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

• 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。
• I know that some in China believe that greater freedom could threaten economic progress by undermining social stability.
  我知道，在中国有人认为扩大自由会破坏社会稳定，从而威胁经济发展。
• Traditional management models don't tell leaders how to support their Agile teams without undermining their emerging self-organisation.
  传统管理模式并没有告诉领导者，如何去支持其敏捷团队，又不削弱他们浮现出的自组织。
• Officials said the attack was aimed at undermining the peace process between the two countries.
  官方人员声称此次袭击目的在于暗中破坏两国之间的和平进程。
• 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。
• Unfortunately, Beijing's actions are sometimes regarded as undermining its own apparent strategy.
  不幸的是，北京的行动有时被认为破坏了自己的明显战略。
• Brennan said transnational crime threatens the world economy because criminals damage and distort financial systems by entering markets and undermining legitimate competition and market integrity.
  布伦南表示，跨国犯罪威胁世界经济，因为罪犯们通过进入市场、破坏合法竞争与市场完整性而损害并扭曲了金融系统。
• 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。
• Disobeying or undermining the political and religious governors of this information was severely punished.
  信息表明违反和破坏政治约束和宗教统治者的管理就要受到严厉的惩罚。
• Some commentators say the American emphasis on winning at all costs is undermining sportsmanship and good manners.
  有些评论家认为，美国人强调要不惜一切代价赢得比赛，因而损害了运动员的道德和良好举止；