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adj. 陈旧的，古老的；年老的
n. 古时
n. (Old)人名；(英)奥尔德

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This process improves access to relevant information, without old memories interfering.

The old symbols, however, still endure.

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.

Teams are as old as civilisation, of course: even Jesus had 12 co-workers.

New information learned pushes old information out.

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.

It prevents old information from forming associations.

It may see old-age diseases approaching.

Instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.

Each time you remember the new PIN, you gradually forget the old one.

And most of us may sometimes feel the frustration of having old memories interfere with new, relevant memories.

What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than we think.

Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old.

They function quite well even in old age.

It further widens the gap between the old and the young.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The weather is terrible, particularly in winter, and there's no interesting old city to make up for it, as there is in Boston.

Maybe I'm just old-fashioned.

It is an old city with many sites of historical interest.

That’s due in part to the removal of many of the capital’s old-fashioned black and white taxis.

Leo, why do you say English will become the world language? Hello, yes? No one knows for sure just how old kites are.

Cairo is known for its overcrowded roads, irregular driving practices and shaky old vehicles, but also for its air pollution.

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.

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.

At 8 years old, he worked as a kitchen boy for a restaurant in Paris in exchange for room and board.

Bird lovers, both young and old, have already responded with excitement at the news.

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.

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.

He will now retrain to fly the bigger Boeing 737s as the old planes are being phased out of service.

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

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.

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.

In 1977, when he was 17 years old, James Terry Roach and two friends cruelly murdered three people.

In general, the study found that undergraduates were almost as likely as old people to make this mistake and men as likely as women.

It is a mistake to simply equate longevity长寿with issues of old age.

So say "good night" sooner and it may help you stay active and vital to a ripe old age.

So, for example, my sister's birthday is December 9th and her golden birthday would have been the year she turned nine years old.

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.

The government pays about $900 for old ones to be discarded and advertising on the new vehicles helps cover repayments.

The maker philosophy echoes old ideas advocated by John Dewey, Montessori, and even ancient Greek philosophers, as we pointed out recently.

The real impact of our research is going to be on health in old age.

The weather is terrible, particularly in winter, and there's no interesting old city to make up for it, as there is in Boston.

There are mothers pushing strollers, old women with walkers — even in the middle of the day, when it’s 90 degrees out.

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.

We want people to be healthy, even when they are old.

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

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.

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.

There's an old saying in the space world: amateurs talk about technology, professionals talk about insurance.

"There's an old saying in the space world: amateurs talk about technology, professionals talk about insurance."

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.

Environmental conscientiousness isn't always enough to make customers recycle old goods.

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.

historian Paul Lovejoy relates that the cultivation of kola nuts in West Africa is hundreds of years old.

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.

If you are a manufacturer who relies on outside distributors, then retailers are the ideal partner for collecting old products.

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.

Instead of discarding their old worn-out jeans, customers bring them in to be renewed.

Instead of trying to refine old formulas, they invent new ones.

Isn't the issue how old we think we are?

Power tool maker DeWalt partners with companies, such as Lowes and Napa Auto Parts, to collect old tools at their stores for recycling.

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.

Sometimes the old stuff just works better or more efficiently.

The average age of farmers hovers around 58 years old, but he is just 26.

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.

The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have survived in the modern world in distinctive, small communities.

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.

The studies also ran up against many methodological challenges, the biggest of which centered on the old statistical saying, "Correlation does not equal causation."

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.

"We're bringing new blood into the old, conventional farming ecosystem, which is really cool to see," Collins explains.

When Katlyn Burbidge's son was 6 years old, he was performing some ridiculous song and dance typical of a first-grader.

"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.

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.

A retired engineer, 76-year-old Wilson has been offering free rides to college students for the past eight years.

A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common.

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.

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.

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.

Actually, there's something interesting to see in every corner of Paris: the old buildings, neighborhoods, and the historical monuments.

After all, a dollar was a tidy sum for an 11-year-old boy in 1961.

After all, many older people don't begin to experience physical and mental decline until after age 75.

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.

And every week he cleaned old man Mccolgin's chicken house in exchange for manure

And that's exactly what I did when I was fifteen years old.

As I got a little older, I began to understand what my dad really meant.

