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

• 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。
• 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。
• Economists can only forecast their worth, and these forecasts are rarely convincing enough to supplant one of the proven classics on the list.
  经济学家们只能预测它们的价值，但光凭预测很难令人信服地取代榜单中已被证明了的经典论文。
• 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。
• Electric cars may one day supplant petrol-driven ones.
  也许有一天电动车会取代汽油驱动的车。
• 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。
• Officials fear that if China is put in the dock it will ignore the fund and develop Asian monetary arrangements to supplant it.
  官员们担心，如果把中国置于被告席，它将会无视IMF，并用亚洲货币安排来取而代之。
• The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.
  动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。
• Freedom helps supplant the conditions of hopelessness that extremists exploit to recruit terrorists and suicide bombers.
  自由能够取代绝望的状态，而正是这种绝望被极端分子利用来招募恐怖分子和自杀炸弹手。
• Several new XML schema languages have emerged to supplant or augment DTDs, including RELAX NG, which is renowned for its simplicity and expressiveness.
  出现了几种新的XML模式语言以替代或增强DTD，其中包括RELAXNG，它以简洁性和表达能力著称。