dethrone
v[Tn]
(a) remove (a ruler) from the throne; depose 废黜(君主).
(b) (fig 比喻) remove (sb) from a position of authority or influence 使(某人)失去权势; 撵下台; 挤走
a government adviser dethroned by a younger expert 被较年轻的专家挤走的政府顾问.
🗣️ 情景例句
Help! Help! I can't swim!
救命! 救命! 我不会游泳
Early wed, early dead.
早婚早夭。
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.