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adj.老的;年老的;存在时间长的;古老的;陈旧的;破旧的;成熟的;…岁的;存在…时间的;以前的;过去的;从前的;(表示亲密或熟悉)老…;(为名字组成部分时大写)较早的,最早的,旧的;古的;过时的;古时的;古代的;古老的;老年的;收获得晚的;(用作强化语);

双语例句
  • Aunt Emilie darned old socks.

    埃米莉阿姨把旧袜子补好了。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The old house smells of damp.

    这老房子散发出一股潮气。

    《牛津词典》
  • Jenny is seventeen years old.

    珍妮17岁。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • He recycled all his old jokes.

    他把那些老掉牙的笑话又说了一遍。

    《牛津词典》
  • They were old army comrades.

    他们是部队的老战友。

    《牛津词典》
  • She loved the big old house.

    她喜爱那座古老的大房子。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The old man spoke deferentially.

    那位老人谦恭地说着话。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • She was a mean old harridan.

    她是个刻薄的老泼妇。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Old age can bring many problems.

    人老麻烦多。

    《牛津词典》
  • She got old before her time.

    她过早地衰老了。

    《牛津词典》
  • She's a very sweet old lady.

    她是一位非常亲切的老太太。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • I've fixed up Matthew's old room.

    我已经把马修的旧房间修缮好了。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • He's an interfering old busybody!

    他老爱管闲事!

    《牛津词典》
  • Old houses are often damp.

    老房子大多都潮湿。

    《牛津词典》
  • The old institutions are cracking.

    旧的制度正在瓦解。

    《牛津词典》
  • The old customs are dying.

    旧的习俗正在消亡。

    《牛津词典》
  • They talked like old pals.

    他们像老朋友一样交谈。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Her job is restoring old paintings.

    她的工作是修复旧画。

    《牛津词典》
  • He and I are old friends.

    他和我是老朋友。

    《牛津词典》
  • It's my old mucker John!

    是我的老朋友约翰!

    《牛津词典》
  • Old bones break easily.

    老骨头容易骨折。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • It's a lovely old farm.

    那是个宜人的老农场。

    《牛津词典》
  • This carpet's getting pretty old now.

    这块地毯现在已经很旧了。

    《牛津词典》
  • I'm fourteen years old.

    我14岁。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • He's a nice old fellow.

    他这位老兄人不错。

    《牛津词典》
  • He is ten years old.

    他十岁了。

    《牛津词典》
  • He's a wily old fox.

    他是个诡计多端的老狐狸。

    《牛津词典》
  • His clothes were curiously old-fashioned.

    他的衣服式样陈旧古怪。

    《牛津词典》
  • He's 58 years old.

    他58岁。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • He's growing old.

    他正在变老。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
短语搭配
  • of old

    古时的;从前

  • years old

    …岁(年龄)

  • old man

    情人;丈夫;老头子;父亲

  • old age

    老年;晚年

  • young and old

    老老少少

  • old people

    老年人;老人

近义词
adj. 陈旧的,古老的;年老的
反义词
同义词辨析

ancient, old, antique

这些形容词均含\古代的,古老的\之意。

  • ancient :指很久以前发生或存在的事物。用于描述历史时,指远古时代。

  • old :指长期以来一直存在着的事物,与times连用指古代,与days连用时指从前或旧社会。

  • antique :指已经很古老或颇有古风的事物,一般都具有较高价值。

考纲分布

6年出现 1425

重要程度
  • 74%

    adj 年老的; 古老的

  • 19%

    adj ...岁的

  • 7%

    adj 过去的; 以前的

考纲释义
  • adj. 年老的; 古老的

    真题例句:

    • The old lady wanted to know where the stations waiting room was.

      老太太想知道车站的候车室在哪里。

      [2019年 云南省卷 单项选择]
    • It is an old city with many old museums.

      这是一个有许多老博物馆的古城。

      [2018年 包头市卷 情景交际]
    • Even children and old people can drive them to school and parks.

      甚至小孩和老人都可以开车送他们去学校和公园。

      [2018年 南宁市卷 阅读理解]
  • adj. ...岁的

    真题例句:

    • Now I am a 19-year-old college student.

      现在我是一名19岁的大学生。

      [2020年 哈尔滨市卷 词汇运用]
    • This 5-year-old boy has such a good sense of direction that he never gets lost.

      这个5岁的男孩方向感很好,从来不会迷路。

      [2020年 成都市B卷 阅读理解]
    • If you were ninety years old, what would you plan to do?

      如果你已经90岁了,你打算做些什么?

      [2020年 陕西省卷 阅读理解]
  • adj. 过去的; 以前的

    真题例句:

    • In the old days before computers, to get information, people read books and newspapers.

