Displace
[dɪs'pleɪs] or [dɪs'ples]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) cause to move, usually with force or pressure; 'the refugees were displaced by the war'.
(verb.) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; 'The boss fired his secretary today'; 'The company terminated 25% of its workers'.
科妮莉亚手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.
(v. t.) To crowd out; to take the place of.
(v. t.) To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.
(v. t.) To dislodge; to drive away; to banish.
錄入:纳丁
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Remove, dislodge, put out of place, change the place of.[2]. Depose, oust, dismiss, discharge, cashier, eject from office.
校對:特伦斯
同義詞及反義詞:
[See PLACE]
錄入:帕特里斯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to put out of place: to disarrange: to remove from a state office or dignity.—adj. Displace′able.—n. Displace′ment a putting out of place: the difference between the position of a body at a given time and that occupied at first: the quantity of water displaced by a ship afloat.
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例句/造句/用法:
- When I became Joe's 'prentice, Orlick was perhaps confirmed in some suspicion that I should displace him; howbeit, he liked me still less. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- If a machine is made that will in an hour do the work that formerly required several days’ hand labor that machine is certain to displace that hand labor. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The swiftness with which the papers displaced the gruesome details of the little girl's death by exultation over the business future of the city was a caution. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Someone may have shaken the box and displaced it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- She began to arrange a locket-ribbon about my neck, she displaced and replaced the comb in my hair; while thus busied, Graham entered. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Mr. Shepard went on to state that the chemical meters were gradually displaced, and that on September 1, 1898, there were on the system 5619 mechanical and 4874 chemical. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The truth seems to be that a long line of disillusive centuries has permanently displaced the Hellenic idea of life, or whatever it may be called. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- In all modern mills these have been entirely displaced by porcelain rolls revolving on horizontal axes and crushing the grain between them. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Free chlorine is heavier than air, and hence when it leaves the exit tube it settles at the bottom of the jar, displacing the air, and finally filling the bottle. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Keep a pie pan filled with water in the ventilator for moisture and keep two or three moist sponges in the egg drawer, displacing a few eggs for the purpose. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The new love was displacing her already from her place as first in his heart. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- In doing so, she displaces the mother's dress, but quickly readjusts it over the wounded and bruised bosom where the baby has been lying. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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