hoary

来自hoar,灰白的。引申词义头发灰白的，陈旧的。

hoary (adj.)

1510s, "gray or white with age" (of hair); c. 1600 as "venerable, ancient;" from hoar + -y (2). Related: Hoariness.

1. a hoary old joke

老掉牙的笑话

来自《权威词典》

2. They discussed the hoary old problem.

他们讨论老问题.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. Without a word spoken, he hurried away, with his hoary head bending low.

他什么也没说, 低着白发苍苍的头, 匆匆地走了.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4. Hoary Mount Tai looked more precipitous.

古老的泰山越发显得崔嵬了.

来自汉英文学 - 现代散文

5. A venerable building -- grey , even in the midst of the hoary landscape.

一座尊严的建筑 —— 便是在一片白茫茫景色之中也很幽暗.

来自辞典例句

1. showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair;

"whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge

"nodded his hoary head"

2. ancient;

"hoary jokes"

3. covered with fine whitish hairs or down

a hoary old joke

老掉牙的笑话

牛津词典

...the hoary old myth that women are unpredictable.

“女人心，海底针”这种老一套的鬼话

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Without a word spoken, he hurried away, with his hoary head bending low.

他什么也没说, 低着白发苍苍的头, 匆匆地走了.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

But as the years have passed, what were once fresh ideas have hardened into hoary dogmas.

但是随着时间的流逝, 一度新鲜的观念也变成了陈腐的教条.

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They discussed the hoary old problem.

他们讨论老问题.

《简明英汉词典》

I say, aren't you John Hoary?

我说, 你不是约翰亨利 吗 ?

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The hoary peasant mused over his past sufferings.

这位白发的农民默想着他过去所受的苦难.

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A venerable buildingDDgrey, even in the midst of the hoary landscape.

一座尊严的建筑――便是在一片白茫茫景色之中也很幽暗.

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The pore on nose is very big, there also is hoary head inside, how to do?

鼻子上的毛孔很大, 里面也有白头, 怎么办?

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I suspect it to be hoary frost on the floor.

疑是地上霜.

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Tackling this hoary puzzle requires expertise in several fields, including cryptography, linguistics and medieval history.

要解决这个古老谜团,必须旁及好几个领域的专门知识, 包括密码学 、 语言学和中世纪历史等.

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Covered with short , fine whitish or grayish hairs or down ; hoary .

(生物学)覆盖着纤细的白色毛发或者 绒毛.

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His hoary hair showed his age.

他的花白的头发显示出了他的年龄.

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The hero of the epic poem was described as being hoary with age.

这部史诗的主人公被描绘成白发苍苍的老人.

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Everything is hoary , grisly, bristling with merriment, swollen with the future, like a gumboil.

一切都是古老的、可怖的, 叫人笑得毛骨惊然, 像牙龈脓肿, 充满了未来气息.

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And though the fields hoary dew.

尽管露水笼罩得田野灰白暗淡.

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He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

32它行的路随后发光, 令人想深渊如同白发.

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No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

苍白的谎言欺骗不了我, 沉闷的教条束缚不了我!

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The night was very large , and very strange, stretching its hoary distances infinitely.

夜空寥廓, 不可思议, 茫茫伸向无垠的远方.

辞典例句

He told us a hoary old english joke that we'd all heard many times before.

他给我们讲了一个我们都听了很多次的老掉牙的英语笑话.

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a hoary old joke

老掉牙的笑话

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》