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。
• 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。
• Economists can only forecast their worth, and these forecasts are rarely convincing enough to supplant one of the proven classics on the list.
  经济学家们只能预测它们的价值，但光凭预测很难令人信服地取代榜单中已被证明了的经典论文。
• 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。
• 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。
• A broader group of naysayers would be jolted into supporting the global approach, including India and Brazil as well as the EU, because they would be so adversely affected if "plan B" were to supplant Doha.
  范围更广泛的反对者，将会加入支持全球化进程的行列，包括印度、巴西及欧盟，因为如果“b计划”取代了多哈回合谈判，它们将受到极为不利的影响。
• I believe one day electric cars will supplant petrol-driven ones.
  我相信电子汽车总有一天会取代汽油汽车。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。