demote

verb

1. 使降级，使降职，使降低地位（常作为惩罚）
   to move sb to a lower position or rank, often as a punishment

1. VERB 使降级;使降职;使降低地位
   If someone demotes you, 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。
2. VERB 使(球队等)降级
   If a team in a sports league is 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。

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。
3. The club was demoted at the end of last season.
   上个赛季末该俱乐部被降级了。
4. For example, a trigger can send you e-mail whenever new content is posted or can demote a front-page story if the story is edited.
   例如，只要发布新内容，触发器就会向您发送电子邮件，或者如果事例被编辑，就会降级头版事例。
5. Then, take a deep breath and, since this is someone who could probably fire or demote you if he wanted to, move on to Step Five: Thank him for giving you another chance.
   然后，做一下深呼吸，因为你面对的是一位只要他愿意，就可以你解雇或降职的上司，所以要继续第五个步骤：感谢您又给了我一次机会。
6. Demote: This allows the guild leader to demote members within the guild to lower ranks.
   降级：这个功能允许会长将会员降级到低级阶层。
7. The President also has the statutory power to designate one of the commissioners of an independent agency to serve as chairman, and to "demote" the chairman back to the rank of commissioner without cause.
   总统还享有法定权力任命委员之一为独立机关的主席，并可无原因的将该主席降级为委员。
8. Participation in the Plan does not impair or limit the Company's right to transfer, promote, or demote, or terminate the employment of any Participant at any time.
   参与本计划不会削弱或限制公司随时调动、提升参与者或使之降职，或终止与任何参与者的雇佣关系的权利。
9. Cannot demote this field, table, or query.
   无法对该字段、表或查询进行降级。
10. Demote all parent grouping sections then retry the promote.
    请先将所有父分组节降级，然后重试升级。
11. The goalkeeper opted to remain with the giants after demotion last summer, but he has hinted that he may be on the move at the end of this campaign. Demote: This allows the guild leader to demote members within the guild to lower ranks.
    这名门将在去年这只豪门球队降级后毅然决定留下，但表示可能在今年夏天转投其他球队。降级：这个功能允许会长将会员降级到低级阶层。
12. To demote a field, select the field and then click Demote on the toolbar.
    若要降级字段，请选择字段，再单击工具栏上的降级。
13. In the same time, this phenomenon reflected the Song officials fearing of demote and their reluctance to leave the government posts, sentimentally attached to the.
    望京现象也反映了宋人对贬谪的惧怕，对京职的留恋，对中原文化的眷恋和对落后地区的畏惧与鄙。
14. It also provides a Darwinian effect for feature prioritization where users self-promote or demote suggested features.
    它对功能的优先级还有达尔文效应，用户可以自行提高或降低功能的优先级。
15. 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。
16. An employer who has lost confidence in the ability of an employee may demote him.
    雇佣人对被雇佣人之能力失去信心时得予以降职。
17. Philosophy as the self-consciousness of human being in a theoretic form, is always holding it as its pursuing goal and theoretic undertaking to promote greatness and demote paltriness.
    哲学作为理论形态的人类自我意识，它一向是以阐扬崇高和贬抑渺小作为自已的追求目标和理论使命。
18. From this point of view, we must try our best to utilize positive factor and modern combination governed by law among family's factor, not demote family composition and family's culture in the family firm simply.
    从这个角度看，我们得尽量积极利用家族因素中的积极因素和现代法治的结合点，而不是一味贬斥家族企业中的家族成分和家族文化。
19. But for a long time, Scholar& Beauty Romance has demote and treat coldly by academia all the time, the novel poesy of the gifted scholar and beautiful woman has got extremely inequitable appraisal too.
    但长期以来，才子佳人小说一直受到学术界的贬斥冷落，才子佳人小说诗词也得到了极不公正的评价。
20. In the electrochemical analysis and experiment of coating material, it demote Zn and Al, which provide cathodic protection has good anti corrosion to sea water.
    通过对涂层材料的电化学分析及试验结果表明，提供阴极保护的Zn、Al涂层有优良的耐海水腐蚀性能。
21. Trust propagation based anti-spamming algorithms are robust to spammers 'attack and they can demote the spam universally.
    基于信任传播的反作弊算法对作弊者的攻击具有较高的鲁棒性，能广泛的抵抗作弊行为。
22. These enlightened thinkers demote and animadvert on the Chinese nationality usually from their own benefit, but they indeed open out the inveterate habit and shortcoming of Chinese.
    虽然，这些启蒙思想家大多出于自身的需要对中国国民性进行无情地贬斥和批判，但是在很大程度上却揭示了中国国民的痼习和缺点，其思想发人深思。

verb

1. assign to a lower position
   1. She was demoted because she always speaks up
   2. He was broken down to Sergeant

   Synonym:    bumprelegatebreakkick downstairs