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outdated news / old anecdote; stories passed on from former times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


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