As our society grows old, we need the contributions of our older citizens.

As the average age of the population increases, there are more and more old people to care for.

As we accumulated more devices, however, we didn't throw out our old ones.

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.

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.

But unlike school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term resting.

But, Kate, I still think old age should be about peace and relaxation.

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.

Every part of my life changed; no part of my old routine remained.

Failing to find any other way out, they decided to make a walking journey, as they caught sight of an old.

Fares for the senior /disabled customers senior citizens 65 and older and disabled customers may ride for half the regular fare.

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.

He finds old military medals for sale in antique stores and on the Internet.

He got an older model than he had expected.

History is much more than the study of dusty old objects and events long past.

How much may they pay if an 11-year-old girl and her working parents visit the museum?

However, there's only so much that prep books, websites, and older friends can teach.

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.

I got rid of the old fridge, but I didn't get around to ordering a new one yet.

I started studying ballet when I was six years old.

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.

It is convenient for old people.

It is the oldest palace in Britain.

It seemed an unending journey, but even as a six-year-old girl I realized that knowing how to read could open many doors.

It turned out that among other things, he was an eighty-year-old writer.

It was a tradition for the school's old team to play against the new team at the end of spring practice.

It was a woman, pushing an old shopping trolley which was piled with bags.

Keeping older drivers on the road.

Last week some city officials suggested the city might be interested in turning the old theater into a museum and public meeting place.

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.

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.

My older students say it makes them feel young.

My ten-year-old was growing and changing right before my eyes, into this determined human being with a passion and a mission.

Newly-built wooden cottages line the street, turning the old town into a dreamland.

On mu recent visit, I help a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by its mother.

On the whole, our population is getting older.

One day, when she was five years old, she was walking with her mother in downtown winnipeg.

One should always be full of passion in his life no matter how old he is.

Oxford: includes a guided tour of england's oldest university city and colleges.

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."

Picking up her "lifetime achievement" award, proud Irene declared she had no plans to retire from her 36-year-old business.

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.

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.

She told me that some of the children lived with an older lady in a shelter while others slept on the streets.

She wanted to please her dying old father.

She was too old to dance.

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.

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.

The 65-year-old Steve Goodwin was found suffering from early alzheimer's.

The 8-year-old is the joker of the class.

The books are in every language — new books, ancient books, even a book on the history of iraq that is seven hundred years old.

The film classic the last picture show was the last movie shown in the old theater.

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.

The harmony of old and new.

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.

The Jazz audience continues to shrink and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with younger generations.

The nine-year-old boy decided then that he would be an artist.

The old team had no coach, and they didn't even practice to prepare for the game.

Their users consist largely of kids under 20 years old.

Then my 17-year-old suggested giving him a gift card.

They are no better than the old.

They are sad to part with the old theater.

They gave money to the old people's home either personally or through their companies.

They replaced their beloved old car with expensive new sports cars.

They think tradition means old things from the past.

They wear out, and as a result, we get old and eventually die.

This joyful show will please everyone, from the youngest to the oldest.

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.

Through the years, I'd run into former students who would provide updates on old classmates.

Traveling along the old silk road is an interesting and rewarding experience.

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.

We're not just keeping these old devices – we continue to use them.

When I arrived, I saw a 2-to 3-week-old owl.

When I was nine years old, I loved to go fishing with my dad.

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.

When their children lived far away from them, these old people felt cut off from the world.

When you drive through the redwood forests in California, you will be among trees that are over 1, 000 years old.

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.

You know, when you're fifteen years old in my country, you finish school and then you learn a trade.

You may have the opportunity to make your biggest difference when you're older.

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

Instead, the new habits we deliberately ingrain into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.

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.

Many recruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers.

An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted-the trouble is, no one knows which half.

You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels.

As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes—both new and old—are distributed.

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.

The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways.

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.

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.

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

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.

A couple of Christmases ago, my youngest stepdaughter, who was 9 years old at the time, got a Superman T-shirt for Christmas.

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.

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.

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.

I want to share these old truths I've learned along the way.

Instead, the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.

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.

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.

These men wrote and published extensively, reaching both New World and Old World audiences, and giving New England an atmosphere of intellectual earnestness.

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.

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.

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