supplant

英 [səˈplɑːnt]

美 [səˈplænt]

v.  取代，替代(尤指年老者或落后于时代的事物)

过去分词：supplanted　现在分词：supplanting　过去式：supplanted　第三人称单数：supplants　复数：supplants　

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Collins.1 / BNC.14209 / COCA.12090

牛津词典

verb

• 取代，替代（尤指年老者或落后于时代的事物）
  to take the place of sb/sth (especially sb/sth older or less modern)

柯林斯词典

• VERB 替代;取代
  If a person or thingis supplanted, another person or thing takes their place.
  1. He may be supplanted by a younger man...
     他可能会被一个年龄比他小的人取代。
  2. By the 1930s the wristwatch had almost completely supplanted the pocket watch.
     到了 20 世纪 30 年代，手表几乎完全取代了怀表。

英英释义

verb

• take the place or move into the position of
  1. Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left
  2. the computer has supplanted the slide rule
  3. Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school
  Synonym:replacesupersedesupervene uponsupercede

双语例句

• Technology should not supplant what you usually teach.
  技术不能代替你通常的教。
• All over Latin america, meanwhile, there have been eager predictions of a massive boost to employment and economic growth, thanks to a new benefactor who could supplant, at least in part, the role played by American-dominated financial institutions and America itself.
  此时，拉美举国上下都已在迫切希望着由于新的捐助者取代了，至少部分取代了美国和美国主导的金融机构而带来的就业率提高和经济增长。
• Fortunately it was never my goal to supplant their real father in their affection.
  所幸的是，组成新家后，我从未想过自己要取代孩子心中对生父的爱。
• Google Earth, though, gives the company a new way to bring its brand to the world, notably with students for whom the software will help supplant atlases and encyclopedias.
  不过，”谷歌地球“为公司带来了一个新方法，将品牌推广给世界，特别给那些它要通过替代地图集、百科全书去帮助的学生们。
• To take the place of, especially by force; supplant.
  取代取代，尤指使用武力；代替。
• Separately, Russia has tried to create a joint ratings agency with China to supplant the three big Western ratings giants.
  另外，俄罗斯试图与中国建立一个联合评级机构，以取代西方国家的三大评级巨头。
• Even the attempts to supplant it pay IQ the tribute of accepting its frame of reference.
  甚至各种取代“智商”的尝试也都以它作为参照。
• Improved methods of production must constantly supplant obsolete methods, if both old needs and new wants are to be filled by better commodities and better means.
  如果要想有更好的产品和更好的手段能满足新老需求，改进的生产方式必须不断取代陈旧的生产方式。
• Perhaps that will inspire some radically new approaches to speech understanding that will supplant the methods we're developing now.
  也许这将会把一些方法带到计算机语音理解，来取代我们现在在开发的方法。
• I believe one day electric cars will supplant petrol-driven ones.
  我相信电子汽车总有一天会取代汽油汽车。