demoting v. 使降级;使降职(demote 的现在分词)
- Promoting can be done Up To Your Own Rank and Demoting can be done on Any Member Below Your Rank.
促进最多可以做您自己的排名和降级可以在任何成员低于你的等级进行。 - The reason of Yuan Zhen's demoting to Jiangling, directly affected his mentality change and his composition of poems.
元稹被贬江陵的原因,直接影响到他在江陵后的心态转变,以及他之后的诗歌创作。
Demote \De*mote"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Demoted}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Demoting}.] [Pref. de- + mote, as in promote; cf. L.
demovere to remove.]
To reduce to a lower grade or rank, as in the military, one's
employment, or in school; to assign to a lower position.
Syn: bump, relegate, kick downstairs, break one's rank.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC WordNet 1.5]