- 1篡奪、篡位（奪取不屬於自己的權力或地位）
To usurp is to take a power, position or job that is not yours to take — by force, by trickery, or just by pushing in. The classic picture is political: a general usurps the throne, an uncle usurps his young nephew's crown. That is where the word lives most naturally, in history and in Shakespeare. But it also works on a smaller scale, and often with a touch of humour: a new colleague usurps your role as the person who fixes the printer, a young singer usurps the older star's place at the top of the charts. Two things are always true when the word fits — the position already belonged to someone else, and the taking was not legitimate. It is formal, and much more common in writing than in speech. Say it 'yoo-ZERP'. Related words: usurper (the person), (the act).
組成From Middle English usurpen, from Old French usurper, from Latin ūsūrpō 'to seize, to take into use'.
同家族的字
- usurperthe person who usurps — the -er ending makes the doer
- usurpationthe act of usurping
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
usurpverb/juˈsɝp/
- 1
To seize and hold or use (powers, an office, a coat of arms, a right or copyright, etc) from another, without right (usually by illegitimate means).
- [S]o he dies, But soon revives, Death over him no power Shall long usurp […]
- […] usurped or took any name or title of honor or dignity. In many cases it happened that persons who had usurped arms without authority, entered their names […]
- 2
To take the place of someone or something else; to supplant.
- But if now / You ſhould (as cruell fathers do) proclame / Your right, and Tyrant like uſurp the glory / Of my peculiar honours, not deriv'd / From ſucceſſary, but purchas'd with my bloud, / Then I muſt ſtand firſt Champion for my ſelfe, / Againſt all interpoſers.
- Jones answered all his questions with much civility, though he never remembered to have seen the petty-fogger before; and though he concluded, from the outward appearance and behaviour of the man, that he usurped a freedom with his betters, to which he was by no means intitled.
- 3
obsoleteTo make use of.
- "[…] especially considering that even Matter it self, in which they tumble and wallow, which they feel with their hands and usurp with all their Senses […]"
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