      在电脑出现之前,人们通过阅读书籍和报纸来获取信息。

      [2020年 河北省卷 阅读理解]
    • The windows and doors come from old buildings around her town that were pulled down.

      窗户和门来自她所在小镇周围被拆除的旧建筑。

      [2020年 锦州市卷 阅读理解]
    • Although he has not played with his old toys for a long time, he still wanted to keep them.

      虽然已经很长时间没玩旧玩具了,但他仍然想留着它们。

      [2018年 沈阳市卷 补全对话]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • the old可泛指“老年人”,这时谓语动词应该用复数形式,

  • 表示“资格老,地位高”,不能用older,而要用elder。

  • 在家庭成员中的同一辈中“长幼”关系应该用elder和eldest,而不用older和oldest。示例:最大的女儿承包了所有的活。误 The oldest daughter does all the housework.正 The eldest daughter does all the housework.

单词辨析
  • ancient指很久以前发生或存在的事物。用于描述历史时,指远古时代。

  • old指长期以来一直存在着的事物,与times连用指旧时光,与days连用时指从前或旧社会。

考纲分布

12年出现 42

重要程度
  • 55%

    adj 老的

  • 14%

    adj 旧的; 以前的

  • 12%

    adj 破旧的

  • 10%

    adj ...岁的

  • 10%

    adj 古老的

考纲释义
  • adj. 老的

    英文释义:

    having lived for a long time; no longer young

    真题例句:

    • Moreover, the older you are, the more likely you will come to a resolution after an argument.

      此外,年龄越大,越有可能在争吵后达成解决方案。

      [2021年 北京卷 阅读表达]
    • Research shows that giving up driving is one of the key reasons for a fall in health and well-being among older people.

      研究表明,放弃驾驶是老年人健康和幸福感下降的关键原因之一。

      [2017年 全国卷3 阅读理解]
    • The Intelligent Transport team have turned an electric car into a mobile laboratory in order to understand the challenges faced by older drivers.

      智能交通运输团队为了了解老年司机所面临的挑战,把一辆电动车变成了移动实验室。

      [2017年 全国卷3 阅读理解]
  • adj. 旧的; 以前的

    英文释义:

    belonging only or chiefly to the past; former or previous

    真题例句:

    • When you sleep, your brain sorts through everything that happened during the day, trying to link new experiences to old memories.

      当你睡觉时,你的大脑会整理白天发生的一切,试图将新的经历与旧的记忆联系起来。

      [2021年 北京卷 语法填空]
    • Seconds later, our lizard emerged from its tank with its old skin flowing behind it.

      几秒后,蜥蜴从水箱里钻了出来,蜕下的皮在身后漂着。

      [2021年 天津卷 阅读理解]
    • Its old skin came off.

      它的旧皮脱落了。

      [2021年 天津卷 阅读理解]
  • adj. 破旧的

    英文释义:

    having the characteristics or showing the signs of age

    真题例句:

    • Dirty shorts and old shoes gave him the appearance of a real beggar and his convincing dialect soon won him the trust of the beggars.

      肮脏的短裤和旧鞋子让他看起来像一个真正的乞丐,他令人信服的方言很快赢得了乞丐的信任。

      [2021年 新高考II卷 完形填空]
    • They think tradition means old things from the past.

      他们认为传统意味着过去的旧事物。

      [2018年 全国卷3 阅读理解]
    • The film classic The Last Picture Show was the last movie shown in the old theater.

      经典电影《最后一场电影秀》是这个老电影院放映的最后一部电影。

      [2017年 全国卷3 阅读理解]
  • adj. ...岁的

    真题例句:

    • Paulo Magalhaes, a 34-year-old Portuguese computer engineer, loves to open his mailbox and find a brightly colored picture of Rome's Colosseum.

      34岁的葡萄牙电脑工程师Paulo Magalhaes喜欢打开他的邮箱,然后发现一张色彩鲜艳的罗马斗兽场照片。

      [2021年 浙江卷 七选五]
    • You must be at least 20 years old.

      你肯定至少有20岁。

      [2021年 北京卷 阅读理解]
    • The 60-year-old is not an actor, but a policeman.

      这位60岁的老人不是演员,而是警察。

      [2021年 新高考II卷 完形填空]
  • adj. 古老的

    英文释义:

    dating from far back; long-established or known

    真题例句:

    • Of the following stadiums, which is the oldest?

      下列体育馆中,哪个最古老?

      [2021年 全国乙卷 阅读理解]
    • Oxford: Includes a guided tour of England's oldest university city and colleges.

