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

• 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。
• For being absent without leave, the corporal was demoted to private.
  因擅离岗位，这处下士被降为了列兵。
• 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。
• 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。
• For offending the Royal court, he was demoted to a prefect of zhongzhou.
  由于冒犯了朝廷，他被贬为中州知府。
• 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”。
• You would be upset too if your team was stripped of two titles and demoted.
  如果你深爱的球队被剥夺两届冠军又被降级，你也会不好受。
• Pentagon officials said Mr. Page had also been demoted, from sergeant to specialist, before leaving the service, another indication of problems.
  美国国防部官员说，佩奇在退伍前还曾被降级，从中士降到了专业军士，这也表明此人有一系列的问题。
• 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。