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

• 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。
• Relegate old files to the storeroom.
  把旧文件存入储藏室。
• The thesis takes a Factory as an example, by means of Linear Programming, and analyzes the production arrangement on condition that labour force can relegate or not, then proves that the flexibility in labour force distribution can increase profit of enterprise markedly.
  本文以一个工厂为例，以线性规划法为手段，对比分析了在劳动力可转移和不可转移两种条件下的生产安排，证明了劳动力分配的灵活性能显著提高企业利润。
• 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。
• You might relegate onions to the list of old-fashioned kitchen standbys, as you can slice and dice them into everything from home fries and soups to omelets and casseroles.
  你大概会把洋葱归为老式餐点佐料，因为什么菜都可以加点洋葱切片，你可以炸洋葱圈，炖洋葱汤，煎洋葱烩蛋，还能把它扔到砂锅里去煮一煮。
• All above problems relegate to the ecological problem centering around on water resources, which is an ill domino effect leading by water resources gross shortage and unbalanced distributing to water resources.
  所有这些问题都是以水资源为核心要素的生态问题，是由于水资源总量不足而且分配不均衡所导致的负面效应。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？