undermining
英 [ˌʌndəˈmaɪnɪŋ]
美 [ˌʌndərˈmaɪnɪŋ]
v. 逐渐削弱(信心、权威等); 使逐步减少效力; 从根基处破坏; 挖…的墙脚
undermine的现在分词
现在分词:undermining 复数:underminings
BNC.33204 / COCA.24668
柯林斯词典
- VERB (常指逐渐或反复)削弱,损害(情感、体制等)
If youunderminesomething such as a feeling or a system, you make it less strong or less secure than it was before, often by a gradual process or by repeated efforts.- Offering advice on each and every problem will undermine her feeling of being adult...
对每个问题都给出建议会令她觉得自己不像个成年人。 - Western intelligence agencies are accused of trying to undermine the government.
西方情报机构被指责企图动摇该政府的统治。
- Offering advice on each and every problem will undermine her feeling of being adult...
- VERB (常指间接地)削弱,损害,动摇(某人的地位或权威)
If youunderminesomeone orunderminetheir position or authority, you make their authority or position less secure, often by indirect methods.- She undermined him and destroyed his confidence in his own talent...
她暗中打击他,让他对自己的才华信心全无。 - The conversations were designed to undermine her authority so she felt that she could no longer work for the company.
这些谈话有意削弱她的威信,这样她会觉得自己在公司干不下去。
- She undermined him and destroyed his confidence in his own talent...
- VERB 破坏,损害(某人的努力或成功的机会)
If youunderminesomeone's efforts orunderminetheir chances of achieving something, you behave in a way that makes them less likely to succeed.- The continued fighting threatens to undermine efforts to negotiate an agreement...
持续的战斗会破坏希望通过谈判来达成协议的努力。 - I don't want to do something that would undermine the chances of success.
我不想做会影响成功机会的事情。
- The continued fighting threatens to undermine efforts to negotiate an agreement...
双语例句
- We will resolutely oppose any activity aimed at splitting the motherland or undermining ethnic solidarity.
坚决反对分裂祖国和破坏民族团结的行为。 - After all, he's a department head, and we ought to avoid any suggestion of undermining his authority.
毕竟他是该部门的主任,而我们又不可能建议削减他的职权。 - The banks remain under state control, undermining their independence.
各家银行仍处于政府控制之下,削弱了它们的独立性。 - Telling them they are late could be seen as undermining their position over you.
告诉老板他们迟到了可能被看成你在藐视他们的地位。 - World leaders have an interest in ensuring that these issues are resolved without undermining the open trading system.
确保这些问题在不损害开放贸易体系的前提下得到解决,符合各国领导人的利益。 - Teachers have launched a devastating attack on, accusing many of failing in their responsibilities and undermining.
教师们对家长们发起了一场猛烈的抨击,指责他们没有尽到自身的责任并且破坏了学校教育。 - House prices are now dropping in most large cities, further undermining consumer confidence.
如今,多数大城市的房价都在下跌,这进一步挫伤了消费者信心。 - His creative intelligence was used into the work of destruction and undermining philosophy.
他的创造性天才却被用于从事破坏和摧毁哲学的工作。 - But if you have these responses when you are grown up, the past is undermining the present.
但是,如果当你已经成年,会做出这些响应,那么过去正在影响到了现在。 - It risks undermining gains made in agriculture, health, and infrastructure.
它有可能消弱在农业、健康和基础设施方面取得的收益。