I thought that it would be such an uneasy thing to break a 30-year-old habit.

我认为打破30年来的习惯是如此不容易的一件事情。

youdao

She was not, after all, an old maid. No, she was that positive thing, an eternal virgin.

毕竟她可不是老姑娘；相反，她是那种积极的存在，一位永保贞洁的女子。

youdao

It is an age old complaint - that men are incapable of doing more than one thing at once.

男人并没有能力同时处理多件事情，这已经成为一个古老的控诉！

youdao

Another thing is that the customers do not want to take a cyclo with an old man like him driving.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Interest rates are an old, old thing.

利率是个很古老的概念

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In this scene, he's trying to convince an old school friend of his, played by Joseph Cotten, to join this thing.

故事走向,是他试图说服一位老同学，由，Joseph，Cotten，扮演，加入这起勾当。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

With Pinterest, it's kind of a new take on an old thing.

CNN: Report: Pinterest is third most-visited social site

This used to be a good thing until digital disruption came in and made it not so much a bad thing as an old thing.

FORBES: Why Didn't Someone Else Buy Goodreads Before Amazon?

This is only an old thing.

NEWYORKER: The Swan