      牛津:包括导游参观英国最古老的大学城市和学院。

      [2015年 全国卷2 阅读理解]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • ①在brother、sister、son、daughter、 grandson、granddaughter 等词前常用elder 和eldest:His elder brother was in a car accident last week.上周他哥哥出了车祸。表示两个人中较年长的一个时,用elder:the elder of the two两个人中年长的一个②the old老年人:部分形容词前加定冠词the,表示一类人或一类物

单词辨析
  • ancient指很久以前发生或存在的事物。用于描述历史时,指远古时代。

  • antique指已经很古老或颇有古风的家具、珠宝等,一般都具有较高价值。

  • old指长期以来一直存在着的事物,常用搭配:old times 指古代;old days 指从前或旧社会。

真题例句
  • \I thought it would be useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age\ Joseph Stocke, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year old son.

    2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • A 90-year-old has been awarded \woman of the year\ for being Britain's oldest full-time employee-still working 40 hours a week.

    2019年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文
  • A retired engineer, 76-year-old Wilson has been offering free rides to college students for the past eight years.

    2019年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
  • A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • According to a recent study, four out of ten people under 35 years old are planning to downshift from stressful jobs to a slower pace of life.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文
  • According to the analysis of Babbitt's team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.

    2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Across Britain, burnt toast will be served to mothers in bed this morning as older sons and daughters rush to deliver their supermarket bunches of flowers.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Actually, there's something interesting to see in every corner of Paris: the old buildings, neighborhoods, and the historical monuments.

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文
  • After all, a dollar was a tidy sum for an 11-year-old boy in 1961.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读表达 原文
  • After all, many older people don't begin to experience physical and mental decline until after age 75.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 完形填空 原文
  • An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: a man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street.

    2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • And every week he cleaned old man Mccolgin's chicken house in exchange for manure

    2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • And that's exactly what I did when I was fifteen years old.

    2018年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文
  • As I got a little older, I began to understand what my dad really meant.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • As our society grows old, we need the contributions of our older citizens.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 完形填空 原文
  • As the average age of the population increases, there are more and more old people to care for.

    2016年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文
  • As we accumulated more devices, however, we didn't throw out our old ones.

    2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • At first the price of single copies was seldom a penny-usually two or three cents was charged-and some of the older well-known papers charged five or six cents.

    2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty's people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, miss.

    2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • But unlike school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term resting.

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文
  • But, Kate, I still think old age should be about peace and relaxation.

    2019年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文
  • Many studies show that older parents—today's grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.

    2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Every part of my life changed; no part of my old routine remained.

    2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Failing to find any other way out, they decided to make a walking journey, as they caught sight of an old.

    2018年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文
  • Fares for the senior /disabled customers senior citizens 65 and older and disabled customers may ride for half the regular fare.

    2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Hannah started to think about how she could help, but, of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve the problem of homelessness.

    2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
  • He finds old military medals for sale in antique stores and on the Internet.

    2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • He got an older model than he had expected.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 选项
  • History is much more than the study of dusty old objects and events long past.

    2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • How much may they pay if an 11-year-old girl and her working parents visit the museum?

    2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设
  • However, there's only so much that prep books, websites, and older friends can teach.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • However, those in the 10 to 12 age group were \concerned with how many people like their posts\, suggesting a \need\ for social recognition that gets stronger the older they become.

    2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • I got rid of the old fridge, but I didn't get around to ordering a new one yet.

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文
  • I started studying ballet when I was six years old.

    2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文
  • In China, when a baby is one month old, families name and welcome their child in a celebration that includes giving red-colored eggs to guests.

    2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文
  • It is convenient for old people.

    2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 选项
  • It is the oldest palace in Britain.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 选项
  • It seemed an unending journey, but even as a six-year-old girl I realized that knowing how to read could open many doors.

    2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • It turned out that among other things, he was an eighty-year-old writer.

    2015年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文
  • It was a tradition for the school's old team to play against the new team at the end of spring practice.

    2018年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文
  • It was a woman, pushing an old shopping trolley which was piled with bags.

    2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
  • Keeping older drivers on the road.

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 选项
  • Last week some city officials suggested the city might be interested in turning the old theater into a museum and public meeting place.

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Led by professor Phil Blythe, the Newcastle team are developing in-vehicle technologies for older drivers which they hope could help them to continue driving into later life.

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • My 10-year-old noticed him and make a comment on how bad it must be to have to stand outside in the cold wind.

    2015年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文
  • My older students say it makes them feel young.

    2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • My ten-year-old was growing and changing right before my eyes, into this determined human being with a passion and a mission.

    2016年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文
  • Newly-built wooden cottages line the street, turning the old town into a dreamland.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 单项选择 原文
  • On mu recent visit, I help a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by its mother.

