Olden
['əʊld(ə)n] or ['oldən]
解释:
(a.) Old; ancient; as, the olden time.
(v. i.) To grow old; to age.
校对:迈克尔
同义词及近义词：
a. [Rare.] Ancient, old, not modern.
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例句:
- We have all read of the castles in olden days into which the owner could retire and raise a drawbridge across a ditch, thus putting a barrier in the way of his enemies. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Were not the mightiest men of the olden times kings? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- In the war many gypsies have become bad again as they were in olden times. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- On the whole, he was like a baron of the olden time in a rare good humour. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- We were going simply to see the old trees, the old ruins; to pass a day in old times, surrounded by olden silence, and above all by quietude. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- In the olden days the wage of battle was almost universally decided by the strength of brawn, and the higher qualities of mind were subservient. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- They only know now there is a war and people may kill again as in the olden times without a surety of punishment. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- It had been customary, as in olden times, to push the apparatus forward by a horse or horses hitched behind. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
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