1.篡夺,侵占,盗用;强夺
2.〈罕〉篡夺,篡位;侵占,侵犯;侵害 (up; upon)
1.to take a job or position that belongs to someone else without having the right to do this
1.Both sides agree that the private property of any inpidual would not be seized or usurped, except permitted by the laws.
双方同意任何私人的财产除非法律允许都不能被没收或侵占。
2.at a time when few true geisha were able to work the counterfeit geisha usurped the meaning of the word in the eyes of many foreigners.
而此时没有真正的艺妓服务，假冒的艺妓玷污了在许多外国人眼中的这个词的含义。
3.ON LOVE: One mom writes that the men in her daughters' lives could feel "powerless, " and that "their role as provider has been usurped. "
关于爱情：一位母亲写到，她女儿人生中的男人会感到非常无力，男人们作为供给者的角色被有钱的女人篡夺了。
4.I dared hardly lift my eyes from the page before me, that melancholy scene so instantly usurped its place.
我的眼睛刚刚敢从我面前的书页上抬起来，用幅忧郁的景象立刻侵占了书本上的位置。
5.Madrid's ARCO fair used to be the most important fair for South and Latin American galleries but it has been usurped by Miami.
马德里的ARCO艺术展曾经是南美和拉丁美洲画廊最重要的博览会，但是现在已经被迈阿密取代。
6.The authority to declare war is given to Congress, not the president, but that authority has been steadily usurped ever since World War II.
宣战的权力是属于议会而非属于总统的，然而，这个权力从二战时起已逐步被篡夺。
7.But Liguria's position will be usurped over the next two decades by formerly Communist regions of Germany.
但未来20年，它的地位将被德国原来的共产主义地区抢占。
8.The expression 'social engineering'has been usurped by the Utopianist without a shadow of light.
“社会工程”这个词已被乌托邦主义者毫无理由地盗用了。
9.My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not kept anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon.
被我篡夺王位的兄弟，我将会把他杀了，而不是囚禁在地牢中某个被遗忘的角落。
10.Considered until recently to be the target of selection and the focus of evolution, the inpidual has been usurped by the gene.
直到最近才考虑成为选择的目标和演化的焦点，基因已经篡夺个人。