音标:[.di:'mәut] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
vt. 使降级, 使降职
v. assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
词型变化:过去分词 : demoted ; 过去式 : demoted ; 现在分词 : demoting ; 第三人称单数 : demotes ; 名词复数形式 : demotes
考试类型:[GRE]
词性分布:
动词100%

demote的用法和样例:

例句

用作及物动词(vt.)
  1. He was demoted from sergeant to corporal.他由中士降到下士。
  2. I should demote you from senior minister to elder.我要把你从高级牧师降级为长老。
  3. Why did the mayor demote the official?为什么市长要把这名官员降职?

经典引文

  • He was first elevated to the leadership of the House of Commons and then summarily demoted to make way for Fox.

    出自:John Brooke
【近义词】
【反义词】

核心句型: You don't have to rub it in. I already feel bad enough as it is. 不要再火上浇油了,我已经够难过了。 rub it in直译过来就是:反复摩擦它的里面,这个短语的正确意思是:火上浇油,故意触人痛

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(222) / 评论(0) 分类 轻松日记商务职场篇

今天我们要学的词是acquaintance。 Acquaintance, 的意思是熟人、熟人关系,也就是彼此认识,但算不上朋友的那种人。社交网络Facebook最近宣布要推出一项新功能, You can demote friends to your acquaintanc

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(187) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词荟萃
学英语单词
alarm surveillance
anagrammed
anticlogging agent
antiphonetic
avunculicide
baidaratskaya b.
bar potential measurement
basal sclerite
bearing test
beat group
bielski
big shellbark hickory
biosparite
blind curves
bond floatation market
bound circulation
bufferings
burst in on
carotenoids
Cetate
cold confinement
common-channel interference
danazol
day-writ
derricking motion
dipterocarps
disparator
driveage
dry-laid rubble masonry
elastic packing
endemity
endo-enzyme
enemata
estimation of biological potency
eviota albolineata
exterogestate
FCCP
foliaceous
Frencher
gangsaw
gauge setting
genus pteridiums
give sb. line enough
Gymnelis viridis
haulage rope winding disc
Hering-Breuer reflex
high strength weldable aluminium alloy
hillman
ill humor
induction spot welder
inner quality
investment environment
ion monitor
jaffeite
jeering
Johntown
Landsborough Cr.
laying claim
LC (link circuit)
leukoplakia of larynx
lobatas
make one turn in one's grave
make up a quarrel
Mellerud
melting away
methylacyl
multiple microphone
necessitatives
net book agreement
Ngouri
one's number two
overburden gradient
Pallasovka
paracytheropteron nivalis
passenger engine
phantasmagoricals
polystyrene fiber
pyriboles
rate of self-absorption
residue half life
resistance wire wave staff
Rialto Bridge
ruling OK
safe working
Saurauia napaulensis
sensenbrenner's syndrome
short-staple cottons
siano
sporangium (pl. sporangia)
steinbichler
striated coal
Subcarpathia
subcommand
system of logarithm
T86
telesellings
the departed
umbellulic acid
unformatted logic record
West Indian snowberry
wilhelm von opels