demote

英 [ˌdiːˈməʊt]

美 [ˌdiːˈmoʊt]

v.  使降级，使降职，使降低地位(常作为惩罚)

过去分词：demoted　过去式：demoted　现在分词：demoting　第三人称单数：demotes　

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牛津词典

verb

• 使降级，使降职，使降低地位（常作为惩罚）
  to move sb to a lower position or rank, often as a punishment

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使降级;使降职;使降低地位
  If someonedemotesyou, they give you a lower rank or a less important position than you already have, often as a punishment.
  1. It's very difficult to demote somebody who has been standing in during maternity leave...
     要将一个在别人休产假期间顶替上来的人再降职是非常困难的。
  2. If they prove ineffective they should be demoted or asked to retire.
     如果事实证明他们已无力胜任，应该将他们降级或让他们退休。
• VERB 使(球队等)降级
  If a team in a sports leagueis demoted, that team has to compete in the next competition in a lower division, because it was one of the least successful teams in the higher division.
  1. The club was demoted at the end of last season.
     上个赛季末该俱乐部被降级了。

英英释义

verb

• assign to a lower position
  1. She was demoted because she always speaks up
  2. He was broken down to Sergeant
  Synonym:bumprelegatebreakkick downstairs

双语例句

• Philosophy as the self-consciousness of human being in a theoretic form, is always holding it as its pursuing goal and theoretic undertaking to promote greatness and demote paltriness.
  哲学作为理论形态的人类自我意识，它一向是以阐扬崇高和贬抑渺小作为自已的追求目标和理论使命。
• But for a long time, Scholar& Beauty Romance has demote and treat coldly by academia all the time, the novel poesy of the gifted scholar and beautiful woman has got extremely inequitable appraisal too.
  但长期以来，才子佳人小说一直受到学术界的贬斥冷落，才子佳人小说诗词也得到了极不公正的评价。
• The club was demoted at the end of last season.
  上个赛季末该俱乐部被降级了。
• In the electrochemical analysis and experiment of coating material, it demote Zn and Al, which provide cathodic protection has good anti corrosion to sea water.
  通过对涂层材料的电化学分析及试验结果表明，提供阴极保护的Zn、Al涂层有优良的耐海水腐蚀性能。
• The President also has the statutory power to designate one of the commissioners of an independent agency to serve as chairman, and to "demote" the chairman back to the rank of commissioner without cause.
  总统还享有法定权力任命委员之一为独立机关的主席，并可无原因的将该主席降级为委员。
• Demote: This allows the guild leader to demote members within the guild to lower ranks.
  降级：这个功能允许会长将会员降级到低级阶层。
• In the same time, this phenomenon reflected the Song officials fearing of demote and their reluctance to leave the government posts, sentimentally attached to the.
  望京现象也反映了宋人对贬谪的惧怕，对京职的留恋，对中原文化的眷恋和对落后地区的畏惧与鄙。
• To demote a field, select the field and then click Demote on the toolbar.
  若要降级字段，请选择字段，再单击工具栏上的降级。
• From this point of view, we must try our best to utilize positive factor and modern combination governed by law among family's factor, not demote family composition and family's culture in the family firm simply.
  从这个角度看，我们得尽量积极利用家族因素中的积极因素和现代法治的结合点，而不是一味贬斥家族企业中的家族成分和家族文化。
• Participation in the Plan does not impair or limit the Company's right to transfer, promote, or demote, or terminate the employment of any Participant at any time.
  参与本计划不会削弱或限制公司随时调动、提升参与者或使之降职，或终止与任何参与者的雇佣关系的权利。