undermine

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ʌndə'maɪnˌʌndəˈmaɪn]
• 美式音标 [ˌʌn.dɚˈmaɪn]
• 国际音标 [,ʌndə'main]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• vt.逐漸削弱；暗中損害；在...下挖；從根基処損害

词根记忆

• under(下，少) + mine(挖)→在下麪挖牆腳→暗中破壞
• under(在…下) + mine(挖)→在下麪挖→削弱；破壞
• under(在…下麪) + mine(挖)→在下麪挖→破壞
• under(在…下) + mine(挖)→挖牆角→暗中破壞
• under(在…下) + mine(挖)→在下麪挖→破壞

同根派生

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用法辨析

v. (動詞)

• undermine的基本意思是“削弱…的基礎”,指逐漸地、常不被人察覺地破壞某一事物的根基,而使其遭到損壞,這種破壞可源於自然,也可源於人爲破壞。
• undermine是及物動詞,接名詞或代詞作賓語,可用於被動結搆。
• undermine引申可作“損壞”解,這種損壞不是突然間的,而是有一個長期的過程,用作及物動詞,接名詞或代詞作賓語。

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英汉例句

用作動詞 (v.)

用作及物動詞: S+～+ n./pron.

• Rivers undermine their banks.
  河水沖刷堤基。

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词组短语

用作動詞 (v.)

～+名詞

• undermine authority 破壞威信
• undermine bank 沖刷堤基
• undermine confidence 喪失信心
• undermine friendship 破壞友誼
• undermine health 損害健康

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• to make someone less confident, less powerful, or less likely to succeed, or to make something weaker, often gradually

柯林斯英英字典

• If you undermine something 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.
• If you undermine someone or undermine their position or authority, you make their authority or position less secure, often by indirect methods.
• If you undermine someone's efforts or undermine their chances of achieving something, you behave in a way that makes them less likely to succeed.

• undermine剑桥字典
• undermine柯林斯字典

专业释义

文學

• 危害

能源科學技術

• 掏槽

地球科學

• 掏槽

法學

• 暗中破壞