柯林斯英汉双解大词典
age-old
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ADJ An age-old story, tradition, or problem has existed for many generations or centuries. (故事、传统、问题等) 存在了数世纪的 [书面]
例：This age-old struggle for control had led to untold bloody wars.
这种由来已久的对控制权的争夺已经导致了无数的血腥战争。
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We can only try to hold fast to the age-old values of honesty, decency and concern for others.
我们只能努力坚守那些古老的价值观：诚实、正派、关心他人。
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Civilian aviation is being disrupted, not by the age-old desires for speed, romanticism and glamour, but by the pressing need to respond to a changing climate.
民用航空正受到干扰，不是因为长久以来的对速度、浪漫主义和魅力的渴望，而是因为迫切需要应对不断变化的气候。
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For each country, researchers estimated the probability that a fifteen-year-old today will die an early death before the age of sixty.
VOA: special.2010.05.05
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Does Milton only seem powerful because he has the force or the strength of the age-old literary canon behind him?
他之所以看起来充满力量,是因为身后的作品被人们奉为文学经典呢？
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Now we'll play a passage of Mozart-- a symphony by Mozart here that he wrote at the ripe old age of nine years.
现在我们要放的这个片段来自莫扎特-,这首交响曲是莫扎特在九岁那年写的。
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