old scores

常见例句

After years of family fighting, the uncles agreed to wipe out old scores so their children could marry.
经过多年家族争斗之后，长辈们同意消除宿怨，以便孩子们可以通婚。
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MANY politicians use their memoirs to settle old scores. Newspapers scour them for juicy titbits of who said what to whom, and which leaders were perpetually drunk or unreliable.
很多政客在其回忆录中都会爆料伺机报复，所以媒体会搜索一些相关的花边新闻，比如谁对谁说什么了，哪个领导人沉溺于酒精，哪个做人又不牢靠。
We do not want to bring up old scores.
乌克兰不想翻过去的旧账，因为过去已无法改变。

Normally, Mr Lafontaine, when he is not settling old scores, is worth listening to.
ECONOMIST: Oskar Lafontaine
Mr Khan's rivals claim that none of them was al-Qaeda and that Mr Khan was settling old scores.
ECONOMIST: Searching for stability The
Deliciously, Taylor also settled a number of old scores in the book--including, it seems, several with his McLean in-laws.
FORBES: Freedom Of The Press Means Freedom To Fail