adj. world-old
misc. as old as Adam ; as old as the hills ; as old as hills
渔业是极古老的生产事业之一，可能比农业还早。
Fishing is one of the primary forms of food production; it ranks with farming and probably predates it.
物理学家肖恩·卡罗尔(Sean Carroll)就是其中之一。他因为尝试去回答一个目前还没有科学家能够真正解释的古老问题，已经有了一点极客圈摇滚明星的感觉；这个问题就是：时间是什么？
Physicist Sean Carroll has become a bit of a rock star in geek circles by attempting to answer an age-old question no scientist has been able to fully explain: What is time?
也许我们做不到，因为我们喜欢臆想，那句古老的咒语所言极是，我们就处在这么一个“人心惶惶的乱世”之中。
Perhaps we don't because we prefer to imagine, as the old curse goes, that we "live in interesting times."
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