"Outdated" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough
 lǎo shì old-fashioned / old type / outdated
 bèi shí outdated / out of luck
 lǎo huà (of a person, population or material) to age / (of knowledge) to become outdated
退 tuì yì (of military personnel or athletes) to retire / (of outdated equipment) to be decommissioned
 luò wǔ to fall behind the ranks / to be outdated
 jiù wén outdated news / old anecdote / stories passed on from former times
 míng rì huáng huā lit. chrysanthemums after the Double Ninth Festival (idiom) / fig. outdated / thing of the past / dead letter
 zuān gù zhǐ duī to dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom) / to study old books and papers
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