It smelt of dust and old papers, and the people who worked there all seemed old and dusty, too.

这里充斥着灰尘和废纸气味，就连里面工作人似乎也都而灰头灰脑。

Spend some time in a quiet park relaxing on an old bench.

花些时间，一座宁静公园里长椅上放松一下。

So...I heard you found a really cool journal from back in the day.

我听说你发现了一本年代超酷日记。

Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen.

你休用画笔上面乱抹线条！

As they stand they are like the figures in an old tapestry; they do not separate themselves from the background, and at a distance seem to lose their pattern, so that you have little but a pleasing piece of colour.

像我现这样写，这两个人好象是一幅挂毯上两个人形，同背景很难分辨出来；如果从远处看，那就连轮廓也辨别不出，只剩下一团花花绿绿颜色了。

Someone had added a very old Buick car radio under the hotel truck's dashboard, and now, tinny and choked with static, the distinctive sound of John Fogerty's Creedence Clearwater Revival band came out of the speaker.

有人饭店载货车仪表板底下加装了非常别汽车收音机，此时，从扬声筒里传出来约翰·佛格提清水合唱团独特歌声，声音尖细，并且由于静电影响不大顺畅。

In the passenger seat was a much older man, a heavyset man with a memorable face- a face that overflowed, the cheeks resting against his shoulders, with creases running through the russet skin like an old leather jacket.

坐乘客座上是一个更老一些男人，体格健壮，有一张令人难忘脸——一张太过宽大脸，脸颊紧贴着他肩膀，黄褐色皮肤上千沟万壑，像一件皮夹。

The only way Karswell might find out is by asking the people at the British Museum Library for the name of anyone who studies all their old books about alchemy.

卡斯韦尔知道邓宁名字唯一办法就是问大英博物馆图书馆人究他们那些炼金术方面书籍。

The underground spaces seem to attract every eccentric passion. A small and ancient man with a Bible , an American flag and a megaphone haunts the subways of Manhattan.

地下空间似乎能够吸引每一种怪异激情。一个身材矮小、穿着人总会拿本圣经、带着一面美国国旗和一个扩音器出入于曼哈顿地铁。

At half past seven Harry, Ron and Hermione left the Gryffindor common room, Harry clutching a certain piece of aged parchment in his hand.

七点半，哈利、罗恩和赫敏离开了格兰芬多公共休息室，哈利手里握着一片羊皮纸。

Soon we stopped in front of a very old house, with a very clean front doorstep, and fresh white curtains at the windows.

很快，我们一幢十分房子前停了下来。门前台阶十分干净，窗户挂着洁白窗帘。

She spent all morning going in and out of dark, silent rooms, which were full of heavy furniture and old pictures.

她整个上午都出入那些昏暗寂静房间，房间里满是笨重家具和油画。

If old quotes and food expressions are still not working for you, there are other ways to state this idea.

如果名言和用食物表达方式都不适合你话，还可以用其他方法来表达这个想法。

It basically chops it up, layers in new sound, tweaks the visuals, it turns it black and white, gives it sort of an antique look as if it were spinning on an old film reel.

它基本上将原作剪辑重组， 加入新音效，调整视觉效果， 将其转为黑白画面，赋予一种观感， 仿佛是老电影胶片上旋转播放。

A few strange, antique portraits of the men and women of other days decorated the stained walls; a cupboard with glass doors contained some books and an ancient set of china.

几幅男女画像点缀着脏兮兮墙壁，一个玻璃门后藏着一些书和一套老瓷器。

Maybe it's a little hokey or quaint or whatever, but my son gets to grow up in a house with two loving parents that's safe and encouraging and loving.

或许这听起来有点老套或，但我儿子能充满爱、安全且鼓励成长家庭中长大， 拥有两位慈爱父母。

I made all the sail I could, and in half an hour she spied me, then hung out her ancient, and discharged a gun.

我尽可能地扬起了帆，半小时后她发现了我，然后挂出了旗帜，并鸣放了一炮。

The book collection has grown substantially since you last seen my apartment and specifically it's grown in rare and old books.

自从你上次看到我公寓以来，我藏书量有了大幅增长，尤其是稀有和书籍。

Obviously, there's reasons we don't want to read it anymore with all the these and thous and so on.

显然，我们有理由不再想阅读它，因为里面充斥着“这些”、“那些”以及“汝”、“汝等”之类词汇。

Very dramatic using maybe archaic words.

使用或许略显词汇，营造出极为戏剧化效果。