A time-honoured tradition, practice, or method is respected because it has been done or used in the same way for many years.(传统、习俗、方法)古老而又受尊重的,历史悠久的
humorousThe developers dealt with the problem in the time-honoured fashion/way, burying the industrial waste in landfill sites.开发商处理这个问题用的是老法子——把工业垃圾填埋起来。