Replace
[rɪ'pleɪs] or [rɪ'ples]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected); 'He replaced the old razor blade'; 'We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago'; 'the insurance will replace the lost income'; 'This antique vase can never be replaced'.
(verb.) put something back where it belongs; 'replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it'; 'please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them'.
埃德娜校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
(v. t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
(v. t.) To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
(v. t.) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.
(v. t.) To put in a new or different place.
錄入:米尔顿
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Reinstate, re-establish, put back.[2]. Refund, repay, restore, pay back.[3]. Take the place of, supply the want of.
校對:玛克辛
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Restore, supply, substitute, reinstate, rearrange, re-establish
ANT:Move, abstract, withdraw, remove, damage, deprive
手打:纳塔利
解釋/意思:
v.t. to place back: to put again in a former place condition &c.: to repay: to provide a substitute for: to take the place of.—adj. Replace′able.—ns. Replace′ment act of replacing: the removal of an edge of crystal by one plane or more; Replac′er a substitute; Car′-replac′er a device on American railways for replacing derailed wheels on the track.—Replacing switch a pair of iron plates fitting over the rails used as a bridge to replace on the track derailed railway stock.
錄入:奥利维尔
例句/造句/用法:
- It was between ten and eleven o'clock when Mrs. Micawber rose to replace her cap in the whitey-brown paper parcel, and to put on her bonnet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Is he to replace me? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- A second developed a trigonometry of sines to replace the Ptolemaic trigonometry of chords. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It had to break down, it had to be removed before anything better could replace it. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If destroyed he never can replace it. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- While he was doing this Stephenson was patiently building new locomotives, and trying to induce the mine-owners along the Tyne to replace their horse-cars with his engines. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Letters have proved of no avail--personal inquiry shall replace them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The pleasanter face which had replaced his, on the occasion of my last visit, answered to our summons, and went before us to the drawing-room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Gale suggested that his simple electro-magnet, with its few turns of thick wire, should be replaced by one with a coil of long thin wire. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- India is still the empire of the Great Mogul, but the Great Mogul has been replaced by the crowned republic of Great Britain. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Towards the end of October it dwindled away, and was in some degree replaced by a typhus, of hardly less virulence. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Later, the bowl became more pointed, the drop was replaced by a tongue, and the handle, after 1760, instead of slightly curving to the front at the end, reversed the position. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The skin, however, peeled off, and new skin replaced it without any damage. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I next removed the white and cumbersome parts of my underclothing, and replaced them by a petticoat of dark flannel. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Grin away,' said Sikes, replacing the poker, and surveying him with savage contempt; 'grin away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Vice,' said the surgeon, replacing the curtain, 'takes up her abode in many temples; and who can say that a fair outside shell not enshrine her? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Replacing her daughter on the couch, she smoothed the pillow and spread the sheet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The strength of a motor may be increased by replacing the singly coiled armature by one closely wound on an iron core; in some armatures there are thousands of turns of wire. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Replacing his javelin, he resumed his seat, bent his looks downward, and appeared to be absorbed in melancholy reflection. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But they have no plan for replacing it. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Changes of climate which were replacing forest by pasture, and the accidental burning of forests by fire may have assisted this development. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Their labour, it is said, replaces only the stock which employs them, together with its ordinary profits. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The positive metal electrode gradually dissolves and replaces the metal lost from the solution by deposit and electroplating can continue as long as any positive electrode remains. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- These are the only means possible; even the windmill does not eliminate the necessity for the pump, but merely replaces the energy used by man in working it. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- This lowest price is that which barely replaces, with a moderate profit, the stock which must be employed in bringing the commodity thither. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Land even replaces, in part at least, the capitals with which fisheries and mines are cultivated. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In the phonograph, a diaphragm replaces the tuning fork and a cylinder (or a disk) coated with wax replaces the glass plate. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
整理:玛米