hoary
英 ['hɔːrɪ]
美['hɔri]
- adj. 久远的，古老的；灰白的
中文词源
hoary 头发发白的，陈旧的
来自hoar,灰白的。引申词义头发灰白的，陈旧的。
英英释意
- 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
英文词源
- hoary (adj.)
- 1510s, "gray or white with age" (of hair); c. 1600 as "venerable, ancient;" from hoar + -y (2). Related: Hoariness.
实用场景例句
- 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》