disuse

1 This spring it broke ground on an extension next to the existing building on a plot of land with disused oil tanks that once held fuel to power London.

2 Here they hesitated before a disused logging trail that led westward from the side of the road, its entrance almost concealed by overhanging branches.

3 This mile-and-a-half-long park on an elevated, disused railway line is fun and free but can be packed with tourists.

4 Flashy, even brilliant buildings rarely if ever rejuvenate neighborhoods or guarantee crowds and cash just by virtue of their design, any more than restoring disused rail tracks guarantees the High Line.

5 Nestled in a pit that had been used to supply water for malting and brewing until around 270 AD, archaeologists believe that the eggs had been left there as gifts to the gods once the pit had fallen into disuse, Biddulph said.

6 The room was rank with fungus and disuse.

7 This house is older than the water-pipes. There must be a disused well somewhere.

8 Matta-Clark's work is essentially about a way of inhabiting New York, the reconception of disused spaces in a desperate city as places to live, eat and create.

9 Might the decades of disuse preserve the freshness of that time?

10 The former "Baywatch" star was helping Morris promote a campaign to restore a disused entertainment complex in Morecambe, the northern England seaside resort he represents in Parliament.

11 He takes snaps of disused bridges, forsaken hamlets and station platforms lost to encroaching greenery.

12 A deconsecrated and disused church on the edge of Manchester city centre has been transformed into a new concert and rehearsal venue for one of Britain's oldest symphony orchestras.

13 This year, 18 disused churches are inviting the public to sleep on camp beds squeezed between pews or beneath stained-glass windows.

14 At the end of the passage at the top of the house . . . there was an old disused bathroom.

15 Some would slowly lose their power to hurt me and would fall into disuse.

16 Working with the disused rubber boats is not strange, he says.

17 First opened in 1910, the train station received rail passengers until it was shuddered in the 1950s and has sat disused ever since, becoming a favored haunt of urban explorers.

18 This retrospective in Munich spans from his early ‘‘Subway Drawings,’’ in white chalk on disused billboards, to documents of his work as an activist.

19 A few of these poems may not appeal to everyone — the cataloguing of disused items in “Estate Sale” grows somewhat tedious — and many of them will be most meaningful to those over 60.

20 The spoon has been rusty from disuse.

汤匙因弃置不用而生锈了。

1 搁置

table shelve rest dismiss

2 不用

left-off life-expired desuetude dispense off spare unemployed without dead waste inactive idle unused abandoned obsolete unoccupied hold needn't reject disused dispensation

3 停用

outage withdraw can

4 废止

rescissory avoidance abolition discontinuation annulment rescission discontinuance cassation desuetude avoid abolish abrogate adeem disannul repeal defeasance un- cancel dissolve deprivation lapse annihilate dead dis- suppress extinguish rescind quash

5 不使用

nonuse

6 已废止的

defunct

7 已废弃的

obsolete

8 废弃

antiquated obsolescence reversal jettison dereliction desuetude reverse scrap rubbish obsolete old inactive rusty desolate cancellation cassation cancel explode smite slough antiquate be away go out of use outdated outmoded creaky disaffirm junk outwear fall into oblivion fall into disuse off the map derelict moulder on the shelf waste disused desert on the scrapheap abandoned archaic deserted outworn castoff rejection revoke superannuation abolition renunciation nullification obsolescent supersession disaffirmance supersedure obsoletism scrub override supersede nullify overrule disannul cast-off relinquish annihilate annul superannuate deep-six

9 已不用的

obsolete