old as the hills, (as) Very old indeed. The term refers, presumably, to geological time, when mountains were first formed, but one writer suggests a relation to a biblical passage: “Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills” (Job 15:7). The expressi...
【典型例句】With scientific sanitation and hygiene, one can expect to become as old as Methuselah.随着科学卫生的 发展,人们可望寿比彭祖。 He is as old as Methuselah, as rich as a Jew, and as wise as Solomon'他寿比彭祖,富可敌国,且智慧过人。 He is as old as Methuselah. I have no use...
There are Methuselahs(年岁极高的人)among us.These aged wonders of the natural world do not stalk the earth but glide through Arctic waters.Scientists surveying Greenland sharks,previously thought to live up to 200 years,found that they have far(1)___lifespans.One specimen was calculated...
根据后文 “One specimen was calculated to be___2___ 400 years old,born more than a century before the U.S. was founded.” (其中一个样本据测算有将近400多岁了,在美国成立前一个世纪就出生了),可知格陵兰鲨鱼的寿命比之前认为的更长。故选B项。 (2)题详解: 考查副词词义辨析。句意:其中一个...
原文With scientific sanitation and hygiene, one can expect to becomeas old as Methuselah. 译文随着科学卫生的发展,人们可望寿比彭祖。 讲解 该表达出自《圣经·创世纪》第5章,耶和华降洪水毁灭罪恶世界之前,犹太族长玛士撒拉“活了九百六十九岁”;他的孙子就是筑方舟保存了地球各类动物的诺亚(Noah)。后来玛士...
age-old,ancient,antediluvian,antiquated,antique,archaic,hoary,old,olden,old-time,timeworn. Idioms:old as Methuselah,old as the hills. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing...
The oldest aquarium fish in the world is named Methuselah. It lives at the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences. This is a museum in San Francisco. The fish was brought to the aquarium in 1938 from Australia. Back then, Mesthuselah was just a few years old. Methuselah...
【题目】T here are Methuselahs(年岁极高的人)among us. T hese aged wonders of the natural world do not stalk the earth but glide throughArctic waters. Scientists surveying Greenlandsharks , previously thought to live up to 200 years , found that they have far【小题1】lifespans. One ...
32After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth. PREVIOUSGenesis 4NEXTGenesis 6 Genesis 5 Commentary Chapter 5 Adam and Seth.(1-5)The patriarchs from Seth to Enoch.(6-20)Enoch.(21-24)Methuselah to Noah.(25-32) ...
Far from being 13.8 billion years old, as estimated by the European Planck space telescope's detailed measurements of cosmic radiation in 2013, the universe may be as young as 11.4 billion years. If that is, indeed, the case, then Methuselah is one again older than the universe. The plot...