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Old-time means typical of what used to exist or used to be done. Old-time dancing, old-time values, an old-time shop. The feeling is usually warm, like a memory, not an insult. In American English, old-time music is also a set name for an older kind of folk playing, often with a fiddle. Elsewhere the phrase is looser: it just says “from those earlier days.” Like old-style, it almost always comes before a noun. You would not normally say “the music is old-time” the way you say “the music is old.” Friendly, everyday English.
舊時的、老派的
組成From old + time. Time is a very old English word (Old English tīma).
同家族的字
- old-fashionedshares old; both point at things that belong to an earlier time
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
old-timeadj
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From or reminiscent of an earlier time or era; old-fashioned.
- He likes to listen to old-time music.
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Ancient; persisting since ancient times.
- Had a pterodactyl swooped down from those old-time crags, it would hardly have been out of place.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。