ancient

1 Before they had left his hut, Yishan had tossed some robes and boots at her from a chest that looked as ancient as the gang Pinmei had hidden in.

2 Its “Sinification” involved the drastic homogenization of a huge region in an ancient melting pot, the repopulation of tropical Southeast Asia, and the exertion of a massive influence on Japan, Korea, and possibly even India.

3 While Muslims studied the words of the ancient Greeks, most Europeans turned to counting on their hands, and only a few knew how to read.

4 Some were rusty and ancient; some were shiny and new.

5 An explanation for the decline of ancient science has been put forward by the historian of science Benjamin Farrington: The mercantile tradition, which led to Ionian science, also led to a slave economy.

6 With one side of my family coming from the dessert capital of the ancient world, I was doomed to have a sweet tooth.

7 Something about the way she exhales sounds like she’s happy she’s in this tiny shack in this ancient neighborhood with a bunch of my dad’s relatives.

8 That’s an ancient Greek saying that translated pretty well into American.

9 There is something intrinsically good-natured about all symbiotic relations, necessarily, but this one, which is probably the most ancient and most firmly established of all, seems especially equable.

10 My sister especially enjoyed this ancient dance because of its fast spinning.

11 The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie flat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand.

12 When my father was growing up inside the Old City of Jerusalem—that's the ancient part of town inside the stone wall—he and the kids on his street liked to trade desserts after dinner.

13 Peering through the mists, he glimpsed a broken spire, a headless hero, an ancient tree tom from the ground and upended, its huge roots twisting through the roof and windows of a broken dome.

14 The mathematics of ancient Egypt were based on a decimal system.

古埃及数学以十进制为基础。

15 As Smith walked the horse by, an ancient Indian leaned up and looked the horse over.

16 My grandparents are rather ancient.

我爷爷奶奶都是老寿星.

17 Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

18 He turned a corner and saw two ancient stone towers jutting into the sky, side by side, much taller than anything else in the neighborhood—maybe medieval watchtowers?

19 And his voice was abruptly full of ancient grief.

20 They would sail around the Greek mainland, following the routes that Greek heroes had taken in the ancient times.

1 老掉牙的

threadbare antediluvian moth-eaten

2 旧式

old antique victorian old-fashioned prehistoric antiquated bygone belated overage unfashionable prehistorical mid-victorian early-victorian moss-grown medieval Victorian funky dated feudal antediluvian horse-and-buggy dd. ancientry of the old school o/s primitive outdated obsolete out-of-date outmoded dowdy fusty superannuated rinky-dink demoded demode Model T out of date

3 陈旧的

outdated antiquated out-of-date outmoded time-worn antediluvian clapped-out

4 上古的

pristine antediluvian

5 已往

gone bygone departed preterite preterit foretime foregone

6 年老

old age

7 年代久远

antiquity

8 年代久远的

immemorial

9 自古以来

old-time from of old

10 古老的

old antique aged archaic age-old immemorial vintage venerable medieval antiquated antediluvian auld mossy crusted hoar antiquity old as the hills old school olden old-established as old as the hills secular grey hoary jurassic grey-haired

11 历史悠久的

classic time-honoured

12 老人

old uncle old-timer graybeard oldster oldie elder geriatric wrinkly crinkly golden-ager raisin senile grandsire eld mzee golden ager

13 古老

old vintage venerable immemorial antiquity old school antique age-old olden old-established as old as the hills

14 旗

gonfanon standard sign flag banner ensign pennon gonfalon

15 旗手

vexillary guidon gonfalonier banner-man standardbearer banner bearer colour bearer color-bearer ensign standard-bearer bannerman flag-bearer

16 远古

high primitive primeval immemorial antediluvian Noachian immemorable antiquity ancientry forane mist time immemorial

17 远古的

pristine primeval old antique high primitive immemorial antediluvian Noachian immemorable forane

18 已往的

gone bygone departed preterite preterit foregone

19 老头

geezer senex bodach

20 古人

antiquity

21 很老的

aged

22 过时

desuete ricky-ticky ricky-tick out old vintage outdated dated rusty venerable Neolithic antiquated Corny musty out-of-date belated moldy Old-world outmoded rococo unfashionable dowdy effete dilatory outworn moth-eaten old-timey worm-eaten daggy moss-grown demoded dd. obsolescence date outdate on last legs

23 古代的

old archaic palae- old-world antique olden early primeval palaeo- grey Early gray horse-and-buggy Archaian

24 古

ancientry archaic

25 年老的

old frosty antiquated

26 古旧的

old mossy moss-grown

27 旧

old second-hand olden palaeo- palae- back secondhand

28 旗帜

flag banner Bunting

29 古的

archaic

30 足智多谋的

tricky ingenious resourceful shifty

31 极老的

aged

32 古典作家

classic

33 旧的

back old secondhand

34 老者

grandsire

35 古代

old archaic antiquity palae- old-world antique olden eld early primeval palaeo- grey ancientry remote ages Early gray horse-and-buggy Archaian anciently the youth of the world

36 从前

once former elder colonial erstwhile long-ago has-been whilom back before sometime erst aforetime beforetime erenow eld

37 旧式的

old antique victorian old-fashioned prehistoric antiquated bygone belated overage unfashionable prehistorical mid-victorian early-victorian moss-grown medieval Victorian funky dated feudal antediluvian horse-and-buggy dd. of the old school primitive outdated obsolete out-of-date outmoded dowdy fusty superannuated rinky-dink demoded demode Model T out of date

38 自古以来的

old-time

39 过时的

desuete ricky-ticky ricky-tick out old vintage outdated dated rusty venerable Neolithic antiquated Corny musty out-of-date belated moldy Old-world outmoded rococo unfashionable dowdy effete dilatory outworn moth-eaten old-timey worm-eaten daggy moss-grown demoded dd.