relegate

verb

1. 使贬职；使降级；降低…的地位
   to give sb a lower or less important position, rank, etc. than before
   1. She was then relegated to the role of assistant.
      随后她被降级做助手了。
   2. He relegated the incident to the back of his mind.
      他将这个事件抛到了脑后。
2. 使（运动队，尤指足球队）降级；使降组
   to move a sports team, especially a football ( soccer ) team, to a lower position within an official league

1. VERB 贬黜;把…降级;把…降格
   If you relegate someone or something to a less important position, you give them this position.
   1. Might it not be better to relegate the King to a purely ceremonial function?...
      让国王变成纯粹发挥典礼仪式上象征作用的元首会不会更好？
   2. Other newspapers relegated the item to the middle pages.
      其他的报纸把这条消息降格报道，放到了中间版面。
2. VERB 使(球队)降级
   If a sports team that competes in a league is relegated, it has to compete in a lower division in the next competition, because it was one of the least successful teams in the higher division.
   1. If Leigh lose, they'll be relegated.
      如果利失球，他们将会降级。
   2. ...a team about to be relegated to the second division.
      即将被降到乙级的球队。

1. Might it not be better to relegate the King to a purely ceremonial function?
   让国王变成纯粹发挥典礼仪式上象征作用的元首会不会更好？
2. Other newspapers relegated the item to the middle pages.
   其他的报纸把这条消息降格报道，放到了中间版面。
3. If Leigh lose, they'll be relegated.
   如果利失球，他们将会降级。
4. Netflix ( NFlx) today declared war on DVDs, pledging to relegate them to the same dustbin that is occupied by VHS and Betamax tapes.
   Netflix今天宣布对DVD开战，誓将DVD如同VHS录像带和Betamax录像带一样扫进垃圾箱。
5. As the chief proponent both of Linux and of the value of IT services, big blue would like nothing better than to change the rules of the game and relegate Microsoft to being just another software company.
   作为Linux和IT服务价值的最大支持者，IBM肯定想修改游戏规则，打破微软在软件界的统治地位。
6. You might relegate onions to the list of old-fashioned kitchen standbys, as you can slice and dice them into everything from home fries and soups to omelets and casseroles.
   你大概会把洋葱归为老式餐点佐料，因为什么菜都可以加点洋葱切片，你可以炸洋葱圈，炖洋葱汤，煎洋葱烩蛋，还能把它扔到砂锅里去煮一煮。
7. And it may relegate the idea of establishing a lifelong career to a distant memory.
   而且它也许让人们忘记建立一个毕生的事业是一个什么样的概念。
8. That you relegate power to the war revolutionary committee.
   你们把政权转交给革命军事委员会。
9. We can no longer relegate Afghanistan to the bottom of our priority list.
   我们再也不能把阿富汗推到我们首要日程表的底下。
10. Through the image of these studies can be seen that the word relegate people in the inner world and the period of the ideal personality.
    通过对这几个意象的研究，可以了解到词人身处贬谪时期的内心世界和人格理想。
11. Committee of Experts on Rules of Procedure of the Security Council relegate a question to a committec
    安全理事会议事规则问题专家委员会把问题委托委员会处理
12. Barack Obama appears similarly determined to relegate mistrust as the two sides engage in their inaugural "strategic and economic dialogue" in Washington.
    在美中在华盛顿投入首轮“战略与经济对话”之际，巴拉克奥巴马（barackobama）似乎同样决心搁置不信任态度。
13. A neglect of appropriate gender distinctions and segregation between male and female would relegate the human order to the level of an animal society.
    如果不顾性别差异，无视男女大防，人类社会就会降至动物群落的水平。
14. Archives are tools of power and while they always seem to start in a fairly benign fashion, they inevitable relegate everything outside the archive to the status of unimportant or irrelevant.
    档案是权利的工具，虽然它们似乎总是在一开始相当温和的方式开始，他们必然贬谪外面不重要的档案或不相关的一切的地位。
15. Liverpool won2-0 at bottom club Albion yesterday to relegate Tony Mowbray's side.
    昨天，利物浦2-0战胜了垫底的西布朗，使得该球队注定降级。
16. Relegate old files to the storeroom.
    把旧文件存入储藏室。
17. Relegate a question to a committec
    把问题委托委员会处理
18. It is therefore impossible to relegate the art of expression to the few fields of music and dancing and painting.
    所以，要把表现的艺术归于音乐、舞蹈、和绘画这几方面是不可能的。
19. But we cannot relegate computer games to the cesspit of pop culture solely on the evidence of the current crop of games.
    可是，咱们不能由于这个行业现有的水平，而直接把电脑游戏一脚踹进流行文化的泥潭里。
20. The decision to "relegate" Mono from production to sample status has been based on multiple factors.
    作出将Mono从产品“降级”为样例地位的决定源于多个因素。
21. Such devices may relegate Moore's Law to secondary status.
    这类器材甚至可能贬低摩尔定律的地位。
22. All above problems relegate to the ecological problem centering around on water resources, which is an ill domino effect leading by water resources gross shortage and unbalanced distributing to water resources.
    所有这些问题都是以水资源为核心要素的生态问题，是由于水资源总量不足而且分配不均衡所导致的负面效应。
23. When these agglomerations of metal and biomass slough they relegate carbon, microbes, and metals to the sediments.
    当这些金属聚合物和生物体脱落时，它们将碳微生物和金属带入污泥中。
24. The thesis takes a Factory as an example, by means of Linear Programming, and analyzes the production arrangement on condition that labour force can relegate or not, then proves that the flexibility in labour force distribution can increase profit of enterprise markedly.
    本文以一个工厂为例，以线性规划法为手段，对比分析了在劳动力可转移和不可转移两种条件下的生产安排，证明了劳动力分配的灵活性能显著提高企业利润。
25. Liu Zongyuan was still encountered relegate life with dedication to the ideals and reality, short self-regulation through landscape gardening was not enable him to go beyond the obstacles.
    柳宗元遭遇贬谪后则仍然执着于人生理想、执着于现实，寄情于山水的短暂自我调节始终没有使他超越感伤的心理障碍。
26. Due to the public nature of food crisis, it can be relegate to social public crisis.
    粮食危机具有公共性，当然是社会公共危机。
27. Linguistic connotations sometimes deny women and relegate women to a subordinate or inferior position; however, in some cases, they also contain some elements that have adverse effects on men.
    语言的内涵有时否定女性并把她们置于从属和较低的地位，然而，很多情况下，它也包含有对男性的不利因素。
28. Jiang Yan expresses the pathos with each kind of theme, manifests the pathos with the words and expressions, with the scenery boundary reappearance pathos, causes to relegate the time the work to have the intense subjective lyricism.
    江淹用各类题材抒发悲情，用语言体现悲情，用景境再现悲情，使贬谪时期的作品具有强烈的主观抒情性。
29. Liu Yuxi is a famous writer, philosopher and the statesman in the middle stages of the Tang Dynasty. He repeatedly suffered relegate in his life, But always in high spirit.
    刘禹锡是中唐时期著名的文学家、哲学家和政治家，他一生屡遭贬谪，但始终斗志不息。

verb

1. assign to a class or kind
   1. How should algae be classified?
   2. People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms

   Synonym:    classify

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

   Synonym:    demotebumpbreakkick downstairs

3. expel, as if by official decree
   1. he was banished from his own country

   Synonym:    banishbar

4. refer to another person for decision or judgment
   1. She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues

   Synonym:    pass onsubmit