    2016年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文
  • On the whole, our population is getting older.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 完形填空 原文
  • One day, when she was five years old, she was walking with her mother in downtown winnipeg.

    2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
  • One should always be full of passion in his life no matter how old he is.

    2015年高考英语天津卷 答案 选项
  • Oxford: includes a guided tour of england's oldest university city and colleges.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Phil Blythe explains: \For many older people, particularly those living alone or in the country, driving is important for preserving their independence, giving them the freedom to get out and about without having to rely on others.\

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Picking up her \lifetime achievement\ award, proud Irene declared she had no plans to retire from her 36-year-old business.

    2019年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文
  • Research shows that giving up driving is one of the key reasons for a fall in health and well-being among older people, leading to them becoming more isolated隔绝 and inactive.

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Several years ago I received a letter from seventeen-year-old kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always bothered by things.

    2015年高考英语福建卷 完形填空 原文
  • She told me that some of the children lived with an older lady in a shelter while others slept on the streets.

    2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 A 原文
  • She wanted to please her dying old father.

    2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项
  • She was too old to dance.

    2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 选项
  • Some were created by famous artists, including a 19-year-old michelangelo, who in 1494 was appointed by the ruler of florence, italy, to build a snowman in his mansion's courtyard.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • Stephen Francis observed then eighteen-year-old Shelly Ann at a track meet and was convinced that he had seen the beginning of true greatness.

    2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • The 65-year-old Steve Goodwin was found suffering from early alzheimer's.

    2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • The 8-year-old is the joker of the class.

    2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • The books are in every language — new books, ancient books, even a book on the history of iraq that is seven hundred years old.

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 完形填空 原文
  • The film classic the last picture show was the last movie shown in the old theater.

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • The four-year-old dog set off racing after the sheep across several fields and, being a city animal, lost both her sheep and her sense of direction.

    2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • The harmony of old and new.

    2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 选项
  • The intelligent transport team at newcastle university have turned an electric car into a mobile laboratory named \drivelab\ in order to understand the challenges faced by older drivers and to discover where the key stress points are.

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • The Jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.

    2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • The nine-year-old boy decided then that he would be an artist.

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • The old team had no coach, and they didn't even practice to prepare for the game.

    2018年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文
  • Their users consist largely of kids under 20 years old.

    2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项
  • Then my 17-year-old suggested giving him a gift card.

    2015年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文
  • They are no better than the old.

    2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 选项
  • They are sad to part with the old theater.

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 选项
  • They gave money to the old people's home either personally or through their companies.

    2015年高考英语安徽卷 单项填空 原文
  • They replaced their beloved old car with expensive new sports cars.

    2015年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文
  • They think tradition means old things from the past.

    2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • They wear out, and as a result, we get old and eventually die.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 完形填空 原文
  • This joyful show will please everyone, from the youngest to the oldest.

    2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • Though the movie is 30 years old, most of the 250 seats were filled with teary-eyed audience wanting to say good-bye to the old building.

    2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Through the years, I'd run into former students who would provide updates on old classmates.

    2017年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文
  • Traveling along the old silk road is an interesting and rewarding experience.

    2018年高考英语北京卷 单项填空 原文
  • Wang shu, a 49-year-old Chinese architect, won the 2012 pritzker architecture prize — which is often referred to as the nobel prize in architecture — on February 28.

    2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • We're not just keeping these old devices – we continue to use them.

    2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • When I arrived, I saw a 2-to 3-week-old owl.

    2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • When I was nine years old, I loved to go fishing with my dad.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • When my son gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to work, I bought twenty chickens and asked him to take care of them.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 完形填空 原文
  • When their children lived far away from them, these old people felt cut off from the world.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 单项选择 原文
  • When you drive through the redwood forests in California, you will be among trees that are over 1, 000 years old.

    2017年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文
  • Yet knowing we can have more can also create a problem, because when we go to change the way we do things, up come the old patterns and pitfalls that stopped us from seeking what we wanted in the first place.

    2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • You know, when you're fifteen years old in my country, you finish school and then you learn a trade.

    2018年高考英语浙江卷 听力 原文
  • You may have the opportunity to make your biggest difference when you're older.

    2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
考纲分布

12年出现 175

重要程度
  • 81%

    adj (年纪)老的; 岁数大的

  • 13%

    adj 旧的; 以前的

  • 6%

    adj 古老的

  • 0%

    adj 破旧的

考纲释义
  • adj. (年纪)老的; 岁数大的

    英文释义:

    having lived for a long time; no longer young

    真题例句:

    • However, merely having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age.

      然而,仅仅与孩子联系并不能保证晚年的幸福。

      [2016年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • It further widens the gap between the old and the young.

      它进一步拉大了老年人和年轻人之间的差距。

      [2016年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • So say goodnight sooner and it may help you stay active and vital to a ripe old age.

