the old Adam

He attributed his wild outburst to the old Adam in him.

他把自己的大发雷霆归因于本性之恶.

But the binary is a belief system at least as old as Adam and Eve, and most people don't even realize it's there.

但是性别二元论是一套起码早在亚当夏娃时代就已成形的信仰体系，大部分人甚至都没有意识到这一思维定势的存在。

Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.

毫无疑问，这种单调与无聊就像亚当一样古老；正是这种古老的单调和无聊，把人类生活中参差百态的幸福消磨殆尽了。

There's a bit of the old Adam in us all.

我们大家身上都有一些不良的本性.

The joke you told us is as old as Adam, but I still think it's funny.

你给我们讲的那个笑话简直老掉了牙, 不过我认为还是很有趣的.