usurp

英 [juːˈzɜːp]

美 [juːˈzɜːrp]

v.  篡夺; 侵权

过去分词：usurped　现在分词：usurping　过去式：usurped　第三人称单数：usurps　

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Collins.1 / BNC.14267 / COCA.15488

牛津词典

verb

• 篡夺；侵权
  to take sb's position and/or power without having the right to do this

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。

英英释义

verb

• seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
  1. He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town
  2. he usurped my rights
  3. She seized control of the throne after her husband died
  Synonym:assumeseizetake overarrogate
• take the place of
  1. gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke

双语例句

• Indra worried that this powerful sage would one day want to usurp the position of king of heaven.
  他担心这位强有力的圣哲有一天会篡夺天帝的位置。
• Their greatest goal is to usurp power from the fangs.
  他们的最好目标是篡夺。
• Breast cancer cells usurp this process for invasion and metastasis.
  乳腺癌细胞为了浸润和转移而可破坏这个过程。
• I did not usurp power," he wrote," but Idid greatly broaden the use of executive power.
  他写道：我不会越权，但我应该在我的权力范围内为最大程度地利用它。
• Many career men and the big powers around your country are ready to usurp your position at any time. Therefore, you feel unsafe.
  许多野心家、临近的强国等，都无时无刻不在想着夺取您的位子，您当然不会有安全感了！
• At present it takes the form of a struggle between Chiang Kai-shek who is trying to usurp the fruits of victory of the War of Resistance and ourselves who oppose his usurpation.
  目前这个斗争表现为蒋介石要篡夺抗战胜利果实和我们反对他的篡夺的斗争。
• Concurrently, her father and husband covertly conspired to usurp her throne.
  而与此同时，胡安娜的父亲与丈夫私底下共谋篡夺她的皇位。
• He's come to usurp your place here, hasn't he?
  他是来夺你的位置对不对？
• Critics say such councils usurp the power of elected municipal governments.
  批评家表示，这种委员会侵犯了选举产生的市政府的权力。
• That is, if Goering, on learning of the Fuehrer's death, did not try to usurp the throne.
  这是说，如果戈林在得悉元首去世的消息后不设法篡位的话。