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新GRE常考察词汇supplant

发布时间：2016-03-01 编辑：查字典英语网小编

　　supplant: to take the place of

　　1) to take the place of, especially by force, through treachery, or through superiority

　　2) to take the place of; supersede

　　1. The rebels overthrew the government, only to supplant one tyranny with another.

　　2. Can you supplant my position if I cannot play?

　　3. The ancestry of the piano can be traced to the early keyboard instruments of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the spinet, the dulcimer, and the virginal. In the seventeenth century the organ, the clavichord, and the harpsichord became the chief instruments of the keyboard group, a supremacy they maintained until the piano supplanted them at the end of the eighteenth century.

　　4. People who expect underground mass transit systems to gradually supplant out reliance on the automobile are not being realistic.

　　相近词汇：overthrow, succeed, supersede, undermine, uproot, displace, usurp

　　新gre考试已经陆陆续续被很多考生体验过，根据ets的考察方向及考生的反应，新gre对单词的考察并没有降低反而还有所提高，因此备考新gre考试词汇仍是迫在眉睫的问题，俗话说：万丈高楼平地起只有精确熟练的掌握了词汇，才可能在征服新gre考试的道路上立于不败之地。

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