| 释义 |
‖ vecchio|ˈvɛkɪəʊ|
[It.]
An old man.
c1570Bugbears i. ii. 61 Yet it dothe not content our pinchefiste, the old vecchio. Ibid. 79 The three thousand Crownes that our vecchio dothe require. 1938E. Hemingway Fifth Column 273 ‘Three marsalas,’ said the young gentleman to the girl behind the pastry counter. ‘Two, you mean?’ she asked. ‘No,’ he said, ‘One for a vecchio.’ 1944G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Dec. in To a Young Actress (1960) 180, I am a vecchio, nearly eightyeight and a half. |