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

• He had usurped powers that properly belonged to parliament.
  他僭越了实际上属于议会的权力。
• Her day was divided between us; no amusement usurped a minute: she neglected her meals, her studies, and her play; and she was the fondest nurse that ever watched.
  她一天的时间全分给我们两个人了；没有一分钟是玩掉的：吃饭、读书和游戏她都不放在心上，真是位难得的、讨人喜的看护。
• I dared hardly lift my eyes from the page before me, that melancholy scene so instantly usurped its place.
  我的眼睛刚刚敢从我面前的书页上抬起来，用幅忧郁的景象立刻侵占了书本上的位置。
•   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。
• 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。
• Sony is struggling to reinvent itself after being usurped in TVs and digital music players.
  索尼公司在失去电视机以及电子音乐播放器老大位置之后，一直努力开发新的产品。
• But the holdouts are betting that their orthodoxy could win them customers who are outraged that the family holiday is being usurped by consumerism.
  但是抵制者们认为，坚持正统将使它们赢得那些因家庭假日被消费主义侵袭而义愤填膺的顾客。
• The technology sector continues to hog the limelight, but Google, the top-ranking brand four years running, has been usurped by Apple.
  科技行业依然风头最健，但曾连续四年位居榜首的谷歌（Google）已经被苹果超过。
• Witnesses said that relations between the two cats have been strained since Freya usurped Larry from his role of prowling the corridors of power.
  目击者说，自从弗莱娅夺取了拉里在首相府台阶上巡逻的职务后，两只猫的关系就变得越来越紧张。
• 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。