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

• This largely undermines the value of the DMZ.
  这极大地破坏了DMZ的价值。
• It undermines cohesion and creates dissension.
  这件事会破坏团结，制造纠纷。
• 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。
• The encyclical undermines their efforts.
  教皇通谕对他们的努力没有帮助。
• 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。
• 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。
• I suppose the kind of example I'm setting her is one which undermines authority.
  我想我现在为她树立的大概是个破坏权威的榜样吧。
• Protectionism clearly undermines the notion of an open and efficient market.
  保护主义显然破坏了开放和高效率市场的概念。
• This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace.
  这个建筑违背了之前的约定，破坏了追求和平的努力。
• Corruption also undermines economic development by generating considerable distortions and inefficiency.
  腐败还破坏了经济发展产生相当大的扭曲和效率低下。