单词 | displace |
释义 | displace (dɪspleɪs ) Word forms: displaces , displacing , displaced 1. verb If one thing displaces another, it forces the other thing out of its place, position, or role, and then occupies that place, position, or role itself. These factories have displaced tourism as the country's largest source of foreign exchange. [VERB noun] Coal is to be displaced by natural gas and nuclear power. [VERB noun] 2. verb [usually passive] If a person or group of people is displaced, they are forced to moved away from the area where they live. In Europe alone thirty million people were displaced. [be VERB-ed] Most of the civilians displaced by the war will be unable to return to their homes. [VERB-ed] ...the task of resettling refugees and displaced persons. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: force out, turn out, expel, throw out Collocations: displaced by the conflict One third of the country's 5.3m people were displaced by the conflict; more than twothirds live on less than $1 a day. Times, Sunday Times Some 300,000 have been displaced by the conflict. Times, Sunday Times Two million people have been displaced by the conflict. Times, Sunday Times Three of the ten are schools displaced by the conflict and are now looking to return to their original sites after more than ten years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Hundreds of thousands have been displaced by the war and some 40 per cent of the population is on food aid. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Her detective was also displaced by the war to England. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The nine million others displaced by the war are not so lucky. Times, Sunday Times (2014) This inciting environmental protesters and embittering local residents displaced by the project's preparations when their property was condemned. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The residents displaced by redevelopment are routinely undercompensated, and some (notably month-to-month tenants and business owners) are not compensated at all. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All residents displaced by the redevelopment works are offered a new 99-year lease in new flats constructed nearby. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 取代 Japanese: 取って代わる |
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