demotion

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. Under the provision, air force officers and soldiers may face punishment including demotion, degradation or dismissal for drinking alcohol at lunch on working days.
   该规定强调，凡在工作日午餐违规饮酒者，干部及士官给予降职（级）或者降衔（级）直至撤职处分。
2. If he feels you ignore his concerns about his demotion from partner, he may see non-compliance as his only option.
   如果他担心自己作为伴侣的地位降级了，并且觉得你无视他这种感受，他可能会将不服从视为唯一选择。
3. Mr Baxter said he believed a junior member of staff at the Dorset company responsible could be facing demotion after being trusted with the task of sourcing royalty free pictures of each England player to use on the mugs.
   巴克斯特先生说，他认为这名负责搜索英格兰球员免费照片以印在马克杯上的初级员工可能会被降职。
4. The captain chose to stay in Turin even after their demotion to Serie B and insists he has many more games to play for this club.
   队长在球队被降级到乙级联赛后选择留在都灵和坚持他还要为这个俱乐部踢许多比赛。
5. Palladino had been on loan to Livorno last season, but upon their demotion in the Calciopoli scandal, Juve recalled the young talent.
   帕拉迪诺上赛季被租借到利沃诺，但因为电话门事件降级之后，尤文召回了这名天才。
6. He is a key player for us, he is the second one who decided to stay with us after the summer demotion and is the real driving force of the team.
   帕维尔是我们的关键球员，他是这个夏天降级后决定留下和我们一起战斗的又一个球员，这对球队起到真正的推动作用。
7. Hung-chien could only declare for the second time that he had not received the letter, feeling at the same time that his demotion to associate professor was already a blessing from above.
   鸿渐只好第二次声明没收到信，同时觉得降级为副教授已经天恩高厚了。
8. Disciplinary action may include, but is not limited to, reprimands and warnings, probation, suspension, demotion, reassignment, reduction in salary or immediate termination.
   纪律处分包括但不限于申斥和警告处分、留岗查看、停职、降职、调岗、减薪或立即终止雇佣关系等。
9. Miss taft's behavior improved after her demotion.
   降职后，塔夫脱小姐的行为好转了。
10. Seeing Juventus play in Serie B is a disaster and the demotion was terrible.
    看到尤文图斯在乙级踢球是一个灾难，降级是骇人的。
11. The limits of authority for approving the demotion in rank for reserve officers shall be the same as those for approving the conferment of the rank.
    批准预备役军官军衔降级的权限，与批准授予该级预备役军官军衔的权限相同。
12. Caution The administrator must also make sure that replication has occurred since the demotion before manually removing the NTDS Settings object for any server.
    警告：在手动删除任何服务器的“NTDS设置”对象之前，管理员还必须确保在降级之后已进行了复制。
13. Yet he took Juventus back into Serie A despite a nine-point penalty in the wake of their demotion in the Calciopoli scandal.
    他带领因电放门而降级的尤文在被罚9分的情况下返回了意甲。
14. 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。
15. The Virtual Design and Research for self dyadic promotion and demotion seed collecting machine based on UG
    基于UG的自行升降式采种机虚拟设计与研究
16. Your advice make a fuss do not accept a demotion to work part-time.
    不要接受让你做兼职的建议，这是对你降级。
17. Commenting on life in Serie B following demotion, Buffon insists the club's popularity has received a massive boost.
    谈论到与球队一起降入乙级，布冯认为，俱乐部的声望得到了改善。
18. Making recommendations to the school board on the appointment, promotion, demotion and dismissal of teachers;
    向校董会推荐教师的聘任、晋升和解雇等事宜。
19. "Nevertheless this Serie B season has not been a nightmare for me," added the World Cup winner after the outfit's Calciopoli demotion last summer.
    “不过对我而言这个赛季的意乙生活没有恶梦，”去年夏天拿到世界杯冠军后因为“电话门”而降级。
20. "Not only are we playing great football, but we're also winning games," said the Czech midfielder who agreed a step down following their demotion in the Calciopoli scandal.
    “我们不但踢得漂亮，也取得了胜利。”捷克中场表示。在尤文因为假球丑闻降级后，他毅然留下。
21. The demotion means the club will miss out on millions of pounds of lucrative television rights and sponsorship money.
    降级意味着该俱乐部将失去数以百万英镑计的电视转播权和赞助收入。
22. The routine was that Alice made dinner because she got home first ever since her demotion from accountant to glorified messenger.
    按照平常的惯例，Alice来做晚饭，因为自从由会计降职为美其明曰的信差之后，她都是第一个到家的。
23. In his first interview with the international media since his demotion, Mr Kwok also suggested appointing more independent, non-executive directors to the board and empowering them to have a greater say.
    这是他免职以来首次接受国际媒体采访，在采访中郭炳湘还表示，应任命更为独立的非执行董事，加入董事局并赋予他们更大的话语权。
24. You must stop the write operation before starting the demotion.
    必须在降级前停止写入。
25. David Miliband, foreign secretary, would be found another senior post but any move would be seen as a demotion for a man seen last year as a potential leadership challenger to Mr Brown.
    现任外交大臣戴维米利班德（davidmiliband）将会被委以其它要职，但对于一个去年还被视为布朗领袖地位潜在挑战者的人来说，任何变动都会被认为是降职。
26. Allow data type demotion ( e.g. 32 bit integer to 16 bit integer).
    允许数据类型降级（如32位整型降至16位整型）。
27. The Brazilian joined Real Madrid in the summer after the old lady's demotion to Serie b, but recently declared that he was keen on moving back to Italy with his former club.
    巴西人在去年夏天老妇人降落乙级后加盟了皇家马德里，但是最近他宣称希望转会回意大利，回到他的旧东家。
28. However, bynum's inconsistency resulted in a demotion from his starting role for much of the second half of the season.
    然而，当赛季后半段他从首发位置上被赶下来，导致了矛盾。

noun

1. act of lowering in rank or position