Usurp

(verb.) take the place of; 'gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke'.

艾伯纳录入

• I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The feudal state was one in which, it has been said, private law had usurped the place of public law. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These ideas made him inflexible in his rule, and violent in his hate of any who presumed to share with him his usurped empire. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The heir, whose rights he had usurped, was the heir who would now have the estate. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Human being there was none to reply; and the inclemency of the night had driven the wandering animals to the habitations they had usurped. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He was no sooner within than the pad of the little window in the back of the chariot disappeared, and his eye usurped its place. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• They now filled the air with Long life to Richard with the Lion's Heart, and down with the usurping Templars! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• His brother sits in the seat, and usurps the patrimony, of a better race, the race of Ulfgar of Middleham; but what Norman lord doth not the same? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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