the old daysPASTtimes in the past 旧日的时光，以前in the old days In the old days people used to fetch water from the pump. 从前，人们用抽水泵打水。
in the old days• And yet nothing is like it was in the old days.• It was easier in the old days.• That might have been in the old days, but not since the missionaries and business men come in.• He said that in the old days men came here probing for gold trying to find their lode.• It was dug by an escaping prisoner in the old days; my aunt knows all about it.• He said that in the old days, the street trees were elm, maple, and ash.• Kept absolutely meticulous accounts, even in the old days when he was a kid.• That was in the old days when it was different.
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