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(jī)器視為生物以及把生物視為機(jī)器的歷史，與第一臺(tái)機(jī)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(gè)承辦商和另一個(gè)進(jìn)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(duì)火災(zāi)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，你們都知道，就像是哈特菲爾德和麥科伊，敵對(duì)的家族,兩個(gè)愛人，和這古老的文學(xué)一樣。
麻省理工公開課 - 固態(tài)化學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
This is an analogy as old as, and found in, Homer.
這是在荷馬史詩(shī)中就發(fā)現(xiàn)的類比。
耶魯公開課 - 現(xiàn)代詩(shī)歌課程節(jié)選

But he is interested in other data Glaxo will collect in women as old as 45.
FORBES: Glaxo Goes Head-To-Head With Merck