undermines

英 [ˌʌndəˈmaɪnz]

美 [ˌʌndərˈmaɪnz]

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
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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

• The criminalization of politics undermines our very system. I am very disappointed.
  有政治动机的定罪破坏我们的司法体系，对此我感到非常失望。
• Any disease which undermines a man's general health will interfere with his sperm production
  任何有损男性整体健康状况的疾病都会影响精子的产生。
• Momentum also undermines China's regional charm offensives.
  发展势头也削弱了中国的区域魅力攻势。
• Cheating undermines confidence and independence: the cheater is a fraud, and knows that without dishonesty, he/ she would have failed.
  作弊会瓦解人的自信心和独立性：作弊者是个骗子，他/她知道如果不是通过不诚实的手段，自己已经失败了。
• They argue that the amendment undermines Canadian federalism.
  他们认为该修正案损害了加拿大联邦制。
• It is this persistent propaganda that undermines real progress in black-white relations.
  正是这种一贯的宣传阻碍了黑人与白人关系的真正进展。
• This fear could easily be self-fulfilling, because it weakens confidence and further undermines the case for additional stimulus.
  这种担心很容易自我实现，因为它会打击信心，进而削弱政府出台新刺激政策的理由。
• All of this undermines the diagnosis that Big Pharma should accept that research is somebody else's job.
  上述种种都破坏了大制药公司应该同意的一个看法，即研究是别人的事。
• This largely undermines the value of the DMZ.
  这极大地破坏了DMZ的价值。
• In addition, civil rights groups oppose the measure on grounds it undermines privacy rights.
  另外，公民权利组织也反对该法案的实施，因为它破坏了隐私权。