usurped

英 [juːˈzɜːpt]

美 [juːˈzɜːrpt]

v.  篡夺; 侵权
usurp的过去分词和过去式

过去式：usurped　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 夺取；篡夺；侵占
  If you say that someoneusurpsa job, role, title, or position, they take it from someone when they have no right to do this.
  1. Did she usurp his place in his mother's heart?...
     她取代了他在他母亲心目中的地位吗？
  2. The Congress wants to reverse the reforms and usurp the power of the presidency.
     议会企图颠覆改革，夺取总统权力。

双语例句

• Wealth is a power usurped by the few, to compel the many to labour for their benefit.
  财富是少数人占有的，为了自身利益，驱使多数人劳动的力量。
•   When I started writing about Whitehall for the FT my column was full of stories about how civil servants had been sidelined under Labour, their role as advisers usurped by a few prime ministerial cronies.
  当我开始为英国《金融时报》撰写有关白厅的报道时，我的专栏里满是有关工党执政时期公务员是如何受到冷落的报道，他们作为顾问的角色被一小撮首相的密友们所篡夺。
• In other cities, the open spaces have been usurped by commerce-tent markets which fill every inch town square.
  在其它城市，空地被挪为商用，帐篷式的市场填满了城镇广场的每个角落。
• The powers of local councils are being usurped by central government.
  地方市政会的权力被中央政府攫取了。
• Usurped by motorcars like beetles black enveloped in a swirl of yellow dust;
  只有甲虫样的汽车卷起一片黄尘；
• Our government was usurped by the central bankers and the power elite in1913 with the establishment of the federal reserve.
  我们政府在1913年成立美联储的时候就被中央银行和权力精英侵占了。
• My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon.
  被我篡夺王位的兄弟，我将会把他杀了，而不是囚禁在地牢中某个被遗忘的角。
• IV usurped the throne of england.
  亨利四世篡夺了英国的王位。
• Then Kellogg usurped Tuck, after Grant visited the school in Evanston, Ill., and had his interview.
  然后，格兰特前往伊利诺伊州埃文斯顿，对凯洛格商学院进行了考察，并参加了该学院的面试，这一次，凯洛格夺走了塔克商学院在格兰特心中的位置。
• US President Barack Obama proclaimed America had usurped China as the world's No 1 investment destination, a bold statement that left some economists scratching their heads.
  美国总统奥巴马声称美国已经取代中国成为世界首选投资目的地，这一大胆言论让一些经济学家莫名其妙。