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old [əʊld] ADJ

3. old:

old
(年龄)…岁的 …suì de
at ten years old
在10岁时

7. old inf [招呼用语，表示亲密]:

Old John!
老约翰

Phrases:

as of old
照旧 zhàojiù

age-old ADJ

old boy N Brit

old-fashioned ADJ

old hand N

old-age pension N

old boy network N Brit inf

Usage examples with old

old girl
女性为
Old John!
老约翰
grow old
上年纪
(as) old as Adam
极古的 jígǔde
at ten years old
在10岁时
break down old conventions
打破常规
a nice old thing
不错的老家伙
for old times' sake
为了老交情 wèile lǎo jiāoqing
an old friend
老朋友
an old girlfriend
以前的女朋友
as of old
照旧 zhàojiù
reclaim rubber from old tyres
从旧轮胎中回收橡胶
The old man puffed upstairs.
老人喘着气走上楼。
An old friend married them.
一位老朋友为她们证婚。
a silver-haired old man
银发老人
chip old paint off a container
铲掉容器上的旧漆
Old people often dislike greasy food.
老年人一般都不喜欢吃油腻的食品。
live to a ripe old age
活到高龄

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
She was born into a yachting family and was taken sailing for the first time when only a few weeks old.
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If your five-year-old body and your seventy-year-old body consist of different matter, then what makes them the same body?
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The young man with his spirit friends sat on the edge of a cliff while the old woman walked out into the thin air.
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The movie evidently swerves from old-hat, cut-and-dried storylines that many scary movies offer.
entertainment.inquirer.net
They run up against mysterious regulatory investigations, go-slow bureaucratic practices and old-fashioned investment barriers that hamper their businesses.
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Nobles accused him of trying to change the old ways, and even managed to find fault with the building codes.
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In the 1993 currency reform, 1 nouveau zaire was exchanged for 3,000,000 old zaires.
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Students were transferred from the old campus to this new building and admissions were open to fill up the space.
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The old and infirm who came to be healed, including children were trampled upon in the mass hysteria.
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Launched in 1913, her hull and inner workings were nearing twenty years old.
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