relegate

英 [ˈrelɪɡeɪt]

美 [ˈrelɪɡeɪt]

v.  使贬职; 使降级; 降低…的地位; 使(运动队，尤指足球队)降级; 使降组

过去分词：relegated　过去式：relegated　现在分词：relegating　第三人称单数：relegates　

CET6GRETEM8法律

Collins.2 / BNC.9742 / COCA.9699

牛津词典

verb

• 使贬职；使降级；降低…的地位
  to give sb a lower or less important position, rank, etc. than before
  1. She was then relegated to the role of assistant.
     随后她被降级做助手了。
  2. He relegated the incident to the back of his mind.
     他将这个事件抛到了脑后。
• 使（运动队，尤指足球队）降级；使降组
  to move a sports team, especially a football ( soccer ) team, to a lower position within an official league

柯林斯词典

• VERB 贬黜;把…降级;把…降格
  If yourelegatesomeone or somethingtoa less important position, you give them this position.
  1. Might it not be better to relegate the King to a purely ceremonial function?...
     让国王变成纯粹发挥典礼仪式上象征作用的元首会不会更好？
  2. Other newspapers relegated the item to the middle pages.
     其他的报纸把这条消息降格报道，放到了中间版面。
• VERB 使(球队)降级
  If a sports team that competes in a leagueis relegated, it has to compete in a lower division in the next competition, because it was one of the least successful teams in the higher division.
  1. If Leigh lose, they'll be relegated.
     如果利失球，他们将会降级。
  2. ...a team about to be relegated to the second division.
     即将被降到乙级的球队。

英英释义

verb

• assign to a class or kind
  1. How should algae be classified?
  2. People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms
  Synonym:classify
• assign to a lower position
  1. She was demoted because she always speaks up
  2. He was broken down to Sergeant
  Synonym:demotebumpbreakkick downstairs
• expel, as if by official decree
  1. he was banished from his own country
  Synonym:banishbar
• refer to another person for decision or judgment
  1. She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues
  Synonym:pass onsubmit

双语例句

• You might relegate onions to the list of old-fashioned kitchen standbys, as you can slice and dice them into everything from home fries and soups to omelets and casseroles.
  你大概会把洋葱归为老式餐点佐料，因为什么菜都可以加点洋葱切片，你可以炸洋葱圈，炖洋葱汤，煎洋葱烩蛋，还能把它扔到砂锅里去煮一煮。
• We can no longer relegate Afghanistan to the bottom of our priority list.
  我们再也不能把阿富汗推到我们首要日程表的底下。
• Barack Obama appears similarly determined to relegate mistrust as the two sides engage in their inaugural "strategic and economic dialogue" in Washington.
  在美中在华盛顿投入首轮“战略与经济对话”之际，巴拉克奥巴马（barackobama）似乎同样决心搁置不信任态度。
• As the chief proponent both of Linux and of the value of IT services, big blue would like nothing better than to change the rules of the game and relegate Microsoft to being just another software company.
  作为Linux和IT服务价值的最大支持者，IBM肯定想修改游戏规则，打破微软在软件界的统治地位。
• Netflix ( NFlx) today declared war on DVDs, pledging to relegate them to the same dustbin that is occupied by VHS and Betamax tapes.
  Netflix今天宣布对DVD开战，誓将DVD如同VHS录像带和Betamax录像带一样扫进垃圾箱。
• All above problems relegate to the ecological problem centering around on water resources, which is an ill domino effect leading by water resources gross shortage and unbalanced distributing to water resources.
  所有这些问题都是以水资源为核心要素的生态问题，是由于水资源总量不足而且分配不均衡所导致的负面效应。
• When these agglomerations of metal and biomass slough they relegate carbon, microbes, and metals to the sediments.
  当这些金属聚合物和生物体脱落时，它们将碳微生物和金属带入污泥中。
• Relegate old files to the storeroom.
  把旧文件存入储藏室。
• Such devices may relegate Moore's Law to secondary status.
  这类器材甚至可能贬低摩尔定律的地位。
• Linguistic connotations sometimes deny women and relegate women to a subordinate or inferior position; however, in some cases, they also contain some elements that have adverse effects on men.
  语言的内涵有时否定女性并把她们置于从属和较低的地位，然而，很多情况下，它也包含有对男性的不利因素。