| 单词 | obsolete |
| 释义 | obsolete adjective uk/ˌɒb.səlˈiːt/us/ˌɑːb.səlˈiːt/C1 not in use any more, having beenreplacedby somethingnewerandbetteror morefashionable: 废弃的；过时的；淘汰的；老化的Gaslampsbecameobsolete whenelectriclightingwasinvented.电灯发明以后煤气灯就被淘汰了。 Old or old-fashioned
obsolete| American Dictionaryobsolete adjective[not gradable] us/ˌɑb·səˈlit/nolongerused orneeded, usually because somethingnewerandbetterhasreplacedit: Typewriters have beenrenderedobsolete bycomputers. obsolete| Business Englishobsolete adjective uk/ˈɒbsəliːt/usnot ingeneraluse any more, having beenreplacedby somethingnewerandbetteror morefashionable: Payment bychequewillsoonbe obsolete. become/be rendered obsoleteTraditionalretailingis indangerof beingrenderedobsolete by theinternet. We need toreplacesome obsoleteequipment. Examplesofobsoleteobsolete The paradigm of staple food self-sufficiency that has been the cornerstone of agricultural policy in most developing countries becomes increasinglyobsoletewith economic growth. From theCambridge English Corpus Those who cannot do these things are either ' children ' or fools, useless orobsolete. From theCambridge English Corpus Equally, it refers to the availability of appropriate devices, as rapid technological change soon makes systemsobsoleteand manufacturers discontinue production. From theCambridge English Corpus With the sovietisation of their neighbours, the justification for annexations as liberation from imperialist oppression becameobsolete. From theCambridge English Corpus But the very nature of electroacoustic composition and the various computational processes, their range and their refinement, usually render traditional analytic methodsobsoleteand unusable. From theCambridge English Corpus One effect of the crises of the 1970s was to renderobsoletemany of the assumptions that had been unchallengeable only a few years earlier. From theCambridge English Corpus Training was costly, time-consuming and inherently risky, since a new skill could quickly becomeobsoleteor fail to attract sufficient work to merit the investment. From theCambridge English Corpus While he concedes 'undoubted musical qualities', he finds that the libretto renders the operaobsolete, no longer acceptable. From theCambridge English Corpus He consolidated and clarified a host of statutes, abolishedobsoleteoffences, made significant procedural changes, and introduced a professional police force. From theCambridge English Corpus Is banding of the pulmonary trunkobsoletefor infants with tricuspid atresia and double inlet ventricle with a discordant ventriculoartenal connection? From theCambridge English Corpus There is little reason to fear, then, that globalization will destroy all attempts at regulating the operations of capitalist economies, or render comparative politicsobsolete. From theCambridge English Corpus Similarly, one comparative disadvantage of local shoe production is the use of manual methods andobsoletetechnologies. From theCambridge English Corpus Due to the commitment to shared memory architectures, explicit decomposition of arrays isobsolete. From theCambridge English Corpus More readings of this kind need to be done before the method is discarded asobsolete. From theCambridge English Corpus This makes the differentiation between data and programs in self-referential processesobsolete. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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