old codger

1. I may be an old codger, but I've sharp ears.
   别看我门神老了不捉鬼，我耳朵可灵着哩。
2. I looked at this marvellous old codger laughing his head off.
   我看着这个绝妙的怪家伙狂笑不已。
3. That dried-up, skinny old codger could give an informal lecture that took you from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau all the way down to Hainan Island, or from the Taihang Range to Huangguoshu Falls.
   那干瘦老头居然能从青藏高原扯到海南岛，从太行山扯到黄果树瀑布。
4. The old codger may need a cane to walk, but not for his mind, which is still sharp as a razor blade.
   这个古怪的老头子走路可能离不开拐棍，可动脑筋时却不同了，他的头脑仍然象刀片一样锋利。
5. He's a funny old codger.
   他这个人可真怪。
6. 3: Gee, I sure wish that old guy who lives next door would buy himself a hearing aid& he's a nice old codger but he's deaf as a post and I have to yell every time I talk to him.
   嗨，我真希望隔壁那老头儿能给自己买个助听器。他是个和气的老家伙，只是耳朵聋得不行；我每回跟他说话都得大喊。
7. I could just imagine the old codger reading himself to sleep with those after his usual dinner of mutton.
   我可以想象得出，这个怪老头在吃完他常吃的羊肉晚餐后，捧着这些书，直看到进入梦乡。

noun

1. used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man

   Synonym:    codger