| 释义 |
outmode, v.|aʊtˈməʊd|
[out- 21; cf. F. démoder.]
trans. To put out of fashion. (Chiefly in pa. pple.) So out-moded ppl. a., no longer in fashion, out-of-date.
1903Academy 17 Jan. 71/1 Jesse Berridge is a poet, not a poetess, to use a somewhat outmoded word. 1906R. Hichens Call of Blood ii. 15 He was not wholly emancipated from la petite femme tradition, which will never be outmoded in Paris. 1906Westm. Gaz. 26 May 2/3 Even the out-moded globe-trotter will find that his trot must be maddeningly slow. 1915T. Burke Nights in Town 392 The poor laddie is sadly outmoded, but he doesn't know it. 1926W. J. Locke Stories Near & Far 133 The joined fragments showed an old photograph of a young man, in out-moded raiment. 1927Daily Express 24 Sept. 8/4 George Ade has been out-moded by Will Rogers, whose jests die as soon as they are born. 1942Amer. Speech XVII. (Reprints & Monogr. No. 4) 4 The people of this region might also have preserved out-moded features of speech. 1952R. Neill Moon in Scorpio xi. 96 It's new Penny—and you're outmoding all Whitehall. 1971Sci. Amer. Oct. 27/1 He believes such a union would outmode the present broadcast networks. 1978E. Healey Lady Unknown vi. 149 Mrs Livingstone in a queer out-moded bonnet. |