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

• 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。
• Technology should not supplant what you usually teach.
  技术不能代替你通常的教。
• He may be supplanted by a younger man
  他可能会被一个年龄比他小的人取代。
• But the challenge may be to make the economics of a railway designed to supplant the canal add up.
  但挑战也许在于，如何能让旨在取代运河的铁路线增加经济效益。
• 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。
• People seem to think that Rip was written to "fix" or supplant RubyGems.
  看起来人们认为Rip是“修正”或者是补充RubyGems。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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***手。
• 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。