old flame

英 [ˌəʊld ˈfleɪm]

美 [ˌoʊld ˈfleɪm]

n.  旧情人

牛津词典

noun

• 旧情人
  a former lover
  1. She met an old flame at the party.
     她在聚会上遇到了旧情郎。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 旧情人;旧欢
  Anold flameis someone with whom you once had a romantic relationship.
  1. Sue was seen dating an old flame...
     有人看见休跟旧情人约会。
  2. Julia Samuel was one of Prince Andrew's old flames.
     朱莉娅·塞缪尔是安德鲁王子的旧欢之一。

双语例句

• She's my old flame.
  她是我过去的情人。
• Methods 308 8-11-year old children were selected for examination of IQ by WISC-CR scale and for determination of the contents of calcium, zinc, iron and lead in hair by flame atomic spectrophotometry.
  方法选择308名8～11岁儿童用WISC-CR智力量表测定智商，用火焰原子吸收法测定头发中钙、锌、铁、铅含量。
• Sometimes it arrives in the form of an old flame, flickering back to life.
  有时它以旧火焰的形式出现，重回到生活中闪耀。
• Johnny's company was a girl named Sharon Moore, a New York City Greenwich Village girl in Hollywood to try for a small part in a movie being produced by do old flame who had made the big time.
  约翰昵的客人是个名叫莎蓉-慕尔的女郎，家住纽约市格林威治村，到好莱坞是要在一个多年的情人创作的一部电影里试演一个配角，她的情人已经一举成名了。
• She met an old flame at the party.
  她在聚会上遇到了旧情郎。
• He ran into an old flame of his at the supermarket.
  他在超级市场碰见了他的一个老相好。
• There's a chance an old flame might be there.
  也许那儿可能有一点过去的热情吧。
• Penniman ever knew her husband was sending flowers to his old flame?
  你以为彭尼曼太太是否知道丈夫给老相好送花？
• He is an old flame of Sarah's, from her days as a single girl about town.
  他是萨拉的旧情人，是她作为单身时髦女郎时的旧爱。
• She's not old enough to sustain a flame.
  她的年纪还不足以喷火。