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

• If Leigh lose, they'll be relegated.
  如果利失球，他们将会降级。
• It is therefore impossible to relegate the art of expression to the few fields of music and dancing and painting.
  所以，要把表现的艺术归于音乐、舞蹈、和绘画这几方面是不可能的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• And it may relegate the idea of establishing a lifelong career to a distant memory.
  而且它也许让人们忘记建立一个毕生的事业是一个什么样的概念。
• 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。
• Through the image of these studies can be seen that the word relegate people in the inner world and the period of the ideal personality.
  通过对这几个意象的研究，可以了解到词人身处贬谪时期的内心世界和人格理想。