| 词汇 | undermining |
| 释义 | undermining present 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 underminingundermining In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It is conceivable that, through their actions over time, interest groups concretize a particular identity thereby undermining strategic adoption of new identities. Another element undermining the total control exercised by central government was the question of corruption. By 1700, the gradual introduction of coin and more commercial exchanges were undermining the royal control of such exchanges. The musicians' use of dynamics underlines the marchers' reflexive awareness of performance, the carnival's undermining of the distinction between outsider and participant. Harsh tax enforcement in situations with poor service delivery may thus contribute to further undermining the legitimacy of the government and increase tax resistance. By undermining the possibility of the widows' agency, they could discredit the governmental construction of "voluntary" sati on which toleration of the rite was based. Strengthening this force was seen as undermining the president's grip on power and consolidating that of his deputy defence minister. This placed individuals in a paradoxical position : they were vulnerable to exploitation, but protest or complaint risked undermining their position even further. These more narrowly circumscribed educational, developmental, and psycholinguistic determinants are subordinated to politicalideological impositions at the risk of undermining basic democratic principles. He also argues that individual preferences may sometimes fail to be single-peaked even on an agreed-upon formal dimension, thereby undermining part (3). I think it is arrogant for officials to consider deliberately undermining their ministers by going outside the department. Pragmatic interpretation is always needed, but this fact should not be interpreted as undermining the pragmatic/ semantic distinction. The government's labour market and other economic policies still serve to worsen inequality, undermining the redistributive effects of the budget. It is proposed that these weakened representations may linger after articulation has normalized, undermining phonemic sensitivity and hence reading acquisition in the early school years. Many of the papers in this volume end up undermining one or other aspect of the saltationist view. 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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