| 词汇 | obsolete |
| 释义 | obsolete adjective uk /ˌɒb.səlˈiːt/ us /ˌɑːb.səlˈiːt/ C1 not in use any more, having been replaced by something newer and better or more fashionable: 废弃的;过时的;淘汰的;老化的 Gas lamps became obsolete when electric lighting was invented.电灯发明以后煤气灯就被淘汰了。 Old or old-fashioned age-old ageing ancient antediluvian anti-progressive fossilization fossilize fossilized frumpy fustily outdate outdated outdatedly outmoded outworn unmodernized unmodish unprogressive unreconstructed unsmart obsolete | American Dictionaryobsolete adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˌɑb·səˈlit/ no longer used or needed, usually because something newer and better has replaced it: Typewriters have been rendered obsolete by computers. obsolete | Business Englishobsolete adjective uk /ˈɒbsəliːt/us not in general use any more, having been replaced by something newer and better or more fashionable: Payment by cheque will soon be obsolete. become/be rendered obsoleteTraditional retailing is in danger of being rendered obsolete by the internet. We need to replace some obsolete equipment. Examples of obsoleteobsolete The paradigm of staple food self-sufficiency that has been the cornerstone of agricultural policy in most developing countries becomes increasingly obsolete with economic growth. Equally, it refers to the availability of appropriate devices, as rapid technological change soon makes systems obsolete and manufacturers discontinue production. With the sovietisation of their neighbours, the justification for annexations as liberation from imperialist oppression became obsolete. But the very nature of electroacoustic composition and the various computational processes, their range and their refinement, usually render traditional analytic methods obsolete and unusable. One effect of the crises of the 1970s was to render obsolete many of the assumptions that had been unchallengeable only a few years earlier. Training was costly, time-consuming and inherently risky, since a new skill could quickly become obsolete or fail to attract sufficient work to merit the investment. While he concedes 'undoubted musical qualities', he finds that the libretto renders the opera obsolete, no longer acceptable. He consolidated and clarified a host of statutes, abolished obsolete offences, made significant procedural changes, and introduced a professional police force. Is banding of the pulmonary trunk obsolete for infants with tricuspid atresia and double inlet ventricle with a discordant ventriculoartenal connection? There is little reason to fear, then, that globalization will destroy all attempts at regulating the operations of capitalist economies, or render comparative politics obsolete. Similarly, one comparative disadvantage of local shoe production is the use of manual methods and obsolete technologies. Due to the commitment to shared memory architectures, explicit decomposition of arrays is obsolete. More readings of this kind need to be done before the method is discarded as obsolete. This makes the differentiation between data and programs in self-referential processes obsolete. With refinement of the analysis, it becomes possible to reconstruct the interactive system periodically as technology changes and the reconstructions themselves become obsolete. 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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