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Meaning of 旧大陆

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jiù (Trad.: 舊大陸)
the Old World; Eurasia as opposed to the New World 新大陆 or the Americas
Example Sentences
1
Was this the New World, the Old World, or the Next World?
2
These fiery foods made their debut in the Old World when they were brought back by Columbus and other early explorers.
3
The old continent has dismally failed to create local equivalents of America' s Microsoft and Google.
4
Some people, I' ve got an English friend in China, he said "the continent is sleepwalking into oblivion."
5
In this case the intimacy of the boy and girl might be little more than the continuance in this country of old- world folkways .