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

• 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。
• Sometimes it arrives in a form of an old flame, flickering back to life, or a new friend who could end up being so much more, or a young child who wakens feelings we didn't know we had.
  有时它们以闪回的火花形式出现；有时是一个意义深远的新朋友；有时是一个触发我们不曾有过的感觉的婴儿。
• 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。
• 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。
• Sue was seen dating an old flame
  有人看见休跟旧情人约会。
• I was in a pub with my wife the other evening when I met an old flame and the three of us got on remarkably well together.
  前不久的一个晚上我和妻子在酒店时，我遇见了旧情人，我们3人在一起相处得极好。
• She met an old flame at the party.
  她在聚会上遇到了旧情郎。
• The one you were dinning with last night must be your old flame.
  昨天晚上和你一起吃饭的那个人肯定是你过去的情人。
• 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 my old flame.
  她是我过去的情人。