superannuated

super-,超过，-ann,年，词源同 annual.比喻用法，超过年龄的。

superannuated (adj.)

1630s, "obsolete, out of date;" 1740, "retired on account of old age," from Modern Latin superannuatus, alteration (perhaps by influence of annual) of Medieval Latin superannatus (which meant "more than a year old" and was used of cattle), from Latin super "beyond, over" (see super-) + annus "year" (see annual (adj.)). Earlier in same sense was superannate (c. 1600), from Medieval Latin superannatus. Compare French suranner.

1. Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

老朽无能的学究最令人讨厌不过。

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2. Are you still riding that superannuated old bike?

你还骑那辆老掉牙的自行车 吗 ?

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1. discharged as too old for use or work; especially with a pension;

"a superannuated civil servant"

2. too old to be useful;

"He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders"- Anthony Trollope

3. old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable;

"obsolete words"

"an obsolete locomotive"

"outdated equipment"

"superannuated laws"

"out-of-date ideas"

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

老朽无能的学究最令人讨厌不过。

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Are you still riding that superannuated old bike?

你还骑那辆老掉牙的自行车 吗 ?

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