obsolete

1 He called the book “Blue Highways” because that was the color, on the old maps, of the roads he followed, the secondaries made obsolete by the construction of the interstate.

2 Overexposure seems like an obsolete concept in 2016, but it used to come fast and easy in the MTV era, back when pop still resembled a monoculture.

3 In the past few years Arcangel has led a fresh wave of artists tapping new and recently obsolete technology.

4 Over the years conservative pundits and think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation have posited that the proliferation of cable content has made PBS’ role and purpose obsolete.

5 We dug up obsolete convention weapons and insults to hurl back and forth.

6 The Mark of the Vampire sits, its usefulness obsolete, on its shelf.

7 But then, at the edge of the field, the German machine guns begin to fire, and the British horses crash into the forest, suddenly riderless and instantly obsolete.

8 All hail the VCR: the more or less obsolete technology that keeps on giving.

9 “I was 29, feeling almost obsolete, but Ernest was 21 and white hot with life,” she confides.

10 Others find the size chart antiquated and obsolete.

11 But when the film screened recently, the mood in the room was subdued, the film’s contemptuous, amoral portrait of Washington feeling both redundant and strangely obsolete.

12 “It represents labor and this workhorse of our monetary system that’s also totally obsolete.”

13 Each work gathers up the synonyms of some common word that has spawned a vast vernacular – obscene, money, obsolete, no – and runs them into the ground, like speech escalating into a rant.

14 A prospect that Tyrell knows as well as we do, will steer us inexorably to a condition in which humans are an obstacle, and weak, emotional and obsolete ones at that.

15 He argues that modern war is becoming obsolete, leaving primitive, undisciplined warfare as the major kind of war remaining in the world today.

16 They may be looking for ghosts, but what they find in the premiere is an alternative energy source that could make oil, coal, nuclear fuel and the other polluting power sources obsolete.

17 We don’t need to breed more wage slaves to prop up an obsolete system.

18 To most young people, the wristwatch is an obsolete artifact.”

19 Eastern State Penitentiary, too massive and obsolete to be repurposed after it closed, has found new life helping people, once again, think about the purpose of imprisonment.

20 They have told me that too few people working unreasonable hours with obsolete equipment has placed the nation’s air travelers in unwarranted danger.

1 废词

obsoletism

2 旧式

o/s old ancient medieval antique primitive outdated old-fashioned dated prehistoric out-of-date outmoded dowdy antediluvian fusty superannuated rinky-dink horse-and-buggy demoded demode Model T out of date

3 抛弃

dereliction quit abandon dump scrap junk discard forsake divest jettison unlearn leave lose desert ditch fling renounce slough renege throw over chuck out throw overboard cast aside walk out on run out on

4 老化的

ageing

5 淘汰的

obsolescent knockout

6 陈旧的

hack outdated stale rusty archaic antiquated threadbare hoary moth-eaten worm-eaten shopworn time worn

7 退化

degenerate retrograde regressive vestigial obsolescent retrogressive regression degradation deterioration atrophy devolution degeneracy retrogression catagenesis decay degrade deteriorate abort regress retrogress degeneration degenerative downgrade fall-off dwindle moulder bastardize go downhill degraded cataplasia obsolescence involution retrogradation retroversion vestigium

8 退化的

retrograde regressive vestigial obsolescent retrogressive degenerative degenerate degraded

9 作废

invalidly annulment defeasance void avoidance abolition recall blank repeal supersede vacate disannul

10 不明显

inapparent indefiniteness

11 陈旧

hack outdated stale rusty archaic antiquated threadbare hoary moth-eaten worm-eaten shopworn time worn

12 废弃

reversal jettison disuse dereliction desuetude reverse scrap rubbish derelict outmoded moulder on the shelf waste disused desert junk on the scrapheap abandoned inactive archaic deserted outworn obsolescence cast-off nullification obsoletism supersede relinquish annihilate nullify annul superannuate antiquate deep-six disannul off the map

13 不再使用的

inactive defunct disused

14 作废的

void

15 淘汰

refer eliminate weed obsolescent elimination obsolescence weed out knockout sift out

16 废颓

obsolescence

17 不用的

unused abandoned unemployed unoccupied

18 陈腐

hoked-up old hack conventional fossil pedestrian canned beaten commonplace stale antiquated musty banal trite moldy well-worn worn-out stereotyped threadbare hoary hackneyed hackney folky copybook hoar hokey fusty outworn shopworn bewhiskered warmed-over timeworn bromidic platitude staleness obsoletism

19 已废的

dead outworn

20 变得过时

superannuate

21 过时

back outdated 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 superannuate go out of fashion vieux jeu played out out of date provincial stale defunct antiquated bygone musty mouldy dowdy moth-eaten die out behind the times cold dead clunky archaic obsolescent dowdiness old hat vintage medieval backward moldy unfashionable passe rinky-dink behindhand antiquate dead as a dodo out of vogue out of mode SAD fossil antique cheesy rusty geriatric feudal corny mossy creaky fusty horse-and-buggy old-style outwear quaint old-school ageing frumpy cornball be as dead as a dodo be as dead as the dodo be dead as a dodo be dead as the dodo be out of the ark come out of the ark be in a time warp live in a time warp yesterday sad daggy middle-aged out of the ark went out with the ark go out go out of démodé past its sell by date

22 不再使用

inactive defunct disused expire discard

23 已不用的

disuse

24 不明显的

inapparent

25 过期的

out-of-date

26 已废弃的

disuse life-expired

27 废弃的

dead waste derelict disused outmoded on the shelf on the scrapheap abandoned inactive archaic deserted outworn

28 已废弃的东西

corpse

29 不用

unused abandoned unemployed unoccupied disuse desuetude hold

30 已过时

extinct have had day

31 旧式的

old ancient medieval antique primitive outdated old-fashioned dated prehistoric out-of-date outmoded dowdy antediluvian fusty superannuated rinky-dink horse-and-buggy demoded demode Model T out of date

32 陈腐的

hoked-up old hack conventional fossil pedestrian canned beaten commonplace stale antiquated musty banal trite moldy well-worn worn-out stereotyped threadbare hoary hackneyed hackney folky copybook hoar hokey fusty outworn shopworn bewhiskered warmed-over timeworn bromidic

33 老化

ageing age perish

34 过时的

back outdated old-fashioned dated out-of-date belated anachronistic outmoded threadbare antediluvian played-out outworn superannuated unhip demoded passé demode unmodish passée vieux jeu played out out of date provincial stale defunct antiquated bygone musty mouldy dowdy moth-eaten behind the times fusty dead elderly medieval antique prehistoric archaic geriatric rinky-dink untrendy horse-and-buggy life-expired dead letter played out informal cold clunky obsolescent old hat vintage backward moldy unfashionable passe behindhand dead as a dodo out of vogue SAD fossil cheesy rusty feudal corny mossy creaky old-style superannuate quaint old-school ageing frumpy cornball out be out of the ark come out of the ark be in a time warp live in a time warp sad daggy middle-aged démodé past its sell by date

35 已过时的

extinct