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单词 age-old
释义
age-old
adjective[before noun]
literary
uk
/ˌeɪdʒˈəʊld/us
/ˌeɪdʒˈoʊld/
veryold:
古老的；由来已久的
an age-oldstoryofloveandbetrayal关于爱和背叛的古老故事
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
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".
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Old or old-fashioned
  • ageing
  • ancient
  • antediluvian
  • anti-progressive
  • antiquated
  • creaky
  • fossilize
  • fossilized
  • frumpy
  • fusty
  • have hadits/yourdayidiom
  • hoary
  • neanderthal
  • outdated
  • outmoded
  • outworn
  • passé
  • petrified
  • vintage
  • went out with the arkidiom
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(Definition ofage-oldfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

age-old| American Dictionary

age-old
adjective
us
/ˈeɪdʒˌoʊld/
veryold, or havingexistedfor alongtime:
It’s an age-oldstoryofloveandbetrayal.
(Definition ofage-oldfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofage-old

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Theage-oldargument of the "poverty of stimulus" comes immediately to mind.
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This is a telling criticism only if we confuse theage-olddebate about psychological egoism with the argument over evolutionary biology.
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But it was also involved in anage-oldtheoretical battle fought by rationalist, reformist and classicist critics.
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Reviews 593age-olddebates will carry on, insofar as the very issues at stake are still very much alive with us today.
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In fact, it provides the vocabulary to discuss theage-oldopposition between the dominant language and the minority language.
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The new spiritual order was reinforced by recourse toage-oldbeliefs.
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It is theage-oldmistake of selling rather than marketing.
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This is the notion that advances in neuroscience and neurophilosophy have finally solved theage-oldmind-brain problem.
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Truths of this kind could end theage-olddebate between descriptivists and prescriptivists - if only both sides would acknowledge them.
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The advances, which began in the latter half of the nineteenth century, overturned theage-oldunderstanding of axiomatic treatments of a field of mathematical study.
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Theage-oldsense of expulsion, of not feeling comfortable, made it easier still.
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An assumed disruptive, as opposed to supportive, role of women in military life seems to stem fromage-oldmisogynistic perspectives on female behaviour.
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Perhaps the restless quest to rediscoverage-oldcommunities is an integral element of the rootless experience of modernity.
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Of theage-oldrural games only village cricket survived intact.
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In terms of domestic politics, he was a deregulator who tried to cut theage-oldinterest lines and reduce the number of overprotected quangos.
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