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

• Liu Zongyuan was still encountered relegate life with dedication to the ideals and reality, short self-regulation through landscape gardening was not enable him to go beyond the obstacles.
  柳宗元遭遇贬谪后则仍然执着于人生理想、执着于现实，寄情于山水的短暂自我调节始终没有使他超越感伤的心理障碍。
• 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。
• It is therefore impossible to relegate the art of expression to the few fields of music and dancing and painting.
  所以，要把表现的艺术归于音乐、舞蹈、和绘画这几方面是不可能的。
• A neglect of appropriate gender distinctions and segregation between male and female would relegate the human order to the level of an animal society.
  如果不顾性别差异，无视男女大防，人类社会就会降至动物群落的水平。
• Barack Obama appears similarly determined to relegate mistrust as the two sides engage in their inaugural "strategic and economic dialogue" in Washington.
  在美中在华盛顿投入首轮“战略与经济对话”之际，巴拉克奥巴马（barackobama）似乎同样决心搁置不信任态度。
• Archives are tools of power and while they always seem to start in a fairly benign fashion, they inevitable relegate everything outside the archive to the status of unimportant or irrelevant.
  档案是权利的工具，虽然它们似乎总是在一开始相当温和的方式开始，他们必然贬谪外面不重要的档案或不相关的一切的地位。
• Netflix ( NFlx) today declared war on DVDs, pledging to relegate them to the same dustbin that is occupied by VHS and Betamax tapes.
  Netflix今天宣布对DVD开战，誓将DVD如同VHS录像带和Betamax录像带一样扫进垃圾箱。
• 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。
• Liverpool won2-0 at bottom club Albion yesterday to relegate Tony Mowbray's side.
  昨天，利物浦2-0战胜了垫底的西布朗，使得该球队注定降级。
• And it may relegate the idea of establishing a lifelong career to a distant memory.
  而且它也许让人们忘记建立一个毕生的事业是一个什么样的概念。