relegate

英 ['relɪɡeɪt] 美 ['relɪɡeɪt]

• v. 使降级；流放；移交；委任

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 使降级，使降职

   put into a lower place;demote

英英释义

Verb:

1. refer to another person for decision or judgment;

   "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"
   

2. assign to a lower position; reduce in rank;

   "She was demoted because she always speaks up"
   "He was broken down to Sergeant"
   

3. expel, as if by official decree;

   "he was banished from his own country"
   

4. assign to a class or kind;

   "How should algae be classified?"
   "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"
   

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+ ～+n./pron.

1. Their football team was relegated.
   他们的足球队被降级了。

经典引文

• The fortress to which Herod relegated his wife.

  出自： H. B. Tristram

词汇搭配

• relegate to the background 推到幕后,置于次要的...

词义辨析

v. (动词)

relegate, commit, confide, consign, entrust

• 这组词都有“委托”的意思。其区别是：
• commit泛指委托给别人负责,意思最广泛; entrust表示“委托,托管”,强调对别人的信任; confide表示“托付,信赖”,强调对别人依赖和放心; consign表示“委托,交付”,指比较正式的委托; relegate表示“把…委托给”,侧重抛弃或摆脱。

近反义词

【近义词】

• demote 降级
• downgrade 使降低
• transfer 转移
• consign 交付
• refer 把 ... 提交
• lower 低的
• commission 佣金
• commit 犯罪
• banish 驱逐
• submit 使服从
• bump 碰撞
• bar 酒吧
• pass on 传递
• classify 分类
• break 打碎

派生词

v.(动词)

• relegation n. 降级，降职