out-,超过，mode,模式。比喻用法。

1. Romania badly needs aid to modernise its outmoded industries.

罗马尼亚亟需援助以使其落后的工业现代化。

2. The political system has become thoroughly outmoded.

这一政治体制已经完全落伍了。

3. To my thinking they will be outmoded in four years.

据我看来,四年之后这些就会过时.

4. Water transportation was outmoded by railroads and good pikes.

水上运输已因铁路和良好的税道而变得过时了.

5. What hope is there, if people in positions of power continue to promote outmoded attitudes?

如果当权者仍然抱残守缺，还有什么希望可言？