The system was state of the art.

这一系统是当时最先进的。

Here you review the state of the art relevant to your thesis.

这里你要回顾一下与你论文相关的知识的现状。

State of the art probabilistic matching and survivorship decision engine

先进的可能性匹配和挑选决策引擎

However now they are teaching in a state of the art campus, known around the world.

然而现在他们在一个艺术院校执教，在世界都很有名。

The 1999 version was crude by our current standards, even though it was state of the art at the time.

用如今的观点看来，1999 的版本太简陋了，尽管这在当前很时尚。