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。
• He was demoted to the rank of sergeant.
  他的军衔被降到了警士。
• He added that Mr Yung's daughter Frances, listed as director, group finance in the company's annual report, had been demoted and her pay cut.
  他补充称，荣智健的女儿荣明方（Frances）也已被降职和减薪。在公司年报中，荣明方被列为集团财务部董事。
• In2006, the organization chose "plutoed", which means" to be demoted or devalued ".
  2006年的年度词汇为plutoed，意为“被降级或贬值”。
• When you demote a field, all other fields that belong to the group level get demoted as well.
  降级字段时，属于该分组级别的所有其他字段也将降级。
• He was demoted from sergeant to corporal.
  他由中士降到下士。
• 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 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。
• The club was demoted at the end of last season.
  上个赛季末该俱乐部被降级了。