Supplant

(verb.) take the place or move into the position of; 'Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left'; 'the computer has supplanted the slide rule'; 'Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school'.

整理:史黛丝

• Fleeming Jenkins that Gas engines will ultimately supplant the steam. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• One species of charlock has been known to supplant another species; and so in other cases. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I don't want to supplant you in Miss Crawley's good graces. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I hate him for trying to supplant Mr. Franklin! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Most ingenious machines have been devised for picking cotton in the fields, but none have yet reached that stage of perfection sufficient to supplant the human fingers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Other modern inventions in well-making machinery have consisted in innumerable devices to supplant manual labour and to meet new conditions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Mr. Thomson made the objection that it was impracticable, and that it would be impossible to supplant steam. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Another told of the dim flicker of gas supplanted by a steady glare, bright and mellow. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Why have not the more highly developed forms every where supplanted and exterminated the lower? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• This change, beginning about 1860 and running through a period of nearly twenty years, has gradually supplanted the old electro-chemical dualistic theory and established the present system. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The heated air which rises from furnaces is seldom hot enough to warm large buildings well; hence furnace heating is being largely supplanted by hot-water heating. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• No useful contrivances are suddenly or apparently ever entirely supplanted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In time, of course, Mr. Knightley would be forgotten, that is, supplanted; but this could not be expected to happen very early. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Wind and water as motive powers have been supplanted by steam and electricity. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• When these fine roads become the possession of a country light traction engines for passenger traffic will be found largely supplanting the horse and the steam railroad engines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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