单词 | replace |
释义 | re·place 1. < replaced the card in the file > < replaced the king on the throne > 2. < the saw and sawmill rapidly replaced the ax — American Guide Series: Michigan > < the dried wood … has long been replaced by steel and concrete — T.H.Matthews > 3. < necessary to replace all the machinery in the plant > 4. < a broken toy should not be immediately replaced — Bertrand Russell > < promised to replace the money he had stolen > Synonyms: < Doe replacing Roe in the line-up > < nor would I admit that the human actor can be replaced by a marionette — T.S.Eliot > < an old bridge replaced by a new one > displace implies an ousting, dislodging, putting out, discharging, or crowding out, preceding a replacing < prehistoric Siouan tribes have been displaced almost entirely by Indians of Algonquian stock — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < when large-scale commercial farms displaced the old peasant holdings — Oscar Handlin > < since machinery has displaced manual labor — Karl Meyer > < in this realm of science symbols first displace words — T.H.Savory > supplant is now likely to indicate an uprooting and eradication followed by a replacing or displacing by something newer, better, more modern or effective < horse cars supplanted by trolleys > < rock fireplaces supplanted those of sapling and mud construction — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < a valuable means of supplanting editorial guesswork with facts — F.L.Mott > < a secure national government supplanting the provisional one > supersede is rarely without suggestions of replacement by something better or newer < the old-fashioned fishing luggers with their varicolored sails have been superseded by motorboats — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < frame houses soon superseded the original log ones — American Guide Series: North Carolina > < that is the worst of erudition — that the next scholar sucks the few drops of honey that you have accumulated, sets right your blunders, and you are superseded — A.C.Benson > |
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