abandon, or dismiss someone or something that has become redundant, obsolete, useless, or unwanted.例句:I can't believe that after 20 years of hard work the company would just kick me to the curb like that!I think it's about time we kick this old computer to the curb.I heard...
Thirty-six years later, even the carpet sweeper was old-fashioned: modern homes now have a vacuum cleaner(吸尘器)with an electric motor to suck the dust. 1. Whose sewing machine could do far more than the work that was done by five skilled sewing women? A. Thomas Saint’s. B. ...
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In spite of these symptoms, Monsieur de Valois' constitution was vigorous, consequently long-lived.If his liver "heated," to use an old-fashioned word, his heart was not less inflammable.His face was wrinkled and his hair silvered; but an intelligent observer would have recognized at once the...
Old Fashioned Christian Morals & Character Another quality found in older books is that they were written at a time when God and the Bible were an assumed part of daily life. This contrasts sadly with our current situation where the mere mention of God, Jesus, Christianity or the Bible will...
An old-fashioned greed; money mailThe Last Word.(Column)Byline: TONY HAZELL ARE there no depths to which some salesmen will not sink in the quest...Hazell, Tony
"I want to be strong-minded in the real sense of the word, but I don't like to be called so by people who don't understand my meaning; and I shall be if I try to make the girls think soberly about anything sensible or philanthropic. They call me old-fashioned now, and I'd rat...
The structure becomes progressively weaker unless it's corrected by surgery. It's a damn shame that old-fashioned prudery keeps a lot of doctors from properly diagnosing and correcting the situation, and a lot of women from complaining about it.""Don't talk about it, please don't talk ...
based on at least three generations (that introducing the innovation as a minority; that spreading the innovation and accepting it as a majority; and finally that consecrating the old and now traditional and routine innovation making it obligatory for all, according to Lamo de Espinosa, 1996, p...
When I was nine years old I went off to summer camp for the first time。 And my mother packed me a suitcase full of books, which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do。 Because in my family, reading was the primary group activity。 And this might sound antisocial to you...