as old as

基本解释

Images of a machine as organism and an organism as machine are as old as the first machine itself.
把机器视为生物以及把生物视为机器的历史，与第一台机器本身的历史一样古老。
In the broadest sense, the practice of one purveyor of goods doing trade with another is as old as commerce itself.
在最广的意义上，这种一个承办商和另一个进行贸易的做法和商业一样古老。
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.
烧掉树木以得到空地是几乎和人类一样古老的伎俩，但是人类的存在也增加了森林对火灾的敏感性。

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.
他姓蒙克特，你们都知道，就像是哈特菲尔德和麦科伊，敌对的家族,两个爱人，和这古老的文学一样。
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This is an analogy as old as, and found in, Homer.
这是在荷马史诗中就发现的类比。
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But he is interested in other data Glaxo will collect in women as old as 45.
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