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单词 relegate
释义
relegate
verb[T]
uk
/ˈrel.ɪ.ɡeɪt/us
/ˈrel.ə.ɡeɪt/
to put someone or something into aloweror lessimportantrankorposition:
贬职；使降级；降低…的地位
Sheresignedwhen she was relegatedtoadeskjob.因被降职做文书，她就辞了职。
Thestorywas relegatedtothemiddlepagesof thepaper.这篇报道从重要版面撤下，刊登在中间的版面上。
UK
If afootballteamis relegated, it ismoveddown to alowerdivision:
使（足球队）降级
If Southamptonloseagain they may be relegatedfromthe PremierLeaguetothe First Division.如果南安普敦队再输掉比赛的话，就要从英超降级到英甲了。
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(Definition ofrelegatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

relegate| American Dictionary

relegate
verb[T]
fml
us
/ˈrel·ɪˌɡeɪt/
to put something or someone into aloweror lessimportantrankorposition:
In the past whenAfrican-Americanmenworkedassailorsaboardships, they were often relegated tojobsascooksandstewards.
(Definition ofrelegatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrelegate

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In this part, computational methods are relegated to the background, and the focus is on the economics.
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Nationalism relegates religion to a secondary, and even inessential, principle of a stable and legitimate political order and thus challenges traditionalist conservatism.
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In this economic framework, which is unfamiliar to the clinician, the level of current disability is relegated to a subsidiary position.
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One result was that certain elitist and patriarchal practices found in rural society were replicated in church settings, relegating women to subservient and passive roles.
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The wider impacts of experiencing a language and communication problem have often been relegated to the educational domains.
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In this scheme, dissolution was relegated to the status of an instrumental first step that facilitates combinative activity.
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Women were relegated to a subordinate position in society.
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Spatially peripheralizing the burial site, relegating the fallen revolutionaries to the urban edge, reduced its significance in the city's symbolic landscape.
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At the same time, public meeting places, notably the zango, were devalued and relegated to the interior of individual houses.
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Therefore, societies with non-inscribed representations of the past had been relegated to 'historyless' societies.
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While military procurements were important, diplomatic niceties such as recognition were relegated to a lesser sphere.
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We have not calculated this correction and have relegated the effect of large viscosity ratios to the numerical investigation that is reported in 995-6.
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Here again psychologists can work together with biologists to understand behavior that might otherwise be relegated to the category of irrational biases.
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In other words, such behavior is obnoxious, subject to public criticism, and relegated to physicians who provide a "diagnosis" for it.
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Despite all their efforts, they were relegated to the wings and to small bit parts.
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