supplanted

英 [səˈplɑːntɪd]

美 [səˈplæntɪd]

v.  取代，替代(尤指年老者或落后于时代的事物)
supplant的过去分词和过去式

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。

双语例句

• A second plan soon supplanted the idea of paying farmers for not producing food and, indeed, became the cornerstone of national farm policy.
  第二项计划很快取代了对停止生产粮食的农民付给补助的办法，而且这项计划确实成了国家农业政策的基石。
• The prime minister was supplanted by his rival.
  首相被他的政敌赶下台了。
• In most offices, the type writer has now been supplanted by the computer.
  在当今许多办公室里，打字机已被电脑取代。
• Oil has supplanted coffee as our main export.
  我们的主要出口货已由原来的咖啡改为石油了。
• In countries like the Philippines, funding for basic research ( research for knowledge's sake) has largely been supplanted by donor-driven applied research.
  在菲律宾这样的国家，基础研究（以获取知识为目的的研究）的资助在很大程度上被捐助者驱动的应用研究排挤掉了。
• Within a short time the trading company had supplanted the individual promoter of colonization.
  在很短的时间内，这个贸易公司已经取代了个体殖民推动者。
• I have, of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who can not have been supplanted by phonograph.
  我的六十位老师之中，不可能以留声机来取代的，我看不到半打。
• Mr Graddol says the idea of English being supplanted as the world language is not fanciful.
  葛拉多尔表示，英语作为世界语言的地位被取代，这种想法并非不切实际。
• In any case, Henrietta never really supplanted Caroline.
  事实上，亨丽埃塔也从未真正地取代卡罗琳。
• Another insect-borne bacterium wins for second smallest genome and shows signs of being supplanted by a competing organism.
  寄生在昆虫中的另外一种细菌的基因组含量则次之。它也显示出正被迫逐步演化成一种的器官。