      所以,早点说晚安,它可能会帮助你保持活力,这对岁数大的人来说至关重要。

      [2016年 CET4 听力]
  • adj. 旧的; 以前的

    英文释义:

    belonging only or chiefly to the past; former or previous

    真题例句:

    • Rural kids used to walk a long way to school in the old days.

      以前,农村孩子上学要走很长一段路。

      [2020年 CET4 阅读理解B]
    • Moreover, most adult children provide as much care and support to their aging parents as was the case in the \good old days\.

      此外,大多数成年子女对年迈父母的关心和支持丝毫不亚于“美好旧时光”。

      [2016年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • What does the author say about Italians of the old days?

      作者对以前的意大利人有什么看法?

      [2016年 CET4 阅读理解]
  • adj. 古老的

    英文释义:

    dating from far back; long-established or known

    真题例句:

    • Recently, the restaurant manager Ryan Krivoy decided to replace the wooden deck and he found an old gold coin while replacing the deck.

      最近,餐厅经理Ryan Krivoy决定更换木制甲板,他在更换甲板时发现了一枚旧金币。

      [2021年 CET4 听力]
    • Under the old system in America, a mother was supposed to stay home and take care of her children.

      在美国古老的制度下,母亲应该呆在家里照顾孩子。

      [2020年 CET4 阅读理解B]
    • That‘s why you see it used in all of the older airlines like British Airways.

      这就是为什么你会看到它被用于所有的老牌航空公司,比如英国航空公司。

      [2020年 CET4 阅读理解A]
  • adj. 破旧的

    英文释义:

    having the characteristics or showing the signs of age

    真题例句:

    • Even the old metal lunch boxes have regained popularity.

      甚至旧的金属饭盒也重新流行起来。

      [2020年 CET4 阅读理解B]
    • I managed to sell a lot of my old furniture and put that extra money towards the new material.

      我设法卖掉了许多旧家具,把多余的钱用在新材料上。

      [2020年 CET4 听力]
    • Kids would beg for a new lunch box every year, even if their old lunch box was perfectly usable.

      孩子们每年都会乞求换一个新的饭盒,即使他们的旧饭盒完全可以使用。

      [2020年 CET4 阅读理解B]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • the old可泛指“老年人”,这时谓语动词应该用复数形式,

  • 表示“资格老,地位高”,不能用older,而要用elder。

  • 在家庭成员中的同一辈中“长幼”关系应该用elder和eldest,而不用older和oldest。示例:最大的女儿承包了所有的活。误 The oldest daughter does all the housework.正 The eldest daughter does all the housework.

单词辨析
  • ancient指很久以前发生或存在的事物。用于描述历史时,指远古时代。

  • antique指已经很古老或颇有古风的家具、珠宝等,一般都具有较高价值。

  • old指长期以来一直存在着的事物,常用搭配:old times 指古代; old days 指从前或旧社会。

真题例句
  • This process improves access to relevant information, without old memories interfering.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The old symbols, however, still endure.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of organising people is too rigid for both the modern marketplace and the expectations of employees.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Teams are as old as civilisation, of course: even Jesus had 12 co-workers.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • New information learned pushes old information out.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Leah reflects on a time she listened to the whispers: About the time my daughter was five years old, I started having a sense that ‘this isn't right.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • It prevents old information from forming associations.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • It may see old-age diseases approaching.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Each time you remember the new PIN, you gradually forget the old one.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • And most of us may sometimes feel the frustration of having old memories interfere with new, relevant memories.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than we think.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • They function quite well even in old age.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • It further widens the gap between the old and the young.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Jody has a Ph.D.in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.

    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • Jody has a Ph.D. in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.

    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year- old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fascinating comic strip.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • The weather is terrible, particularly in winter, and there's no interesting old city to make up for it, as there is in Boston.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Maybe I'm just old-fashioned.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • It is an old city with many sites of historical interest.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • That’s due in part to the removal of many of the capital’s old-fashioned black and white taxis.

    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • Leo, why do you say English will become the world language? Hello, yes? No one knows for sure just how old kites are.

    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • Cairo is known for its overcrowded roads, irregular driving practices and shaky old vehicles, but also for its air pollution.

    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • Along with old classics like carrots give you night vision and Santa doesn't bring toys to misbehaving children, one of the most well-worn phrases of tired parents everywhere is that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • And my university classmates are arranging a trip to vi sit our old campus, and I'd love to go with them, but I can't afford both.

    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • At 8 years old, he worked as a kitchen boy for a restaurant in Paris in exchange for room and board.

    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Bird lovers, both young and old, have already responded with excitement at the news.

