Contrary to what you have heard, it's not because jobs making things have somehow been made obsolete, like the jobs of those making buggy whips.

和你过去听到的说法刚好相反，这并不是因为制造东西的工作已经或多或少地过时了，就像是生产马车鞭的工作一样。

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There are obsolete units of measure that came about due to the convenience of measuring off things against parts of the body.

在人们图方便用身体部位测量物体尺寸的过程中产生的度量单位，有一些现在已不再使用了。

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We longed for this Utopian future when the office would be obsolete, commuting would be a thing of the past and we'd no longer have to deal with pesky door handles or irritating things like meat pies.

我们渴望这种乌托邦式的未来，当办公室成为过时的东西，交换将成为过去，我们将不再不得不处理那些令人讨厌的买卖，或是像肉馅饼一样气人的东西。

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For a franchise that has come as close as any in the league to embodying consistent excellence, such a slipup might have seemed a signal for drastic change, an indication that New Jersey's way of doing things was obsolete.

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