an age-old custom/problem
古老的风俗；由来已久的问题
1.年代久远的
1.very old
1.Celadon ceramics is an age-old art. Through a history of thousands of years, it has taken on a soft, serene and elegant quality.
青瓷是一门古老的艺术形式，在中国几千年的发展历程中，逐渐形成了温润、沉静、典雅的审美特征。
2.The report reflects age-old Western biases and a fundamental inability to understand Islam on its own terms.
该报告反映出了西方根深蒂固的偏见，也反映出了西方用自己的条例与术语去理解伊斯兰的一种原则性无能。
3.With just a couple of simple steps and a little bit of practice, you can rediscover that age old instinct.
通过两个简单的步骤和一些练习，你就可以重新找回那远古时代的直觉。
4.And I fought and strove and perished countless times upon the star, as if through a glass and darkly the age old strife I see.
无数次我战斗，反抗，死亡。星光下，如同透过一面镜子，我隐约看到那场古老的战争。
5.Bree: It's the age-old question, how much do we want to know about our neighbors?
又回到老问题上了，我们有多想了解我们的邻居？
6.'It's the age-old problem that the more you drill down in to a simple subject, the more you realise that it's really not simple at all. '
这是个老生常谈的问题了，你越深究于一件简单的事物你就会越来越意识到它其实一点也不简单。
7.We have no doubt that the abundant tourism resources are unique, primitive and age-old, but its ecology is rather fragile.
其旅游资源具有独特性、原始性、古老性和丰富性，但其生态脆弱性也是不容质疑的。
8.She said the internet is just a new means to the age-old dance of attraction and love.
她说以前人们通过跳舞来展现魅力，表达爱意，而网络只不过是一种新的“调情”媒介。
9.Facing the dark blue lake, like an aged man, the age-old snow-clad trees are recalling ups and downs of their past years.
披着霜雪的班驳古树，如龙钟的老者，面对湛蓝深邃的湖水，恍若回忆岁月的沧桑；
10.But this is Japan, whose age-old belief in nature is at least evenly matched by an unyielding faith in technology.
对自然有着由来已久的信仰，同时也对科技有着不屈的信念，这两者至少是不相上下的。这就是日本。