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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The duke plotted to supplant the king.
  公爵阴谋取代国王的地位。
• Several new XML schema languages have emerged to supplant or augment DTDs, including RELAX NG, which is renowned for its simplicity and expressiveness.
  出现了几种新的XML模式语言以替代或增强DTD，其中包括RELAXNG，它以简洁性和表达能力著称。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。