the elder

常见例句

On this score, the elder Miliband is a step ahead of his brother.
在这一点上，年长的米利班德比他的兄弟领先一步。
Once the elder of the two turned round, and smiled at me with an evil smile.
有一回，年长的那个宦官回过头来，冲我不怀好意地笑了笑。
Experts believe the male was Cao, the elder woman his empress who died in AD 230 and was buried at Cao's tomb with her close companion, the younger woman.
专家们确信这名男性就是曹操，年长女性是他的王后，死于公元230年；同她的贴身侍女（那名年轻女子）一起被安葬在曹操墓中。

More than two thousand years ago, the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder observed its harmful effects.
In Lycidas, Milton looks back at the Elder Brother's theodicy, and it's almost as if he's attempting to test its validity.
在这首诗中，弥尔顿回顾了《科玛斯》中哥哥的斯奥迪斯，似乎是在验证斯奥迪斯正确与否。
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There seems to be something like a gentle parody maybe even a mocking tone that fills the lines of the Elder Brother's ecstatic speech.
似乎有些东西如文雅诙谐的改编作品甚至是嘲弄的语气,体现在大哥入神的讲话中。
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The elder Byrne said in an interview last month that he regrets not supporting the campaign.
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It didn't hurt that the elder Chopra, 53, often accompanied Mallika to meetings with the VCs.
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Speaking to reporters at the family's home in Multan, the elder Gilani appeared shaken but composed.
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