    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • But it might be time to unlearn that training 一 this summer, a group of culture addicts, artists and community organizers are inviting New Yorkers to write all over the walls of an old house on Governor's Island.

    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Changing building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderful old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy efficient, but still carry great cost.

    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • He will now retrain to fly the bigger Boeing 737s as the old planes are being phased out of service.

    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • However, merely having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age.

    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • I want to make sure that older adults are still able to enjoy their old age, and that they're not spending time in hospital with infections, feeling unwell and being generally weak.

    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Ideas about learning by doing have struggled to become mainstream educationally, despite being old concepts from Dewey and Montessori, Plato and Aristotle, and in the American context, Ralph Emerson, on the value of experience and self-reliance.

    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • In 1977, when he was 17 years old, James Terry Roach and two friends cruelly murdered three people.

    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • In general, the study found that undergraduates were almost as likely as old people to make this mistake and men as likely as women.

    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • It is a mistake to simply equate longevity长寿with issues of old age.

    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • So say good night sooner and it may help you stay active and vital to a ripe old age.

    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • So, for example, my sister's birthday is December 9th and her golden birthday would have been the year she turned nine years old.

    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of organising people is too rigid for both the modern market place and the expectations of employees.

    2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • The government pays about $900 for old ones to be discarded and advertising on the new vehicles helps cover repayments.

    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • The maker philosophy echoes old ideas advocated by John Dewey, Montessori, and even ancient Greek philosophers, as we pointed out recently.

    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • The real impact of our research is going to be on health in old age.

    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • The weather is terrible, particularly in winter, and there's no interesting old city to make up for it, as there is in Boston.

    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • There are mothers pushing strollers, old women with walkers — even in the middle of the day, when it’s 90 degrees out.

    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • This summer, a group of culture addicts, artists and community organizers are inviting New Yorkers to write all over the walls of an old house on Governor's Island.

    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • We want people to be healthy, even when they are old.

    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
考纲分布

12年出现 109

重要程度
  • 37%

    adj (年纪)老的; 岁数大的

  • 30%

    adj 旧的; 以前的

  • 14%

    adj 古老的

  • 14%

    adj (表特定年龄)...岁的

  • 6%

    adj 破旧的

考纲释义
  • adj. (年纪)老的; 岁数大的

    英文释义:

    having lived for a long time; no longer young

    真题例句:

    • Talk to anyone who's a generation not too older and they would most likely comment that children are more spoiled these days.

      和任何一个年纪不大的人交谈,他们很可能会说现在的孩子更被宠坏了。

      [2021年 CET6 听力]
    • You may have a good chance of living to a ripe old age.

      你可能有很大的机会活到高龄。

      [2021年 CET6 阅读理解A]
    • Police and fire services will spend the next 48 hours assessing the \security and safety\ of the 850-year-old structure.

      警察和消防部门将在接下来的48小时内评估这座有850年历史的建筑的“安保和安全”。

      [2021年 CET6 阅读理解]
  • adj. 旧的; 以前的

    英文释义:

    belonging only or chiefly to the past; former or previous

    真题例句:

    • Destroying old stock is a practice not just of luxury brands but of less prestigious fashion brands.

      销毁旧库存不仅是奢侈品牌的做法,也是不太知名的时尚品牌的做法。

      [2021年 CET6 阅读理解B]
    • As automation spreads further, the question is how these remote communities will survive when the old jobs are eliminated.

      随着自动化的进一步普及,问题是当旧的工作岗位被淘汰时,这些偏远的社区将如何生存。

      [2021年 CET6 听力]
    • This preoccupation inevitably leads to an old debate: whether nature or nurture moulds us more.

      这种专注不可避免地引发了一场长久存在的辩论:是先天还是后天更能塑造我们。

      [2021年 CET6 阅读理解]
  • adj. 古老的

    英文释义:

    dating from far back; long-established or known

    真题例句:

    • In the film, Dean will be recreated on screen with CGI based on old footage (影片镜头) and photographs, with another actor voicing him.

      在这部电影中,迪恩将会根据以前的镜头和照片,用CGI技术在屏幕上重现,并由另一位演员为他配音。

      [2021年 CET6 阅读理解]
  • adj. (表特定年龄)...岁的

    真题例句:

    • One famous experiment in the 1960s involved 3- to 6-year-old children.

      1960年代的一项著名实验涉及三至六岁的儿童。

      [2021年 CET6 听力]
  • adj. 破旧的

    英文释义:

    having the characteristics or showing the signs of age

必考短语
用法讲解
  • the old可泛指“老年人”,这时谓语动词应该用复数形式,

  • 表示“资格老,地位高”,不能用older,而要用elder。

  • 在家庭成员中的同一辈中“长幼”关系应该用elder和eldest,而不用older和oldest。 示例:最大的女儿承包了所有的活。 误 The oldest daughter does all the housework. 正 The eldest daughter does all the housework.

