"I beg your pardon, "said the learned man,"it is an old habit with me."

“请原谅，”学者说，“这是我的老习惯了。”

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SECOND SOLDIER: It is an old cistern.

那是一个古代的蓄水池。

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It is an old film but it is very good.

这是老部片子，但很好。

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It is a story of sadness and loss, of the failure of an old Southern family to which the brothers belong.

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The answer is--this goes way back-- it's an old tradition and they used to have to do this by hand.

答案要追溯到很久之前,这是个古老的传统,他们过去用手工计算

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And so frequently what we try and do is, we take a new problem and map it onto an old problem so that we can use an old solution.

我们经常做的一件事就是，我们处理一个新问题时,把它归结为一个老问题,以便我们能采取老的解决方式。

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It is an old town, a throwback, not given to the transience of urban sprawl.

NEWYORKER: Sheriff Joe

It is an old saw on Wall Street that the heads typically roll near the bottom of a downturn.

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However, we have been here before and it is an old corporate PR ploy to under promise and then over deliver.

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