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old / opposite: new / former / worn (with age)
HSK 3
as before; still / to remain the same
HSK 5
still (remaining) / to remain (the same) / yet
HSK 5
to feel nostalgic / nostalgia
HSK 7-9
old-fashioned
HSK 7-9
shabby
HSK 7-9
former times / olden days
old version
San Francisco, California
outmoded / old-fashioned
old property (esp. inherited from former generation) / former territory
worn out / old-fashioned and dilapidated
old residence / former home
depreciation
old affection
second-hand book / old book / ancient book
old verse / poetry in the old style
outdated news / old anecdote; stories passed on from former times
in former times / the olden days
old affair / former matter
old dreams
same as 舊唐書|旧唐书, History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls
to revive old dreams (idiom); to relive past experiences
to remember old friends / to cherish old friendships / for old time's sake
lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
former site; old location
to reminisce / to talk about former times
as before / as in the past
to resume one's old trade (idiom)
old style
old friend
last year / the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar)
old system / weights and measures of former times
archaic
second-hand goods / used items for sale
conservative / reactionary
usher out the old, greet the new / esp. to see in the New Year
one's former subordinates
Old Testament
former agreement / former contract
lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom); fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old
former acquaintance / old friend
former residence
old calendar / the Chinese lunar calendar / same as 農曆|农历
Gejiu, county-level city in Yunnan, capital of Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous county 紅河哈尼族彞族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州
old capital
old court case / long-standing legal dispute
(idiom) to continue in the same old rut / diehard conservative attitudes
old friends
to restore old way / to return to the past
former custom; old ways
once familiar places / former haunts
old friendship
old look / former appearance
old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse / fig. to repeat an old error / the same old problem
one's old profession / trade of one's forebears
old friends
to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
old acquaintance / former friend
old habit / former custom
old traces / signs from the past
old friend / former acquaintance
old capital
to reminisce
former appearance / what it used to look like
old learning / Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West
old rules / example from the past / former practices
to turn over a new leaf
old friend / former acquaintance
(idiom) to return to a place after a long time away
to act in accordance with the old rules (idiom) / to follow a proven formula
outmoded / decadent / decaying
the Old Religion (i.e. Roman Catholicism) 天主教, as opposed to Protestantism 新教
old teachings; wisdom from the past
replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff
do not recall old grievances (idiom, from Analects); forgive and forget
old illness / former affliction
to replace the old with new (idiom)
old wrong / past grievance / wickedness of former times
to give (sth) an antique look; to artificially age; to distress
relatives and old friends
old term / old way of referring to sth
notable former families
former name
old grievance / former complaint
place one has previously visited / old haunts
History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正 in 974 during Northern Song 北宋, 150 scrolls
History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫 in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋 of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls
Liu Xu (887-946), politician in Later Jin of the Five Dynasties 後晉|后晋, compiled History of Early Tang Dynasty 舊唐書|旧唐书
old school / conservative faction
sale of second-hand goods / flea market
Paleolithic Era
old wine in a new bottle (idiom)
the Old World / Eurasia as opposed to the New World 新大陸|新大陆 or the Americas
the Four Olds (target of the Cultural Revolution)
another name for History of the Five Dynasties between Tang and Song 舊五代史|旧五代史
old wine in a new bottle (idiom)

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