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My new job is much the same as the old one.

我的新工作和旧工作差不多。

I went to see if my old school was still there.

我去看过母校是否依然存在。

The judge thought he'd been led astray by older children.

法官认为他已经被那些年长的孩子们带坏了。

Older mothers tend to be too idealistic about the pleasures of motherhood.

较年长的母亲往往对身为人母的乐趣过于理想化。

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

如果你等待，发生的只有变老。

The city is a mixture of old and new buildings.

这座城市是新老建筑兼而有之。

Old values are being grafted onto a new social class.

旧的价值观念正植根于新的社会阶层。

When he got older I nicknamed him Little Alf.

当他大一点时，我给他起了个“小阿尔夫”的绰号。

The older child should be able to prepare a simple meal.

那个年纪稍大的孩子应当会做一顿简单的饭菜。

The new methods are radically different from the old.

新的方法迥然不同于旧的方法。

I'd say he was 25 to 30 years old.

我猜他在25至30岁之间。

Can you really get that old car going again?

你真能让那老爷车再跑起来吗？

Such problems are a universal feature of old age.

这类问题是老年人的通病。

Some of the older telephones still only accept tokens.

一些较老式的电话机仍然只收代币。

Many of the older pitmen may never work again.

很多年纪更大的矿工也许再也不干活了。

An older woman, pink-cheeked and tweedy, appeared in the doorway.

一位面颊绯红、一副乡下贵族打扮的老妇人出现在门口。

She was about thirty, ten years older than the youngsters ragging her.

她大概有30岁，比那些嘲弄她的年轻人大10岁。

Would you like my old TV in exchange for this camera?

用我的旧电视机换这架照相机，你愿意吗？

The new sports centre will take the pressure off the old one.

新的体育运动中心将减轻老体育运动中心的压力。

As people get older, they get set in their ways.

随着年龄的增长，人就积习成性。

They have successfully combined the old with the new in this room.

他们在这个房间里成功地把古老和现代的风格融为一体。

The older you get the more distrustful you become.

年纪越大就越多疑。

The children give her hell, particularly the older boys.

这些孩子让她吃足了苦头，特别是那些年龄大一点的男孩子。

Now let me see ─ how old is she now?

让我想一想，她现在多大了呢？

She's getting old ─ she's 75 next year.

她上年纪了，明年就75岁了。

There are plenty of plus points about being an older first-time mum.

年龄稍长再做妈妈有很多好处。

The older people were left to carry on as best they could.

年纪大一点的人被留下来，奋力坚持。

Underage youths can obtain alcohol from their older friends.

未到法定年龄的青少年可以从年龄较大的朋友那里弄到酒。

Several of the new EU members from central Europe are facing banking and financial crises and the older members have refused to bail them out.

来自中欧的几个欧盟新成员国正面临银行业危机和金融危机，而资格更老的成员国已拒绝对它们纾困。

The older people had stopped being neighbourly to each other.

老人们彼此已不再友好相待。