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

• 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。
• 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。
• Barbarians first invaded Spain in ad409 but were supplanted by Moors from North Africa ( 711-719), who organized a kingdom known for its learning and splendor.
  野蛮人于公元409首次入侵西班牙，但后来被来自北非的摩尔人取代（711-719年），摩尔人建立了一个博学和辉煌的王国。
• 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。
• This has now supplanted the init process in Ubuntu and Fedora, among others, although vestiges of init remain and the full power of upstart may not be realized for some time yet.
  目前在Ubuntu和Fedora，还有其他系统中已经取代了init进程，尽管依然有init的痕迹，upstart的强大功能在一段时间内可能还没有被意识到。
• Prime Minister was supplanted by his rival.
  首相被他的对手排挤掉了。
• 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。
• Motorola's managers realised they had been supplanted only when they read the headlines.
  摩托罗拉的管理人员在读到报纸头条时才意识到该公司被挤出了市场。
• But today, for the first time in human history, the power and allure of the images have supplanted that of real naked women.
  可如今，人类历史首次依赖，画面的力量和吸引已经取代了真正裸体女性。
• 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。