relegated

英 [ˈrelɪɡeɪtɪd]

美 [ˈrelɪɡeɪtɪd]

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
relegate的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：relegated　过去式：relegated　

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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。

双语例句

• If they don't win more games, the football team may be relegated to a lower group.
  如果该足球队不赢得更多的比赛，他们有可能被降级。
• I think that should be relegated to the garbage can of history.
  我认为应该把它扔进历史的垃圾箱。
• The latest developments in Afghanistan prove how easily women's rights can be relegated even under western sponsorship.
  阿富汗的最新发展证明了即使在西方的支持下，女性的权利也可以多么轻易地被丢弃。
• The mentally ill tend to be relegated to slapstick sub-plots, alongside a central love story.
  精神病问题往往成了爱情故事这个主题之外的闹剧性次要情节。
• They provide funds and senior managers to customers that may be relegated to automated phone-hell at bigger institutions.
  它们给那些在更大机构会被交付给自动电话服务地狱的顾客们提供资金和高级经理。
• They've relegated us to this dark little office.
  他们把我们放到这间又小又黑的办公室。
• If Leigh lose, they'll be relegated.
  如果利失球，他们将会降级。
• This agency will be relegated to the backwaters of Washington
  这个机构将沦落为华盛顿闭塞落后之地。
• 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。
• He never involves his senior staff in decision making; they feel relegated to the status of office boys.
  他从不让那些年长职员参与决策；他们感觉像是被当作办公室跑腿的了。