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

• The thesis takes a Factory as an example, by means of Linear Programming, and analyzes the production arrangement on condition that labour force can relegate or not, then proves that the flexibility in labour force distribution can increase profit of enterprise markedly.
  本文以一个工厂为例，以线性规划法为手段，对比分析了在劳动力可转移和不可转移两种条件下的生产安排，证明了劳动力分配的灵活性能显著提高企业利润。
• Relegate a question to a committec
  把问题委托委员会处理
• We can no longer relegate Afghanistan to the bottom of our priority list.
  我们再也不能把阿富汗推到我们首要日程表的底下。
• If Leigh lose, they'll be relegated.
  如果利失球，他们将会降级。
• Due to the public nature of food crisis, it can be relegate to social public crisis.
  粮食危机具有公共性，当然是社会公共危机。
• 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。
• Relegate old files to the storeroom.
  把旧文件存入储藏室。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。