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

• CAM is almost certainly here to stay and supplant its predecessors.
  这里可以断言的是，CAM肯定会替代其前辈。
• 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。
• 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。
• If, in the next century, electronic markets begin to supplant companies as the organising force behind economic exchange, we will confront these dilemmas anew.
  如果在下一个世纪，电子市场开始取代企业，成为组织经济交换的力量，那么我们将再次面对这些难题。
• 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。
• Technology should not supplant what you usually teach.
  技术不能代替你通常的教。
• It is destined, some say, to supplant not only internet advertising, the latest fad, but also television, radio, print and billboards, the four traditional pillars of the business.
  手机广告必定会取代的不仅仅是因特网广告这个当前的热宠，也包括电视机、收音机、出版物和广告牌这四类商业界的传统广告支柱。
• 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。
• It is my view that the new historical disciplines complement rather than supplant traditional history.
  我认为这些新的历史学科对传统历史学起到了补充而非排挤作用。