| 词汇 | age-old |
| 释义 | age-old adjective[ before noun ] literaryuk /ˌeɪdʒˈəʊld/ us /ˌeɪdʒˈoʊld/ very old: 古老的;由来已久的 an age-old story of love and betrayal关于爱和背叛的古老故事 coming from a time in the past oldBe careful - that clock is very old. formerHe's a former coworker of mine. ancientWe need to protect ancient monuments. archaic"Thee" is an archaic word for "you". Old or old-fashioned ageing ancient antediluvian anti-progressive antiquated fossilize fossilized frumpy fustily have had its/your dayidiom outdate outdated outdatedly outmoded outworn unmodernized unmodish unprogressive unreconstructed unsmart age-old | American Dictionaryage-old adjective us/ˈeɪdʒˌoʊld/ very old, or having existed for a long time: It’s an age-old story of love and betrayal. Examples of age-oldage-old The age-old argument of the "poverty of stimulus" comes immediately to mind. This is a telling criticism only if we confuse the age-old debate about psychological egoism with the argument over evolutionary biology. But it was also involved in an age-old theoretical battle fought by rationalist, reformist and classicist critics. Reviews 593 age-old debates will carry on, insofar as the very issues at stake are still very much alive with us today. In fact, it provides the vocabulary to discuss the age-old opposition between the dominant language and the minority language. The new spiritual order was reinforced by recourse to age-old beliefs. It is the age-old mistake of selling rather than marketing. This is the notion that advances in neuroscience and neurophilosophy have finally solved the age-old mind-brain problem. Truths of this kind could end the age-old debate between descriptivists and prescriptivists - if only both sides would acknowledge them. The advances, which began in the latter half of the nineteenth century, overturned the age-old understanding of axiomatic treatments of a field of mathematical study. The age-old sense of expulsion, of not feeling comfortable, made it easier still. An assumed disruptive, as opposed to supportive, role of women in military life seems to stem from age-old misogynistic perspectives on female behaviour. Perhaps the restless quest to rediscover age-old communities is an integral element of the rootless experience of modernity. Of the age-old rural games only village cricket survived intact. In terms of domestic politics, he was a deregulator who tried to cut the age-old interest lines and reduce the number of overprotected quangos. See all examples of age-old These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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