单词辨析
  • ancient指很久以前发生或存在的事物。用于描述历史时, 指远古时代。

  • antique指已经很古老或颇有古风的家具、珠宝等, 一般都具有较高价值。

  • old指长期以来一直存在着的事物, 常用搭配:old times 指古代; old days 指从前或旧社会。

真题例句
  • Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The old days of the Antarctic being dominated by the interests and wishes of white men from European, Australasian and North American states are over, said Klaus Dodds, a politics scholar at the University of London who specialises in Antarctica.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Meanwhile, emerging technologies – the drones, 3D printers and smart-home devices of the world – now seem a bit too old to be called the next big thing.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • There's an old saying in the space world: amateurs talk about technology, professionals talk about insurance.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • \There's an old saying in the space world: amateurs talk about technology, professionals talk about insurance.\

    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Electronics giants like Best Buy and Samsung have provided e-waste take-back programs over the past few years, which aim to refurbish (翻新) old electronic components and parts into new products.

    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Environmental conscientiousness isn't always enough to make customers recycle old goods.

    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • For instance, DeWalt discovered that many contractors were holding on to their old tools, even if they no longer worked, because they were expensive purchases and it was hard to justify bringing them in to recycle.

    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • historian Paul Lovejoy relates that the cultivation of kola nuts in West Africa is hundreds of years old.

    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • If a fellow says \I'm 94 years old and I worked all my life\, we need to realize, that is how he got to be 94, by staying involved.

    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • If you are a manufacturer who relies on outside distributors, then retailers are the ideal partner for collecting old products.

    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In 2009 an old Russian craft slammed into a communications satellite, creating a cloud of hundreds of pieces of debris and putting other hardware at risk.

    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Instead of discarding their old worn-out jeans, customers bring them in to be renewed.

    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Instead of trying to refine old formulas, they invent new ones.

    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Isn't the issue how old we think we are?

    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Power tool maker DeWalt partners with companies, such as Lowes and Napa Auto Parts, to collect old tools at their stores for recycling.

    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • since the launch of its program, Best Buy changed its policy to add a $25 fee for recycling old televisions in order to keep the program going.

    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Sometimes the old stuff just works better or more efficiently.

    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • The average age of farmers hovers around 58 years old, but he is just 26.

    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • The old days of the Antarctic being dominated by the interests and wishes of white men from European, Australasian and North American states are over, \said Klaus Dodds, a politics scholar at the University of London who specialises in Antarctica.

    2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have survived in the modern world in distinctive, small communities.

    2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • The robotics revolution is set to bring humans face to face with an old fear—man-made creations as smart and capable as we are but without a moral compass.

    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • The studies also ran up against many methodological challenges, the biggest of which centered on the old statistical saying, \Correlation does not equal causation.\

    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • To motivate visitors to bring in more old shoes, Adidas Brazil promotes the program in stores by showing videos to educate customers, and it even offers a discount each time a customer brings in an old pair of shoes.

    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • \We're bringing new blood into the old, conventional farming ecosystem, which is really cool to see,\ Collins explains.

    2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • When Katlyn Burbidge's son was 6 years old, he was performing some ridiculous song and dance typical of a first-grader.

    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
考纲分布

18年出现 67

重要程度
  • 37%

    adj 年老的; 古老的

  • 21%

    adj 旧时的; 以前的

  • 19%

    adj ... 岁的

  • 19%

    n 老人

  • 3%

    adj 破旧的

  • 0%

    adj (old-hat) 过时的; 老一套的

考纲释义
  • adj. 年老的; 古老的

    英文释义:

    having lived or existed for many years

    真题例句:

    • It's not as hard for them to transform their thought processes as it is for older students.

      在转变思维程序方面,他们(小孩)不像年龄较大的学生一样困难。

      [2016年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • I want to share these old truths I've learned along the way.

      我想分享这些我一路上学到的古老真理。

      [2015年 英语二 阅读理解B]
    • An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted — the trouble is, no one knows which half.

      有句老话说,所有广告预算的一半都被浪费了——问题是,没人知道是哪一半。

      [2013年 英语一 阅读理解A]
  • adj. 旧时的; 以前的

    英文释义:

    belonging only or chiefly to the past; former or previous

    真题例句:

    • California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling, particularly one that upsets the old assumption.

      加州要求大法官不要做出大范围的裁决,尤其是推翻旧假设的裁决。

      [2015年 英语一 阅读理解A]
    • We suddenly can't remember where we put the keys just a moment ago, or the name of an old band.

