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

• 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。
• That you relegate power to the war revolutionary committee.
  你们把政权转交给革命军事委员会。
• A neglect of appropriate gender distinctions and segregation between male and female would relegate the human order to the level of an animal society.
  如果不顾性别差异，无视男女大防，人类社会就会降至动物群落的水平。
• 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。
• 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。
• Liu Yuxi is a famous writer, philosopher and the statesman in the middle stages of the Tang Dynasty. He repeatedly suffered relegate in his life, But always in high spirit.
  刘禹锡是中唐时期著名的文学家、哲学家和政治家，他一生屡遭贬谪，但始终斗志不息。
• 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。
• If Leigh lose, they'll be relegated.
  如果利失球，他们将会降级。
• Due to the public nature of food crisis, it can be relegate to social public crisis.
  粮食危机具有公共性，当然是社会公共危机。
• 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。