displaces

英 [dɪsˈpleɪsɪz]

美 [dɪsˈpleɪsɪz]

v.  取代; 替代; 置换; 迫使(某人)离开家园; 移动; 挪开; 转移
displace的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 取代;代替;置换
  If one thingdisplacesanother, it forces the other thing out of its place, position, or role, and then occupies that place, position, or role itself.
  1. These factories have displaced tourism as the country's largest source of foreign exchange...
     这些工厂已取代旅游业成为该国最大的外汇来源。
  2. Coal is to be displaced by natural gas and nuclear power.
     煤炭将让位于天然气和核能。
• VERB 迫使…离开家园;迫使…迁徙;迫使…背井离乡
  If a person or group of peopleis displaced, they are forced to moved away from the area where they live.
  1. In Europe alone thirty million people were displaced...
     仅在欧洲就有3,000万人被迫背井离乡。
  2. Most of the civilians displaced by the war will be unable to return to their homes.
     许多因战乱而流离失所的百姓将无法重返家园。
  3. ...the task of resettling refugees and displaced persons.
     重新安置难民和无家可归者的任务

双语例句

• These devices exploit the fact that Brownian motion displaces small particles farther than it does big ones.
  这些元件利用的原理是，布朗运动让较小的粒子移动得比大的粒子远。
• Archimedes studied the problem and came up with the idea ( 1) that "a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up with a force equal to the weight of the fluid that it displaces."
  阿基米德研究这个问题，找到了办法：“物体浸入液体中所承受的浮力，等于物体所排除的液体的重量。”
• Zinc displaces the hydrogen of dilute acids. rule of diffusion with dilution
  锌置换了稀酸中的氢。稀释作用的扩散规律
• He realizes its volume as the space that the shape displaces in the air.
  他能意识到物体的体积，那就是它的形状有空气中所占的空间。
• But I have noticed that you and your family seem less than happy of late* What is it about my presence in your home that displaces you, Lucius?
  但我发现你和你的家人好像不太开心啊，是因为我出现在你家感到不开心了么，卢修斯？
• Our positions have been reversed. Zinc displaces the hydrogen of dilute acids.
  我们的位置被调换了。锌置换了稀酸中的氢。
• Creeping environmental deterioration already displaces 10m people a year.
  环境不断恶化已导致每年有1000万人流离失所。
• A symbol of our current indifference is that filling up a single tankful of a sport utility vehicle with corn-based ethanol displaces enough calories to feed one Egyptian farmer for a whole year.
  给一辆SUV加满玉米乙醇所耗费的卡路里就足以养活一个埃及农民一整年，从中就可以看出我们现时的冷漠。
• Zinc displaces the hydrogen of dilute acids.
  锌置换了稀酸中的氢。
• Yet the basic concept is tested, and it seems time to try it more aggressively to see if it can grow and also if this form of saving merely displaces other forms, rather than actually raising the total too.
  不过，基本概念已经过测试，现在似乎应该进行更大胆的尝试，看看这种模式能否发展，抑或这种储蓄方式只会取代其它方式，而不会实际增加储蓄总额。