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old / opposite: new / former / worn (with age)
HSK 3
as before; still
HSK 5
still (remaining) / to remain (the same) / yet
HSK 5
shabby
HSK 7-9
old-fashioned
HSK 7-9
to feel nostalgic / nostalgia
HSK 7-9
worn out / old-fashioned and dilapidated
Old Testament
former agreement / former contract
old property (esp. inherited from former generation) / former territory
depreciation
out with the old and in with the new (idiom)
lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom); fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old
San Francisco, California
to resume one's old trade (idiom)
old friend / former acquaintance
History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls
conservative / reactionary
old affair / former matter
to reminisce / to talk about former times
to make friends again / to renew old cordial relations
old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem
sale of second-hand goods / flea market
to reminisce
lit. new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework / (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)
as before / as in the past
old style
second-hand goods / used items for sale
former site; old location
old system / weights and measures of former times
old friend
old traces / signs from the past
one's former subordinates
in former times / the olden days
outdated news / old anecdote; stories passed on from former times
old wine in a new bottle (idiom)
notable former families
Paleolithic Era
old affection
once familiar places / former haunts
to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake
old term / old way of referring to sth
last year / the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar)
old court case / long-standing legal dispute
Gejiu, county-level city in Yunnan, capital of Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous county 紅河哈尼族彞族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州
archaic
old residence / former home
place one has previously visited / old haunts
old capital
second-hand book / old book / ancient book
lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
to revive old dreams (idiom); to relive past experiences
old friends
old verse / poetry in the old style
to restore old way / to return to the past
old friends
(idiom) to continue in the same old rut / diehard conservative attitudes
old grievance / former complaint
former appearance / what it used to look like
poetry in the old style
old learning / Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West
to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
old capital
old rules / example from the past / former practices
former times / olden days
History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正 in 974 during Northern Song 北宋, 150 scrolls
old democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
old calendar / the Chinese lunar calendar / same as 農曆|农历
old friendship
old wrong / past grievance / wickedness of former times
old dreams
Old Testament
the Old Religion (i.e. Roman Catholicism) 天主教, as opposed to Protestantism 新教
old teachings; wisdom from the past
to replace the old with new (idiom)
to turn over a new leaf
replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff
new worries added to old hatred (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
old system / former rules
old illness / former affliction
Gejiu, county-level city in Yunnan, capital of Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous county 紅河哈尼族彞族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州
rate of deprecation
old habit / former custom
the Four Olds (target of the Cultural Revolution)
to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
former custom; old ways
the Old World / Eurasia as opposed to the New World 新大陸|新大陆 or the Americas
Destroy the Four Olds (campaign of the Cultural Revolution)
lunar New Year
old wine in a new bottle (idiom)
outmoded / decadent / decaying
old worries with new hatred added (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
to act in accordance with the old rules (idiom) / to follow a proven formula
old friend / former acquaintance
do not recall old grievances (idiom, from Analects); forgive and forget
to resume one's old trade (idiom)
do not neglect old friends
old calendar / out-of-date customs
person who sticks to old ways; a diehard; a conservative

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