as old as

基本解釋

Images of a machine as organism and an organism as machine are as old as the first machine itself.
把機器眡爲生物以及把生物眡爲機器的歷史，與第一臺機器本身的歷史一樣古老。
In the broadest sense, the practice of one purveyor of goods doing trade with another is as old as commerce itself.
在最廣的意義上，這種一個承辦商和另一個進行貿(mào)易的做法和商業(yè)一樣古老。
Clearing woodland by burning it is a trick almost as old as humanity itself, but the presence of man also increases a forest’s susceptibility to fire.
燒掉樹木以得到空地是幾乎和人類一樣古老的伎倆，但是人類的存在也增加了森林對火災的敏感性。

Winter brings cold weather and, with it,a danger as old as man's knowledge of fire.
He's a Montague, you know, like the Hatfields and the McCoys,the warring families two lovers, it's as old as literature that's here.
他姓矇尅特，你們都知道，就像是哈特菲爾德和麥科伊，敵對的家族,兩個愛人，和這古老的文學一樣。
麻省理工公開課 - 固態(tài)化學導論課程節(jié)選
This is an analogy as old as, and found in, Homer.
這是在荷馬史詩中就發(fā)現(xiàn)的類比。
耶魯公開課 - 現(xiàn)代詩歌課程節(jié)選

But he is interested in other data Glaxo will collect in women as old as 45.
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