英语释义

1. very old

片语

As old as Methuselah寿同彭祖

as old as the hills极古老；极旧

as old as dirt陈年古老

as old as Adam极古的，久为人知的

as old gain as作为旧收益作为

as old as time和时间一样古老

as old as hills万古千秋

as old again as年纪比…大一倍

as old as him和他一样大

英汉例句

• clearing woodland by burning it is a trick almost as old as humanity itself, but the presence of man also increases a forest’s susceptibility to fire.

  烧掉树木以得到空地是几乎和人类一样古老的伎俩，但是人类的存在也增加了森林对火灾的敏感性。

• the idea of wireless power transfer is almost as old as electricity generation itself.

  关于无线输电的构想几乎和发电本身一般古老。

• papal diplomacy is almost as old as the papacy.

  教廷外交几乎同教皇的职位一样古老。

• a tax dispute as old as mail-order catalogues turned into warfare this month.

  一项跟邮购目录一样古老的税务纠纷在这个月开战了。

• it may be grey but it is not as old as you might imagine.

  这也许很渺茫，但它并不像你想象的那么年老。

• remember that many injuries and deaths from toy asphyxiation happen to kids as old as 10 or 11.

  请牢记那些发生在10到11岁孩子身上的由玩具引起窒息的伤害和死亡事件。

• they may be as old as the terrestrial ecosystem, ” said sandra baldauf, an evolutionary biologist at uppsala university in sweden.

  「他们可能和陆地生态系统一样古老，」瑞典乌普萨拉大学进化生物学家桑德拉·巴尔道夫（sandrabaldauf）说。

• russian fishermen on the volga river catch around 20% of the world「s black caviar, tearing it out of the bellies of giant sturgeon, a species as old as the dinosaurs.

  俄国伏尔加河上的鱼民们提供世界上百分之二十的黑鱼子酱，他们从鲟鱼这种象恐龙一样古老的鱼种的肚子里将鱼子挤出。

• the notion that we live for love is as old as literature.

  为爱而活的概念和文学一样古老。

• anyone closely involved in patents and inventions soon learns that most 「new」 ideas are, in fact, as old as the hills.

  任何与专利及发明密切相关的人很快会得知，多数新的观点事实上已相当陈旧。

• this pattern is as old as cgi scripts.

  这一模式与cgi脚本一样古老。

• forecasting is as old as markets themselves.

  市场预测与市场本身一样古老。

• literature is as old as speech. it grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed.

  斯坦贝克在斯德哥尔摩的受奖演讲中，回应了对他的批评：「文学不是与世隔绝选出来的游戏，文学跟说话一样古老，他因为人们需要而产生，除了变得更加需要，不会有其它改变。」

• literature is not a game for the cloistered elect.literature is as old as speech.it grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed.

  斯坦贝克在斯德哥尔摩的受奖演讲中，回应了对他的批评：「文学不是与世隔绝选出来的游戏，文学跟说话一样古老，他因为人们需要而产生，除了变得更加需要，不会有其它改变。」

• i」ll never again feel as tall as the sky and as old as the hills and as strong as the sea.

  我将再也不会奢求可以像天空一样高大，像山峰一样苍老，像大海一样强悍。

• common sense tells us that damaging a thing as old as earth is somewhat easier to imagine than it is to accomplish – like invading russia.

  常识告诉我们，破坏像地球这样古老的东西是想象比实际做到要来得容易的—就像入侵俄罗斯一样。

• as such, this question is as old as sgml, the precursor of xml, and has been hotly debated with no universally accepted consensus.

  这个问题像xml的先驱sgml一样古老，而且曾经历过热烈的辩论，只是最后也没有广泛地达成一致。

• now that i'm as old as the hills, i have only my darling cuddly dogs to kiss, probably hundreds of times a week.

  既然我现在已经老了，我只亲吻我那些逗人喜爱的小狗，大概一周能亲吻几百次。

• while blogging may be relatively new, the rules for achieving the success you desire are as old as humanity.

  尽管博客相对而言还是新生事物，但取得你渴望的成功的原则还是跟人性一样的古老。

• in the broadest sense, the practice of one purveyor of goods doing trade with another is as old as commerce itself.

  在最广的意义上，这种一个承办商和另一个进行贸易的做法和商业一样古老。

• this date would make the city nearly as old as the end of the last ice age and pre-dates the earliest recorded city states, found in what is now iraq, so seems rather unlikely.

  这个日期使这座城市与上一个冰河期末一样古老，并且也刷新了史上记载最古老的城市（位于现伊拉克境内），因此这看起来相当不可能。

• the split between african savannah and forest elephants is almost as old as the split between humans and chimpanzees. this result amazed us all.

  非洲草原象和森林象之间的分化几乎和人类及黑猩猩间的分化一样古老，这一结果让我们大家都感到吃惊。

• the old man is as old as the old tree.

  这位老人像这棵古树一样古老。

• king knew it for what it was - a bluff as old as the game itself.

  汤姆知道这是怎么回事——这种虚张声势的把戏跟拳击本身一样古老。