| 词汇 | undermined |
| 释义 | undermined past simple and past participle ofundermine 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 undercut undermine unsettle unsettling unspool unspooling wave Examples of underminedundermined In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The trust of the settlement and residence parish was thereby undermined and the pauper became a problem. Yet this in no way undermined the trend towards greater political centralization. Our later discussion about the relation between feasibility and sincerity suggests, however, that this expressive value need not be undermined by strategic voting. The invasion thus destroyed the government's strategic policy, and undermined the political order on which the policy itself was based. This article has highlighted the importance of protecting these documents by setting in place effective formal safeguards against their being undermined through constitutional amendment. The framework of the global is undermined by the focus on individual particulars which remain merely individual. The morale of the rural population is heavily undermined by this. This increasing public responsibility undermined the work of the benevolent philanthropic societies and left them with very little legitimacy. Futurism, for instance, played an important role in interventionism, but other radical artists undermined the nations' war efforts. This indiscipline undermined the chain of command which, of course, perfectly suited the other side. Finally, the political and economic upheaval undermined many of the principles the reformers stood for. The whole system was thus counterproductive because it undermined financial responsibility within departments without achieving any strategic economic gains. Worse still, they blatantly undermined the colonial mission by preaching divine healing. Discourses of difference prescriptively defined by self\\communal alienation are thus critically and imaginatively undermined. Yet the position of those powerful new men who had accumulated large followings was, in the long term, undermined by these changes. 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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