      我们突然想不起刚才我们把钥匙放在哪里了,或者记不起一个老乐队的名字。

      [2014年 英语一 完型填空]
    • There are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes — both new and old — are distributed.

      对于科学奖项——无论是新设的还是既有的——是如何分配的,存在一些合理的担忧。

      [2014年 英语一 阅读理解A]
  • adj. ... 岁的

    真题例句:

    • When Shakespeare was twelve years old the first public playhouse was built in London.

      莎士比亚十二岁时,伦敦建造了第一座公共剧场。

      [2018年 英语一 翻译]
    • Schneider, a 27-year-old auto technician from the Chicago suburbs, says he struggled to find a job after graduating from college.

      来自芝加哥郊区的27岁汽车技术员Schneider说,他大学毕业后很难找到工作。

      [2016年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • A couple of Christmases ago, my youngest stepdaughter, who was nine years old at the time, got a Superman T-shirt for Christmas.

      几个圣诞节前,我最小的继女(当时她只有九岁)得到了一件超人T恤作为圣诞礼物。

      [2016年 英语二 阅读理解B]
  • n. 老人

    真题例句:

    • The old made more life achievements.

      老年人取得了更多的生活成就。

      [2016年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • Young and old converge on one key point.

      年轻人和老年人在关键的一点上达成一致。

      [2016年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • While young and old mostly agree on what constitutes the finish line of a fulfilling life, they offer strikingly different paths for reaching it.

      虽然年轻一辈和老一辈对什么是成功人生的终点大体达成一致,但他们为实现这一目标提供了截然不同的路径。

      [2016年 英语二 阅读理解A]
  • adj. 破旧的

    英文释义:

    having the characteristics or showing the signs of age

    真题例句:

    • Old objects continue to deteriorate.

      旧物品的情况继续恶化。

      [2022年 英语一 阅读理解A]
    • Old telescopes will be removed at the end of their lifetimes and their sites returned to a natural state.

      旧望远镜在达到使用年限时将会被拆除,其原址也将被恢复到自然状态。

      [2017年 英语一 阅读理解A]
  • adj. (old-hat) 过时的; 老一套的

    真题例句:

    • What was once exciting and new becomes old-hat; regret creeps in.

      曾经令人兴奋的新事物变成了过时之物,后悔随之而来。

      [2014年 英语二 阅读理解A]
用法讲解
  • old作形容词,前面加the泛指“老年人”,其谓语动词通常用复数形式,如:The old feel the cold more than the young. 老年人比年轻人怕冷。

真题例句
  • There men wrote and published extensively, reaching both New World and Old World audiences, and giving New England an atmosphere of intellectual earnestness.

    出自-2009年考研阅读原文
  • Instead, the new habits we deliberately ingrain into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.

    出自-2009年考研阅读原文
  • But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the hippocampus, they're there to stay.

    出自-2009年考研阅读原文
  • Many recruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers.

    出自-2011年考研阅读原文
  • An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted-the trouble is, no one knows which half.

    出自-2013年考研阅读原文
  • You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels.

    出自-2014年考研阅读原文
  • As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes—both new and old—are distributed.

    出自-2014年考研阅读原文
  • But, the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes.

    出自-2015年考研翻译原文
  • The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways.

    出自-2015年考研阅读原文
  • California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling particularly one that upsets the old assumption that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest.

    出自-2015年考研阅读原文
  • To limit the number of telescopes on Mauna Kea, old ones will be removed at the end of their lifetimes and their sites returned to a natural state.

    出自-2017年考研阅读原文
  • When Shakespeare was twelve years old, the first public playhouse was built in London.

    出自-2018年考研翻译原文
  • These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.

    出自-2018年考研翻译原文
  • A couple of Christmases ago, my youngest stepdaughter, who was 9 years old at the time, got a Superman T-shirt for Christmas.

    2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain, they're there to stay.

    2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • But while young and old mostly agree on what constitutes the finish line of a fulfilling life, they offer strikingly different paths for reaching it.

    2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling, particularly one that upsets the old assumption that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest.

    2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • I want to share these old truths I've learned along the way.

    2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • Instead, the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.

    2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • Runners range from four year old to grandparents; their times range from Andrew Baddeley's world record 13 minutes 48 seconds up to an hour.

    2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • The concept of man versus machine is at least as old as the industrial revolution, but this phenomenon tends to be most acutely felt during economic downturns and fragile recoveries.

    2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • These men wrote and published extensively, reaching both New World and Old World audiences, and giving New England an atmosphere of intellectual earnestness.

    2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • We suddenly can't remember where we put the keys just a moment ago, or an old acquaintance's name, or the name of an old band we used to love.

    2014年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
  • Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations.

    2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