More companies are learning the importance of destructive technologies—innovations that hold the potential to make a product line, or even an entire business segment, virtually outdated.(越來越多的公司正在意識到變革性技術的重要性，它幾乎能令一條產品線、甚至是整個業務部門都因過時而被淘汰。)

What's outdated?(什么已過時了？)

Much of this criticism is outdated, say the ECAs.(ECA說大多數的批評是過時的。)

Incomplete or outdated architecture plan.(不完整或過時的架構計劃。)

Sentencing Guidelines when they determine penalties, and in the case of animal fighting, those guidelines are outdated and extremely inadequate.(量刑指南在確定刑罰時，如果發生動物搏斗，那這些指南就已經過時了，而且非常不充分。)

That's bad news for the environment — and our wallets — as these outdated devices consume much more energy than the newer ones that do the same things.(這對環境和我們的錢包來說是個壞消息，因為這些過時的設備比功能相同的新設備消耗更多的能量。)

The car has been criticized for its outdated body styling.(這種轎車因其過時的車身式樣而受到批評。)

As the costs of shipbuilding rose, Venice clung to its outdated standard while the Dutch were innovating in the lighter and more easily handled ships.(隨著造船成本的上升，威尼斯堅持其過時的標準，而荷蘭人則對更輕、更容易操作的船只進行創新。)

Household appliances were bought secondhand and are outdated.(家用電器曾是二手買的，現在已經過時了。)

What he saw immediately was that the infrastructure was completely outdated—they were paying three full-time admin staff just for data-entry.(他的第一印象是這里的基礎設施完全過時了——他們花錢請了三名全職管理人員只是來負責數據錄入。)