| 释义 |
down-grade, v.
[f. the n.]
trans. To lower in grade, rank, status, estimation, or the like. So down-grading vbl. n.
1930Sunday Times 12 Oct. 18/4 No further down-grading of London schools should take place until the basic principles of grading have been considered. 1944Labor Herald (San Francisco) 8 Dec. 6 Aircraft union join to fight downgrading pay cut drive. 1953A. Baron Human Kind 97 There was a medical examination at which he was down-graded. 1955Times 27 Aug. 6/6 The dispute arose from a wartime agreement under which some N.U.R. wagon shop men were upgraded to fitters. Because of the redundancy of 15 fitters, the local branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union claimed that the N.U.R. men should be downgraded once more. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Feb. 89/3 A Pordenone has been downgraded to an Amalteo. 1959G. D. Mitchell Sociology vii. 120 Non-manual employees whose subjective status is working class..have down-graded other non-manual occupations to their own estimation. 1964F. Bowers Bibliogr. & Textual Criticism v. iii. 147 A corresponding down-grading of the Folio must be made. 1969Times 24 Feb. 12/5 A scientific committee..recommended that the manned flight activities should be downgraded because they ‘exaggerated’ one aspect of space activity. |