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

• The decision to "relegate" Mono from production to sample status has been based on multiple factors.
  作出将Mono从产品“降级”为样例地位的决定源于多个因素。
• Relegate a question to a committec
  把问题委托委员会处理
• 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。
• Liverpool won2-0 at bottom club Albion yesterday to relegate Tony Mowbray's side.
  昨天，利物浦2-0战胜了垫底的西布朗，使得该球队注定降级。
• But we cannot relegate computer games to the cesspit of pop culture solely on the evidence of the current crop of games.
  可是，咱们不能由于这个行业现有的水平，而直接把电脑游戏一脚踹进流行文化的泥潭里。
• 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。
• That you relegate power to the war revolutionary committee.
  你们把政权转交给革命军事委员会。
• Committee of Experts on Rules of Procedure of the Security Council relegate a question to a committec
  安全理事会议事规则问题专家委员会把问题委托委员会处理
• 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。
• 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。