superannuate

1 Feckless and irresponsible, Haydon ended up in debtors’ prison four times and, finally, feeling utterly superannuated, committed suicide.

2 Predominantly white, male and English, the cabbies present a superannuated vision of Britain, next to the ethnically diverse immigrants and other strivers who get behind the wheel and slap an Uber decal on their window.

3 Only he's not a hirsute rocker or a podgy, superannuated pub crooner latterly and creepily making a living belting out nursery rhymes for adults.

4 Classic romances, that have proved themselves over time, are less likely to be superannuated by modern technological advances in cinema than films in, say, the sci-fi and fantasy section.

5 As a superannuated karaoke session, the evening's climax was harmless fun – but it was the stupendous documentary that had preceded it that sent the crowd buzzing into the night.

6 My personal preference is for the third ideological alternative, the reform conservatism that locates the source of our problems not in heartless billionaires or crafty foreigners, but in our superannuated, increasingly sclerotic 20th-century welfare-state structures.

7 She has briefly escaped her perfect home and perfect child to spend a few days among the wealthy and idle in the superannuated German resort of Baden-Baden.

8 How lovely to see a superannuated old dude, deemed expendable by society, showing what he has to offer a community in crisis.

9 She walked me through a hallway that seemed to double as a museum of superannuated filing cabinet technology.

10 Breasts come in for their share of drollery as well in a play that sets up two superannuated choruses, one droopily male, the other saggingly female.

11 Their anarchistic romance now feels like ancient history, a sensation compounded by the chi-chunk-chi-chunk of the superannuated slide projector.

12 At first, I’d been a little disappointed to find that these superannuated hauls had been mostly relegated to the dark hours.

13 “The Scarlet Empress” remains in print, though in a superannuated 2001 transfer, from Criterion.

14 And he concludes with a wry elegy for the typewriter, a machine that has become, along with the movie projector and the turntable, a fetish and an emblem of superannuated modernity.

15 Defanged, with glazed eyes and creaking joints, these superannuated party animals try vainly to stir up some enthusiasm during a return visit to Las Vegas, the site of the first “Hangover” movie.

16 With age, their differences have softened into superannuated similarity.

17 Evidence is also accumulating that such nutrient-deprived, superannuated bacteria are not “microbial zombies”.

18 In the wake of the conversion of Toy Story 2, studios are looking at possible 3D makeovers for other superannuated blockbusters, like Titanic, Star Wars and Terminator 2.

19 Typically, promising stars are put through a gruelling training schedule as they pass along the conveyor-belt production of new girl and boybands to replace their quickly superannuated colleagues.

20 None of it does anything for me as it also weirdly assumes some superannuated Protestant work ethic that is clearly no longer applicable.

1 退休

retired retirement superannuation retire retiring recessional sequestered retreat withdraw sequester go to grass out of harness hang up boots

2 落伍

fogyism fossilize outdate break ranks behind the time drop behind drop back

3 陈旧的

shop-soiled old tired fossil antique old-fashioned rusty archaic antiquated well-worn creaky hoary time-worn hoar moth-eaten passé Godwottery

4 老朽的

gaga bedridden

5 使退休

retire sequester

6 陈旧

shop-soiled old tired fossil antique old-fashioned rusty archaic antiquated well-worn creaky hoary time-worn hoar moth-eaten passé Godwottery take the bloom off

7 废弃

waste outmoded cast-off obsolescence nullification desuetude obsoletism scrap obsolete supersede relinquish annihilate nullify annul disuse antiquate deep-six disannul off the map

8 老朽

gaga bedridden buffer

9 淘汰

selective knockout selection selectivity obsolescence out refer cast cull comb-out weed bolt dead KO'd eliminate override

10 使落伍

fossilize

11 解雇

boot discharge chop Chuck kiss-off lay-off can sack shelve send fire separate bounce dismiss retrench kiss off show a the door give a the push

12 领养老金退休

superannuated superannuation

13 领取养老金退休

superannuation

14 变得过时

obsolete

15 过时的

SAD vintage fossil antique outdated obsolete old-fashioned cheesy rusty geriatric feudal defunct antiquated corny musty mossy outmoded creaky mouldy unfashionable dowdy fusty passé horse-and-buggy old-style behind the times

16 过时

back outdated obsolete old-fashioned dated out-of-date belated anachronistic outmoded threadbare antediluvian played-out outworn superannuated unhip demoded passé demode unmodish passée out belatedly dowdily obsolescence oldness fustiness date go out of fashion vieux jeu played out out of date behind the times SAD vintage fossil antique cheesy rusty geriatric feudal defunct antiquated corny musty mossy creaky mouldy unfashionable dowdy fusty behindhand horse-and-buggy old-style outwear