demoted

英 [ˌdiːˈməʊtɪd]

美 [ˌdiːˈmoʊtɪd]

v.  使降级，使降职，使降低地位(常作为惩罚)
demote的过去分词和过去式

过去式：demoted　过去分词：demoted　

COCA.40323

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使降级;使降职;使降低地位
  If someonedemotesyou, they give you a lower rank or a less important position than you already have, often as a punishment.
  1. It's very difficult to demote somebody who has been standing in during maternity leave...
     要将一个在别人休产假期间顶替上来的人再降职是非常困难的。
  2. If they prove ineffective they should be demoted or asked to retire.
     如果事实证明他们已无力胜任，应该将他们降级或让他们退休。
• VERB 使(球队等)降级
  If a team in a sports leagueis demoted, that team has to compete in the next competition in a lower division, because it was one of the least successful teams in the higher division.
  1. The club was demoted at the end of last season.
     上个赛季末该俱乐部被降级了。

双语例句

• He would be moved sideways, rather than demoted.
  他会被平级调动而不是降级。
• AKB48's management agency demoted her to trainee level starting on Friday, according to the band's official blog.
  AKB48管理机构周五开始降级她的学员水平，根据该乐队的官方博客。
• Of course, global rivals demoted by the arrival of the Chinese have little to gripe about.
  当然，全球竞争对手的市值排名尽管被中国上市银行超越，也没有什么可抱怨的。
• The striker wanted to leave the demoted giants during the summer, but was not allowed to move despite being the target of real madrid, Liverpool and French champions lyon.
  这名射手想在夏天离开这家豪门球会，但是却没有被允许，尽管皇家马戏团，利物浦，法国冠军里昂对他有兴趣。
• Meanwhile, English was "demoted" to everyday, unprestigious uses.
  同时，英语被“贬低”到了下里巴人的地位。
• He was demoted to a branch office.
  他被降级到分店去了。
• In order to run the REFRESH command on a repository, it must first be demoted to a non-repository.
  为了在储存库上运行REFRESH命令，首先需要将它降级为非储存库。
• Before the long march, because of his opposition to dogmatism in the military command, he was wrongly dismissed from the post of chief of the general staff and demoted to chief of staff of the Fifth Army Group of the Chinese workers'and Peasants'Red army.
  长征开始前，他因反对军事指挥上的教条主义，被错误地撤销了总参谋长的职务，到五军团去当参谋长。
• If an evaluation is vague and the employee is dismissed or demoted, problems may occur.
  如果评估不够清楚而员工被解雇或降职，问题会出现。
• He might have to resign or he might be demoted, but either way, his career is effectively over.
  他也许不得不辞职或被降级，但不管怎样，他的事业实际上结束了。