Supplant
[sə'plɑːnt] or [sə'plænt]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) take the place or move into the position of; 'Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left'; 'the computer has supplanted the slide rule'; 'Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school'.
整理:史黛丝--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) To trip up.
(n.) To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince.
(n.) To overthrow, undermine, or force away, in order to get a substitute in place of.
弗兰克編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Undermine, overthrow.[2]. Displace (by stratagem), replace, remove, supersede.
校對:威拉德
解釋/意思:
v.t. to displace by stratagem: to take the place of: to undermine.—ns. Supplantā′tion; Supplant′er.
整理:丽纳
例句/造句/用法:
- Fleeming Jenkins that Gas engines will ultimately supplant the steam. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- One species of charlock has been known to supplant another species; and so in other cases. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I don't want to supplant you in Miss Crawley's good graces. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I hate him for trying to supplant Mr. Franklin! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Most ingenious machines have been devised for picking cotton in the fields, but none have yet reached that stage of perfection sufficient to supplant the human fingers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Other modern inventions in well-making machinery have consisted in innumerable devices to supplant manual labour and to meet new conditions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Mr. Thomson made the objection that it was impracticable, and that it would be impossible to supplant steam. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Another told of the dim flicker of gas supplanted by a steady glare, bright and mellow. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Why have not the more highly developed forms every where supplanted and exterminated the lower? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- This change, beginning about 1860 and running through a period of nearly twenty years, has gradually supplanted the old electro-chemical dualistic theory and established the present system. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The heated air which rises from furnaces is seldom hot enough to warm large buildings well; hence furnace heating is being largely supplanted by hot-water heating. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- No useful contrivances are suddenly or apparently ever entirely supplanted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In time, of course, Mr. Knightley would be forgotten, that is, supplanted; but this could not be expected to happen very early. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Wind and water as motive powers have been supplanted by steam and electricity. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- When these fine roads become the possession of a country light traction engines for passenger traffic will be found largely supplanting the horse and the steam railroad engines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
錄入:米尔顿