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scenes of the past reappear; evocation of the past
old system / weights and measures of former times
notable former families
lit. new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework / (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)
in former times / the olden days
second-hand book / old book / ancient book
Paleolithic Era
old property (esp. inherited from former generation) / former territory
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old / opposite: new / former / worn (with age)
HSK 3
ex; former lover
the Old World / Eurasia as opposed to the New World 新大陸|新大陆 or the Americas
old style
Old Testament
former agreement / former contract
old friend / former acquaintance
sale of second-hand goods / flea market
San Francisco, California
former name
old affection
former times / the olden days
lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come. / You can't make progress by clinging to old notions.
second-hand car market / used bike market
former custom; old ways
old friend
once familiar places / former haunts
former residence
outdated news / old anecdote; stories passed on from former times
old verse / poetry in the old style
old friends
old illness / former affliction
old wrong / past grievance / wickedness of former times
former times / olden days
Old Testament
old tune / fig. conservative opinion / the same old stuff
old traces / signs from the past
poetry in the old style
former acquaintance / old friend
old friendship
place one has previously visited / old haunts
old illness / former affliction
old calendar / out-of-date customs
old affair / former matter
old dreams
old rules / example from the past / former practices
the Old Religion (i.e. Roman Catholicism) 天主教, as opposed to Protestantism 新教
old teachings; wisdom from the past
old worries with new hatred added (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
old version
one's former subordinates
old acquaintance / former friend
old residence / former home
one's old profession / trade of one's forebears
old term / old way of referring to sth
old learning / Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West
old look / former appearance
second-hand goods / used items for sale
old court case / long-standing legal dispute
replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff
last year / the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar)
old capital
lunar New Year
old capital
lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
old calendar / the Chinese lunar calendar / same as 農曆|农历
old democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem
old and damaged / in disrepair
kyujitai, traditional Japanese character used before 1946
old system / former rules
old grievance / former complaint
(biogeography) the Afrotropical realm
(idiom) to return to a place after a long time away
former site; old location
old posture / former situation
old school / conservative faction
old form of writing / piece in the old style
in the past / formerly
old habit / former custom
former appearance / what it used to look like
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
old friend / former acquaintance
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


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