demoted

英 [ˌdiːˈməʊtɪd]

美 [ˌdiːˈmoʊtɪd]

v.  使降级，使降职，使降低地位(常作为惩罚)
demote的过去分词和过去式

过去式：demoted　过去分词：demoted　

COCA.40323

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使降级;使降职;使降低地位
  If someonedemotesyou, they give you a lower rank or a less important position than you already have, often as a punishment.
  1. It's very difficult to demote somebody who has been standing in during maternity leave...
     要将一个在别人休产假期间顶替上来的人再降职是非常困难的。
  2. If they prove ineffective they should be demoted or asked to retire.
     如果事实证明他们已无力胜任，应该将他们降级或让他们退休。
• VERB 使(球队等)降级
  If a team in a sports leagueis demoted, that team has to compete in the next competition in a lower division, because it was one of the least successful teams in the higher division.
  1. The club was demoted at the end of last season.
     上个赛季末该俱乐部被降级了。

双语例句

• They have been demoted to less responsible jobs.
  他们被降职去做不太重要的工作。
• If they prove ineffective they should be demoted or asked to retire.
  如果事实证明他们已无力胜任，应该将他们降级或让他们退休。
• For offending the Royal court, he was demoted to a prefect of zhongzhou.
  由于冒犯了朝廷，他被贬为中州知府。
• He would be moved sideways, rather than demoted.
  他会被平级调动而不是降级。
• He added that Mr Yung's daughter Frances, listed as director, group finance in the company's annual report, had been demoted and her pay cut.
  他补充称，荣智健的女儿荣明方（Frances）也已被降职和减薪。在公司年报中，荣明方被列为集团财务部董事。
• There followed a gap of several decades in which central banks were demoted.
  此后出现了一个长达数十年的间隙期，央行在此期间地位下降。
• If an evaluation is vague and the employee is dismissed or demoted, problems may occur.
  如果评估不够清楚而员工被解雇或降职，问题会出现。
• But they were caught anyway and demoted to manual labor at a power plant.
  不过他们还是被抓到了，并被降职到一家发电站从事体力劳动。
• For being absent without leave, the corporal was demoted to private.
  因擅离岗位，这处下士被降为了列兵。
• Before the long march, because of his opposition to dogmatism in the military command, he was wrongly dismissed from the post of chief of the general staff and demoted to chief of staff of the Fifth Army Group of the Chinese workers'and Peasants'Red army.
  长征开始前，他因反对军事指挥上的教条主义，被错误地撤销了总参谋长的职务，到五军团去当参谋长。