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outdated news / old anecdote; stories passed on from former times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


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