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

• 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。
• It is destined, some say, to supplant not only internet advertising, the latest fad, but also television, radio, print and billboards, the four traditional pillars of the business.
  手机广告必定会取代的不仅仅是因特网广告这个当前的热宠，也包括电视机、收音机、出版物和广告牌这四类商业界的传统广告支柱。
• People seem to think that Rip was written to "fix" or supplant RubyGems.
  看起来人们认为Rip是“修正”或者是补充RubyGems。
• 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。
• 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。
• Officials fear that if China is put in the dock it will ignore the fund and develop Asian monetary arrangements to supplant it.
  官员们担心，如果把中国置于被告席，它将会无视IMF，并用亚洲货币安排来取而代之。
• 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。
• After four seasons and four Outstanding Comedy awards, it felt like something was going to supplant Modern Family.
  《摩登家庭》已经出了四季，获得了四个杰出喜剧奖，人们感到或许有新片会取而代之。
• 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。
• I believe one day electric cars will supplant petrol-driven ones.
  我相信电子汽车总有一天会取代汽油汽车。