the Old News的意思|示意

Some of the children affected were just a few months old, the official news agency said.

官方通讯社声称，其中一些被影响的孩子仅仅几个月大。

"The bad news is we didn't hit oil," ran the old wildcatter's joke.

“坏消息是我们没有钻探到石油，”过去的投机石油家常常这样开玩笑说。

And to make matters worse, he got engaged last week and would love to share the news with his old friends.

更糟糕的是，上周他订婚了，他真想和自己的老朋友分享这个好消息。

Some of the results are old news: wealth, beauty, and pleasure, for example, have little effect on happiness.

研究结果的一部分是老生常谈：比如，财富、美丽、享受等对快乐与否的影响很小。

But it is bad news for small schools in remote areas, who benefited from a cross-subsidy under the old scheme.

不过对地处偏远、一向从旧体制下的交叉补贴中受益的小学校来说却是坏消息。

After all, the main reason why newspapers have lost their must-read status is that most of what's printed in the morning is already old news.

毕竟报纸光环不再的一个重要原因是就是他们早上印刷出来的多数新闻早已成为了旧闻。