- 新旧
- しんきゅう
new & old
incoming & outgoing* * *しんきゅう【新旧】¶ → 新旧の¶ → 新旧交替を図る* * *しんきゅう【新旧】old and new.●新旧入り混じった 《a style》 blending the old and the new
・新旧大臣 the incoming and outgoing Ministers.
●新旧の old and new; 〔新任と退任〕 incoming and outgoing
・新旧の俳優 actors of the old and the new schools
・新旧の思想の衝突 a collision between old and new ideas.
新旧交代 a transition between the old and the new.●今は新旧交替の過度期だ. We are now in a period of transition, the old giving way to the new.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.