| 词汇 | undermine |
| 释义 | undermine verb[ T ] uk /ˌʌn.dəˈmaɪn/ us /ˌʌn.dɚˈmaɪn/ C2 to make someone less confident, less powerful, or less likely to succeed, or to make something weaker, often gradually: （常指逐渐地）削弱信心、权威等，损害 The president has accused two cabinet members of working secretly to undermine his position/him.总统指责有两位内阁部长在暗中算计他。 Criticism just undermines their confidence.批评只是削弱了他们的信心。 A succession of scandals and revelations has undermined the government over the past year.过去的一年里，一连串的丑闻和接连爆出的内幕损害了政府的威望。 Suddenly she just turned on me and accused me of undermining her.她突然开始攻击我，指责我背后说她坏话。 The country's economic position has been seriously undermined by this affair. He's been trying to undermine her position by spreading rumours about her. If you continually criticize children you can seriously undermine their confidence. Upsetting and destabilizing bring bring someone down delegitimize destabilization destabilize disruptive disruptively diversionist knock/throw someone for a loopidiom loop make wavesidiom skid stir turn unsettle unsettling unspool unspooling upset wave undermine | American Dictionaryundermine verb[ T ] us/ˌʌn·dərˈmɑɪn/ to gradually weaken or destroy someone or something: The incompetence and arrogance of the city’s administration have undermined public confidence in government. Examples of undermineundermine The trust of the settlement and residence parish was thereby undermined and the pauper became a problem. It is conceivable that, through their actions over time, interest groups concretize a particular identity thereby undermining strategic adoption of new identities. Yet this in no way undermined the trend towards greater political centralization. The structuring of clan society in the area would, thus, become untenable in practical terms, with its infrastructure undermined. These deficits could also include difficulties with impulse control that might further undermine the ability to arrive at effective choices. Another element undermining the total control exercised by central government was the question of corruption. Believing in these worlds resolves moral dilemmas that undermine social cooperation. Proposals for egalitarian redistribution are frequently objected to on the grounds that they will undermine incentives to work and invest in human capital. This then reduces the vigour and 'bounce' of the elastic recoil and undermines the integrity of a breathing pattern set at birth. If this tool is subsumed by other cultural influences, then the exclusive base of a country's nationalism will be undermined. By 1700, the gradual introduction of coin and more commercial exchanges were undermining the royal control of such exchanges. Consider another hypothetical world in which many but not all parents of cloned children undermine their self-esteem. But they remained too few and too scattered to undermine the left or to prevent the government's devastating crackdown on the union in 1985-86. The invasion thus destroyed the government's strategic policy, and undermined the political order on which the policy itself was based. I argue that the number-of-genes problem may nevertheless undermine the scientifically viability of this weaker adaptationist research strategy. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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