one's old profession; trade of one's forebears
second-hand book; old book; ancient book
old affair; former matter
old friend; former acquaintance
old form of writing; piece in the old style
old rules; example from the past; former practices
old system; weights and measures of former times
old calendar; the Chinese lunar calendar; same as
農曆
once familiar places; former haunts
former site; old location
old learning; Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West
old residence; former home
last year; the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar)
old posture; former situation
old grievance; former complaint
old wrong; past grievance; wickedness of former times
old and damaged; in disrepair
old friend; former acquaintance
old teachings; wisdom from the past; old church; the Catholic church 天主教 as opposed to Protestantism 新教
in former times; the olden days
old court case; long-standing legal dispute
old school; conservative faction
place one has previously visited; old haunts
old property (esp. inherited from former generation); former territory
old illness; former affliction
old illness; former affliction
old acquaintance; former friend
old term; old way of referring to sth
former agreement; former contract
former appearance; what it used to look like
former acquaintance; old friend
old verse; poetry in the old style
old look; former appearance
(lit.) old account; old debt; (fig.) old scores to settle; old quarrels; old grudge
second-hand goods; used items for sale
old traces; signs from the past
one's former subordinates
old anecdote; stories passed on from former times
the Old World; Eurasia as opposed to the New World
新大陸 or the Americas
kyujitai, traditional Japanese character used before 1946
former times; the olden days
old calendar; out-of-date customs
old tune; (fig.) conservative opinion; the same old stuff
sale of second-hand goods; flea market
second-hand car market; used bike market
(lit.) new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework; (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)
old democratic revolution; bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
relatives and old friends
still (remaining); to remain (the same); yet
as before; like before; old; still
to reminisce; to talk about former times
the Four Olds (target of the Cultural Revolution)
to restore old way; to return to the past
conservative; reactionary
worn out; old fashioned and dilapidated
to remember old friends; to cherish old friendships; for old time's sake
fond remembrance of times past; nostalgia
depreciation; (of property, cars, etc) to depreciate
as before; as in the past
outmoded; decadent; decaying
the conservative faction; reactionaries
to turn over old accounts; (fig.) to revive old quarrels; to reopen old wounds
do not recall old grievances (idiom, from Analects); forgive and forget
dwelling on the past; difficulty in adapting to changes
do not neglect old friends
usher out the old, greet the new; esp. to see in the New Year
to make friends again; to renew old cordial relations
to revisit; to return to a previously visited spot
to raise the same old topic again; to hark back
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