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

• 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。
• Relegate old files to the storeroom.
  把旧文件存入储藏室。
• But we cannot relegate computer games to the cesspit of pop culture solely on the evidence of the current crop of games.
  可是，咱们不能由于这个行业现有的水平，而直接把电脑游戏一脚踹进流行文化的泥潭里。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• As the chief proponent both of Linux and of the value of IT services, big blue would like nothing better than to change the rules of the game and relegate Microsoft to being just another software company.
  作为Linux和IT服务价值的最大支持者，IBM肯定想修改游戏规则，打破微软在软件界的统治地位。
• Relegate a question to a committec
  把问题委托委员会处理
• Committee of Experts on Rules of Procedure of the Security Council relegate a question to a committec
  安全理事会议事规则问题专家委员会把问题委托委员会处理