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supplant

英 [səˈplɑːnt]

美 [səˈplænt]

v.  取代,替代(尤指年老者或落后于时代的事物)

过去分词:supplanted 现在分词:supplanting 过去式:supplanted 第三人称单数:supplants 复数:supplants 

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Collins.1 / BNC.14209 / COCA.12090

牛津词典

    verb

    • 取代,替代(尤指年老者或落后于时代的事物)
      to take the place of sb/sth (especially sb/sth older or less modern)

      柯林斯词典

      • VERB 替代;取代
        If a person or thingis supplanted, another person or thing takes their place.
        1. He may be supplanted by a younger man...
          他可能会被一个年龄比他小的人取代。
        2. By the 1930s the wristwatch had almost completely supplanted the pocket watch.
          到了 20 世纪 30 年代,手表几乎完全取代了怀表。

      英英释义

      verb

      • take the place or move into the position of
        1. Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left
        2. the computer has supplanted the slide rule
        3. Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school
        Synonym:replacesupersedesupervene uponsupercede

      双语例句

      • But the challenge may be to make the economics of a railway designed to supplant the canal add up.
        但挑战也许在于,如何能让旨在取代运河的铁路线增加经济效益。
      • Google Earth, though, gives the company a new way to bring its brand to the world, notably with students for whom the software will help supplant atlases and encyclopedias.
        不过,”谷歌地球“为公司带来了一个新方法,将品牌推广给世界,特别给那些它要通过替代地图集、百科全书去帮助的学生们。
      • A broader group of naysayers would be jolted into supporting the global approach, including India and Brazil as well as the EU, because they would be so adversely affected if "plan B" were to supplant Doha.
        范围更广泛的反对者,将会加入支持全球化进程的行列,包括印度、巴西及欧盟,因为如果“b计划”取代了多哈回合谈判,它们将受到极为不利的影响。
      • Many people have existing stores, formats, systems and p2 is not going to supplant them.
        许多人都有现存的存储、格式或系统,而p2不会去取代这些已有的东西。
      • Improved methods of production must constantly supplant obsolete methods, if both old needs and new wants are to be filled by better commodities and better means.
        如果要想有更好的产品和更好的手段能满足新老需求,改进的生产方式必须不断取代陈旧的生产方式。
      • Freedom helps supplant the conditions of hopelessness that extremists exploit to recruit terrorists and suicide bombers.
        自由能够取代绝望的状态,而正是这种绝望被极端分子利用来招募恐怖分子和自杀炸弹手。
      • It is my view that the new historical disciplines complement rather than supplant traditional history.
        我认为这些新的历史学科对传统历史学起到了补充而非排挤作用。
      • The duke plotted to supplant the king.
        公爵阴谋取代国王的地位。
      • Perhaps that will inspire some radically new approaches to speech understanding that will supplant the methods we're developing now.
        也许这将会把一些方法带到计算机语音理解,来取代我们现在在开发的方法。
      • If, in the next century, electronic markets begin to supplant companies as the organising force behind economic exchange, we will confront these dilemmas anew.
        如果在下一个世纪,电子市场开始取代企业,成为组织经济交换的力量,那么我们将再次面对这些难题。