as old as adam

The joke you told us is as old as Adam, but I still think it's funny.

你给我们讲的那个笑话简直老掉了牙, 不过我认为还是很有趣的.

Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.

毫无疑问，这种单调与无聊就像亚当一样古老；正是这种古老的单调和无聊，把人类生活中参差百态的幸福消磨殆尽了。

His news is as old as Adam.

他的新闻已经老掉牙了.

Well, as I've often said, though our old minister is so much at one with the rank and file, there's still a good tenth of our people who wouldn't know him from adam.

我常说，别看我们老部长那么联系群众，部里也有那么十分之一的人不认识他吧；

But the binary is a belief system at least as old as Adam and Eve, and most people don't even realize it's there.

但是性别二元论是一套起码早在亚当夏娃时代就已成形的信仰体系，大部分人甚至都没有意识到这一思维定势的存在。