greybeard

1 A clear divide exists between the rich world, with its young leaders, and the emerging one, with its legions of greybeards.

2 The demographics of its U.S. audience are not encouraging: 56% of those who saw the movie were male, but 63% were over 30 — greybeards in movie audience terms.

3 A greybeard, staff in hand, led the stumbling beast.

4 By then she had 15 months of field data from Gombe, most of it gathered through patient observation of individuals she knew by monikers such as David Greybeard, Mike, Olly, and Fifi.

当时她已经在冈贝考察了15个月，收集了大量的野外数据，这些数据大多是通过对某些黑猩猩个体的耐心观察而得到的，珍还给这些黑猩猩分别取名为灰胡子大卫、麦克、奥利和菲菲。

5 The greybeards hated the archaism of Burne-Jones's dense application of scumbled and rubbed watercolour, designed to mimic the tempera techniques of early renaissance painters.

6 “First you must needs come through us, ser,” said the eldest of them, a hard-faced greybeard whose bloodstained surcoat showed three silvery mermaids upon a violet field.

7 Since 1980, no candidate has secured a spot atop the Republican ticket without carrying South Carolina, the greybeards like to say.

8 Two decades ago the French Academy, a group of 40 greybeards charged with keeping the language pure, decided to reform French spelling.

9 He was a greybeard of seventy years of age, in a gardener's apron, with watery eyes and a bent back.

10 Why, that Bishop, London chap as he is, is a greybeard beside you.

11 But no, the government-sponsored greybeard conceded – even though both candidates wanted it a lot, this one should get it because she wanted it the most.

12 People familiar with the negotiation said the five had become less worrisome as the years wore on, and were now considered "greybeards" or elders unlikely to assume top battlefield roles.

13 And as I passed a greybeard said, 'Here used to stand of old A city built by giants, and passing rich in gold.'

14 David Greybeard was eating meat.

大卫·格雷·彼尔德在吃肉！

15 And, behind him, three greybeards, who had posted themselves in the recess of a window, were whispering some risqu� remarks.

16 What about Old Greybeard In The Sky?

那么该拿那位天空中的灰胡子老人怎么办？

17 Those who remain are for the most part greybeards and priests, good for nothing but to assemble in private coffee-houses, and to prate treason together. 

18 A greybeard wagged over the bulwark, and a thick voice yelled something Harvey could not understand.

19 Let us live, my Lesbia, live and love; and, as for the slanderous tongues of greybeards, value them all at a farthing’s worth.

20 He also wrote drily to a friend in late 1847: “It would be pleasant to have the Nantucket girl carry off the prize from all the greybeards and observatories in Europe.”

1 老人

oldster dodderer

2 老头儿

gaffer bugger codger

3 老年人

crumbly grandad senile