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

• 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。
• 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炸弹手。
• Many people have existing stores, formats, systems and p2 is not going to supplant them.
  许多人都有现存的存储、格式或系统，而p2不会去取代这些已有的东西。
• 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。
• Electric cars may one day supplant petrol-driven ones.
  也许有一天电动车会取代汽油驱动的车。
• 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。
• More specifically, market-driven, objective and transparent targets for planning and compensation should supplant politically-driven, subjective and negotiated targets.
  更具体地说，市场导向、客观和透明的规划及薪酬目标，应取代政治导向、主观和私下商定的目标。
• After four seasons and four Outstanding Comedy awards, it felt like something was going to supplant Modern Family.
  《摩登家庭》已经出了四季，获得了四个杰出喜剧奖，人们感到或许有新片会取而代之。
• The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.
  动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。
• 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。