plays the role of benevolent tsar.

  大多数俄罗斯人不是要推翻克里姆林宫，只是希望普京露面解决他们的问题：一个古老的模式，由普京扮演慈爱的沙皇。

• this is an age-old approach, recommended by many country grandmothers.

  这是一种古老的方法，由许多乡村老奶奶推荐。

• there」s the age-old advice to quit smoking, get on a healthy diet and exercise. then there's a drug treatment called statins that can help lower your ldl levels.

  古老的方法是戒烟、按规律饮食和锻炼，还有一种药物疗法即使用他汀类药物，这种药物可以使低密度脂蛋白的水平降低。

• after all it is an apparently age-old method of establishing status.

  毕竟那显然是一个确立地位的古老的方法。

• but this is japan, whose age-old belief in nature is at least evenly matched by an unyielding faith in technology.

  对自然有着由来已久的信仰，同时也对科技有着不屈的信念，这两者至少是不相上下的。这就是日本。

• still, we are steadily edging closer to answering the age-old questions.

  虽然如此，我们仍坚定地向着这些古老的问题的答案靠近着。

• but the solution would represent such a dramatic reversal of age-old catholic doctrine as to undermine any pretense of papal infallibility.

  但这个解决之道将代表着对古老的天主教教条的完全推翻，而这将是对教皇的不可更改性的大大的不恭。

• selectively breeding a wild plant or animal species for certain desirable traits began as a fitful process of trial and error motivated by that age-old imperative: hunger.

  为了某些可取的特性，人类选择性地繁育野生植物或动物物种，这一开始是一个断断续续的反复试验过程，驱动它的是由来已久的紧迫之事——饑饿。

• it contains beautiful natural scense, unique minority amorous feelings, age-old minority cultures, and rich tourist resources.

  它有美丽的自然环境，独特的民族风情，古老的少数民族文化，旅游资源非常丰富。

• and in 1911, three years after her death, revolutionaries owing allegiance to him overthrew both the qing dynasty and the age-old system of imperial rule.

  1911年，也就是慈禧死去三年后，效忠与孙的革命者不仅推翻了清王朝，也从此颠覆了古老的帝制时代。

• whether it is strong enough to overcome the age-old human instinct that swamps are there to be drained remains to be seen.

  至于是否强大到足以克服古老的将湿地排干的人类的本能，，仍有待观察。

• a second conclusion concerns the age-old maxim never to deploy a force without giving it a clear military mission.

  第二个结论与那句古老的箴言有关：在分配清晰的军事任务给部队之前，绝不要将部队部署出去。

• scientists believe the existence of this age-old reward mechanism indicates there is an evolutionary advantage in sampling the unknown.

  科学家认为，脑部这种古老的奖励机制在尝试未知事物方面有进化优势。

• paradoxically, perhaps the biggest hurdle the initiative faces is not civil liberties worries but the age-old barrier between federal law enforcement and its state and local counterparts.

  荒谬的是，这项倡议面临的最大障碍可能不是对公民自由的担心，而是由来已久的存在于联邦法律执行部门与州和地方执法部门之间的矛盾。

• like ice for a burn or a lozenge for a cough, a cup of hot tea is an age-old balm for sniffles, sneezing and stuffiness.

  就像烧伤用冰块冷敷，或者咳嗽含一片止咳糖，对于抽鼻子、打喷嚏、鼻塞，喝一杯热茶是一个由来已久的民间偏方。

• age-old wisdom suggests it is not what but whom you know that matters.

  古老的智慧认为对人的影响最大的并不是你知道些什么，而是你认识谁。

• this was barefoot boy against bantamweight pisces, and the age-old fight was on.

  这是与小型鱼纲做斗争的光脚男孩，古老的战斗正在进行着。

• even as images on cards, or as ornaments hanging in a window, angels perform their age-old function as messengers and mediators between the seen and unseen, or material and spiritual, worlds.

  即使是作为贺卡上的图像，或者挂在窗上的装饰，天使都履行着他们作为可见世界与不可见世界之间以及物质世界与精神世界之间的信使和媒介者这个古老的职责。

• yet many japanese, says yamashita, want the emperor to continue the long tradition of leading shinto rituals, encouraging age-old cultural practices, and inspiring the nation.

  山下先生认为，仍有许多日本人希望天皇可以延续长久以来传统的神道仪式，促进古老的文化习俗，并给整个民族以激励。

• but there’s an age-old problem working against our utopian dreams of the web uniting the world: the language barrier.

  但是，对网络统一世界的乌托邦式梦想，还有一个古老的问题：语言障碍。

相似词

antiquated使古旧；废弃（antiquate的过去分词）

相反词

modern现代人；有思想的人

new新的，新鲜的；更新的；初见的

recent最近的；近代的