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1 prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity
2 old (of people)
3 venerable (person)
4 experienced
5 of long standing
6 always
7 all the time
8 of the past
9 very
10 outdated
11 (of meat etc) tough

老公

lǎo gōng

1 (coll.) husband

老婆

lǎo pó

1 (coll.) wife

Idioms (20)

一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥

yī lì lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō zhōu

1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom)
2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

一颗老鼠屎坏了一锅汤

yī kē lǎo shǔ shǐ huài le yī guō tāng

1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom)
2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

上有老下有小

shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo

1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
3 sandwich generation

不听老人言，吃亏在眼前

bù tīng lǎo rén yán , chī kuī zài yǎn qián

1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril

可歌可泣

kě gē kě qì

1 lit. you can sing or you can cry (idiom); fig. deeply moving
2 happy and sad
3 inspiring and tragic

Sample Sentences

我很喜欢经典老歌。

wǒ hěn xǐhuan jīngdiǎn lǎogē 。

I like classic old songs.

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我可不这样想。如果真的是好作品就一定会流传下去的。你看那些经典的欧美老歌，都已经过了三四十年了，不是还有那么多人喜欢嘛。

wǒ kě bù zhèyàng xiǎng 。rúguǒ zhēnde shìhǎo zuòpǐn jiù yī dìng huì liúchuán xiàqù de 。nǐ kàn nàxiē jīngdiǎn de Ōuměi lǎo gē ，dōu yǐjīng guòle sānbǎi sìshí nián le ，bù shì hái yǒu nàme duō rén rén xǐhuan ma 。

I really don't see things that way. If it's a good piece of work, it will definitely be passed down. Look at those classic old European and North American songs-- they've been around for thirty or forty years, and people still love them.

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老歌

lǎo gē

Old song.

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一首老歌，就是一首经典的歌曲。

yī shǒu lǎo gē ，jiùshì yī shǒu jīngdiǎn de gēqǔ 。

An old song is an old classic song.

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