supplant UK [sə'plɑ:nt] US [-'plænt] slightly formal verb transitive ■to replace 取代,代替•In most offices, the typewriter has now been supplanted by the computer.在大多数办公室中,打字机现在都已经被电脑取代了。 •Small children can often feel supplanted in their parents' affections (= that their parents no longer like them as much) when a new brother or sister is born.当弟弟或妹妹出生后,小孩子常常会觉得自己在父母心中的地位被取代了。 |