The grand old man was not convinced.

然而那位老前辈并未信服。

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Now he is, at 38, the grand old man of the N.B.A..

今年，他已经38岁了，成了一位功勋卓著的老兵。

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Joseph Gurney Cannon, grand old man of Congress, will retire from public life.

美国国会元老乔瑟夫·葛尼·卡农即将退出公众生活。

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By the time he died Sir Colin Davis was the grand old man of British classical music.

BBC: Obituary: Colin Davis

Now, even Starcraft, the grand old man of competitive PC gaming, is at least considering Free-to-play as an option.

FORBES: Could Starcraft 2 Go Free to Play?

Nonsense, argues Peter Odell, a grand old man of oil forecasting who proved wrong the pessimists of the 1970s.

ECONOMIST: Oil and geopolitics