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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• 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。
• Britain was accused of undermining international efforts to reduce pollution.
  英国被指责破坏国际社会为减少污染所作出的努力。
• Salim Salim says regional conflicts are undermining all progress.
  萨利姆说，地区冲突破坏了所有的进展。
• 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。
• 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。
• For more than a century, americans have debated how far the federal government should go to prevent dominant companies from undermining economic competition.
  一个多世纪以来，美国人一直在争论联邦政府在阻止垄断公司破坏经济竞争方面究竟有多大权限。
• Moral hazard the undermining of incentives will be averted: a strong message will be sent.
  道德风险激励政策受到削弱将得以避免：这将传递一个强大的信息。
• 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。
• Some lawmakers expressed frustration about continued terrorist safe havens in Pakistan that are undermining NATO efforts in Afghanistan.
  一些议员对巴基斯坦继续成为恐怖分子的安全藏身处而破坏北约在阿富汗的工作感到挫折。