Most civil services still tend to be gerontocracies, where age and seniority are synonymous.

大部分公务员还是倾向于老人统治，这一词是年龄和资历的同义词。

A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952) comprise a contribution to modern fiction that is far more substantial than Fitzgerald's and that approximates Faulkner's.

《永别，》（1929), 《丧钟为谁 而鸣》（1940)和《老人与海》（ 1952年），加上他出色的 短篇小说故事，对现代小说的贡献远远超过斯科特.菲 茨杰拉德的小说，可以和福克纳相提并论。

Gared did not rise to the bait. He was an old man, past fifty, and he had seen the lordlings come and go. Dead is dead, he said. We have no business with the dead.

盖瑞并未中激将之计，年过五十的他也算得上是个老人，这辈子看过太多贵族子来来去去。" 死就是死，" 他说，" 咱们何必追寻死人。"

Young children and the elderly are especially vulnerable.

幼童和老人尤其易受影响。

Santa Claus is coming to town. Santa is coming to town.

圣诞老人就要进城。圣诞老人就要进城。

Maybe you said things like: in job interviews, in business meetings or negotiations, when talking to older people, when writing business emails, and so on.

在工作面试、商务会议或谈判中，和老人交谈时，商业邮件写作，等等。

The car swerved to avoid the old man.

车突然转向，为避开这位老人。

The people who are most likely to die from Legionnaires' disease are the elderly and people who have underlying medical problems. AZUZ: It was a weekend of honoring those who served their countries.

最容易因军团病致死的人群是老人和有潜在药物问题的人群。阿祖兹：这周人们纪念那些为保家卫国的人。

The old man was a prolific writer.

这位老人是一位多产的作家。

They lauded the virtues of the old man.

他们称赞这位老人的美德。

Firefighter, football player, Santa Claus, Indiana Jones, a sloth.

消防员，足球运动员，圣诞老人，印第安纳琼斯，树懒。

And this stand offers free bananas. Those who distribute them are affectionately called Beneatha's.

这里也有免费的香蕉，而发香蕉的人，人们也亲切地称之为香蕉老人。

We've isolated old people and we've cut off the children from their grandparents.

我们把老人孤立，把子女和祖父母隔绝开来。

Got that old man mustache, and eyebrows.

还有老人胡子和眉毛。

If the table has a senior guest, say something as upbeat and cheerful as possible.

如果有老人在，最好多说些吉祥，开心的话。

Heat waves sometimes kill people who are very old, very young or in poor health.

高温可能会威胁到老人、幼儿以及身体虚弱者的生命。

I see an old man, some shoes, and elves, too.

我看到一个老人、一些鞋子和精灵。

Others include Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

这些传说人物还包括圣诞老人以及复活节兔子。

How does santa claus get to all of those houses?

圣诞老人怎么去得那么多房子？

" Old people die, get over it" ?

老人去世 也没什么大不的？