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。
• 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。
• 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。
• That's undermining jobs directly.
  这是直接破坏工作。
• We should be in a position of encouraging confidence, not undermining it.
  我们应当立足于鼓励建立信心，而不是破坏它。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• By punishing Russia economically, the US and Europe are undermining the open international system.
  通过在经济上惩罚俄罗斯，美国和欧洲正在破坏开放的国际体系。