old gentleman

基本解釋

It isn’t handed to you by a kindly old gentleman.
它不會(huì)由一個(gè)年老和善的紳士交到你手上。
In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent.
這位老紳士有姪兒、姪媳及其子女作伴，日子過得倒也舒心。
EXAMPLE: The old gentleman did not remember me at first, but I jogged his memory by mentioning that I had brought a rare and expensive gift to his birthday party last year.
這位老先生一開始不記得我，但我提到，去年曾帶了一件珍貴禮物蓡加他的生日聚會(huì)，讓他猛然想起了我。

Soon afterwards, the sometimes erratic old gentleman was banned from politics for five years and his Welfare party was shut down.
ECONOMIST: Turkey
Yet Peter, as this courtly old-school gentleman didn't mind being called, was inherently personal in his communications.
FORBES: Middleman for Drucker
But while this whole story certainly sounds plausible, the unidentifiable device in the gentleman's hand could be anything from an old HP iPaq to a five-dollar tip calculator, so please do your duty as responsible readers and begin dropping your wild theories and baseless debunks into the comments below...
ENGADGET: Is this the iPhone in the wild?