old year

基本解釋

The old year could not have ended soon enough for the millions of Americans who spent 2010 struggling to find jobs or avoid foreclosure notices.
對在2010年在努力尋找工作或避免止贖通知的數(shù)百萬計的美國人來說，舊的一年很快就過去了。
In a word, just before the Spring Festival comes, every household will give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new.
總之，就在春節(jié)到來之前，為了告別舊年迎接新年，家家戶戶都會徹底打掃一下房屋。
But in the cold morning hour, crouching in the corner of the wall, the poor little girl was found：her cheeks glowing, her lips smiling, frozen to death on the last night of the old Year.
直到寒冷的早晨，人們發(fā)現(xiàn)一個可憐的小姑娘蜷縮在墻角里，她雙頰通紅，嘴唇上帶著微笑，她已經(jīng)在舊年的除夕凍死了。

The idea of admitting mistakes and finishing the business of the old year is found in many cultures.
There is no machine yet that can recognize faces or understand sentences at the level of a two-year-old human.
至今還沒有任何機器,能夠做到面孔識別,或是理解兩歲兒童能夠輕易理解的句子
耶魯公開課 - 心理學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
which you'll think, only a ten or eleven year old, but when there is thirteen of them, it's a lot.
你會想，不就是十歲、十一歲的小孩嘛，但有十三個還是很多的。
大城市是否危險？ - SpeakingMax英語口語達人

This is particularly true of the purification-by-fire marking the end of the old year.
ECONOMIST: Iran