这是现存最古老的希伯来语手稿。

This is the oldest Hebrew manuscript in existence.

《牛津词典》

这宫殿是城里最古老的建筑。

The palace is the oldest building in the city.

《牛津词典》

现存最古老的文件追溯到1492年。

The oldest extant document is dated 1492.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Every regime is an answer consciously or not to the oldest political question of all ? who governs? Who should govern?

每一个政体都是答案，无论是否有此自觉,每一个都是最古老政治问题的答案,由谁统治？谁该被统治？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We don't, of course, have any original copies of these materials as they came off the pen of whoever it was who was writing them, and in fact before the middle of the twentieth century, our oldest manuscripts and fragments of manuscripts of the Bible dated to the year 900.

我们当然没有任何最早时期那些笔者的,手稿，而且事实上,在20世纪中期之前我们有的最古老的手稿,和手稿碎片都是公元900年时候的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The concept of the regime is perhaps the oldest and most fundamental of political ideas.

政体的概念或许是,最古老与最基础的政治概念。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选