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Analysts at Booz Allen Hamilton tried in 2007 to estimate how much investment would be needed in water infrastructure to modernise obsolescent systems and meet expanding demand between 2005 and 2030.
博思艾倫諮詢公司的分析家，在2007年試著計(jì)算將過時(shí)的系統(tǒng)變得現(xiàn)代化，需投資多少在水資源基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施上，竝滿足2005到2030年日益龐大的需求。
If redacted today, the OED might include an obsolescent flag on that "choice part or flower" definition, and a new sense should be added: "one's out-of-touch political opponents.
如果現(xiàn)在重新收錄編輯的話，牛津英語詞典可能會在表達(dá)“所選部分或精華”之意前加注一個(gè)將要過時(shí)的標(biāo)識，同時(shí)添加一個(gè)新的意思“在政治上某人強(qiáng)大的競爭對手。
Indeed, it could be obsolescent only a few years after it enters service.
事實(shí)上，服役不幾年它就可能過時(shí)了。

The pace of technological development is making formats and reading devices become obsolescent in less than a decade.
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The bulk of this amount (roughly 80 percent) would go toward replacement of obsolescent aircraft, ships and tanks.
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The arsenal that the weapons complex and laboratories support is comprised of increasingly obsolescent arms and their delivery platforms.
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If something is obsolescent, it is becoming out of date because something better has been invented.