demote

1 Yeltsin was an “outlaw,” he was fired, demoted, he was, let me say, in some kind of opposition to the political mainstream.

2 He was demoted from sergeant to corporal.

他由中士降到下士。

3 The word signals just how tainted the established term, kinetic art, now demoted to subtitle status, has long been.

4 Glenn Close stars as Bernie, an aging maiden aunt who in quick succession is demoted from her job as a cashier and killed in her living room by an unseen intruder.

5 Born in Oita on the island of Kyushu in 1931, Mr. Isozaki came of age in a postwar Japan that was “in complete ruins,” with an emperor demoted and social customs in flux.

6 Jason is a buffoon who's been laid off from his job, while his truculent mate Shane is a social worker demoted after the death of a child.

7 She demoted her husband to a fraternal role—the shiftless “bad boy” in chronic need of scolding and spanking.

8 The Earth was demoted to just one of the planets, third from the Sun, moving in a perfect circular orbit.

9 The best analogy outside spelling might be the demoting of Pluto from its status as a planet.

10 His films include a take on Goethe’s “Faust” and “The Last Laugh,” an international hit that chronicled the trials of a hotel worker who is demoted because of his age.

11 And after being sent down once in early May, he was demoted again near the end of June.

12 On Tuesday’s show, Liv and Detective Babineaux investigate the murder of a research scientist who had recently been demoted and are shocked when they discover her place of employment.

13 But to demote these strange, beautiful pictures to mere evidence of a desire to be not of this earth is to strip them of their power as works of art.

14 Many others from public-facing institutions and businesses have been sanctioned, demoted, suspended or fired for impolitic statements online in recent days.

15 A breakup in 2018 can often be coded as a reshuffling of priorities, as someone is demoted from a central role into a supporting player.

16 “You can ditch us. Cal’s getting demoted back to stage manager.”

17 But the use of these devices feels wrong if the speaker is in no danger other than the prospect of being demoted in the next cabinet reshuffle.

18 After he presented an ornate shoeshine stand as sculpture, his board of directors demoted him to curator.

19 I demoted the project in my regard, and encouraged him to work on “Women on the Moon” instead.

20 Hitler didn’t have them executed or even demoted.

1 使降职

downgrade relegate bust

2 使降级

un- bust downgrade de-escalate cheapen relegate downrate reduce degrade disrate

3 降级

reduction degradation demotion break bust degrade downgrade relegation slip de-escalate relegate reduce stoop lose stripes cheapen downrate go down drop disrate wind-down bump rif

4 降低…的阶级

degrade declass

5 降职

downgrade relegate bust bump degradation deposition rif

6 降等

demotion degrade degradation