Once upon a time, in a place far away, lived an old man and an old lady.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

A long time ago, an old man and an old woman were living in some place.

Old age crept up on him before he realized it.

Those days are past and gone.

The old woman sent a servant for the trunk.

the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily

We used to have a maid who lived in, but our present one lives out.

I unexpectedly ran into a love from a long time ago.

A large number of people visit the historic site.

A Large number of people visit the historic site.

she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing

The old custom is still kept up in that district.

The good old days are gone never to return.

the good old days

The frat-house was ill-used rather than old.

an old family long seated in Kent

It was such a long time ago and [that] I only have a vague memory of it.

belonging to or lasting from times long ago

The good old days have gone never to return.

The good old days have gone, never to return.

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess.

Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful princess.

all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

When I visited my hometown after a long absence, I found it quite different from what it had been in my memory.

so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

men of other days

ramble on about the old days

The big old tree must have witnessed many ups and downs in our (people's) history over the centuries.

a play performed many years after it originally debuted

in ancient Japan, a boy who wore a crown after having gone through a ceremony signifying his manhood

in the past, a person who was employed to deliver an urgent message to a distant place