The new trend was also a great example of planned obsolescence, that is, to design a product so that it will soon become unfashionable or impossible to use and will need replacing.

这种新趋势也是一个关于计划性淘汰的好例子，即设计一个很快就不流行或无法使用随后需要替换的产品。

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Since it was to end so soon, I almost wish I had never heard it.

既然它这么快就结束了，我倒是希望我从来没有听见。

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We left the party as soon as it was polite to do so.

我们在不失礼节的情况下尽早离开了聚会。

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Well,Bill's horse soon was injured so Bill had to carry it for a hundred miles.

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Most of them thought it was mad from the start, arguing, quite correctly, that the cover for the invasion was so flimsy it would soon be blown.

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And he said it was not fair to demand that Celera know the biological mechanism behind the gene so soon after it was discovered.

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The commentator was disappointed it ended so soon.

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