sapping

英 [ˈsæpɪŋ]

美 [ˈsæpɪŋ]

v.  使虚弱; 削弱; 逐渐破坏
sap的现在分词

现在分词：sapping　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 消耗(精力);削弱(信心)
  If somethingsapsyour strength or confidence, it gradually weakens or destroys it.
  1. I was afraid the sickness had sapped my strength...
     我担心患病已让我元气大伤。
  2. Analysts say the recession in Japan has sapped investor confidence.
     分析家称日本的经济衰退已经打击了投资者的信心。
• N-UNCOUNT (植物的)液，汁
  Sapis the watery liquid in plants and trees.
  1. The leaves, bark and sap are also common ingredients of local herbal remedies.
     树叶、树皮和树汁也是当地草药的常用药材。
• N-COUNT 笨蛋;傻瓜
  If you describe someone as asap, you think they are foolish.
  1. ...her poor sap of a husband.
     她可怜的傻瓜丈夫

双语例句

• But investors fear the ECB has mistimed the moment to act and the region is slipping into a deflationary spiral, sapping growth and increasing debt burdens.
  但投资者担心欧洲央行没有把握好行动时机。目前该地区正滑向一个通缩漩涡，削弱增长势头，并增加债务负担。
• The flight of capital is sapping the deposits needed to refinance mortgages and small business loans, causing a full-blown credit crisis.
  资本外逃导致储蓄锐减，令按揭再融资和小企业贷款供应紧张，引发全面的信贷危机。
• Mr saito's warning comes amid growing concern that poor corporate governance, which has led to the adoption of excessive takeover defence measures and stymied mergers and acquisition activity, is sapping the competitiveness of Japanese companies and the vitality of the economy.
  齐藤发出上述警告之际，人们越来越担忧不良的公司治理正在侵蚀日本公司的竞争力和日本经济的活力，这种不良治理已导致过分的收购防御措施，阻扰了并购活动。
• What's worse, the animalistic instinct dormant deep in our subconsciousness will come to life, weakening our will to pursue our noble ideal, sapping our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success and strangling our desire for the refinement of our character.
  更糟的是，蛰伏在我们潜意识深处的兽性本能就会复活，削弱我们追求高贵理想的意志，弱化我们扫除成功障碍的决心，而且扼杀我们净化人格的欲望。
• With business and consumer confidence already low and sapping economic growth, it is a bad moment for stop-start crises, particularly if drawn out over a long time.
  鉴于企业和消费者信心低迷和经济增长乏力，倘若目前危机时断时续，则局面难于应对，尤其是在危机久拖不决的情况下。
• A military engineer who does sapping ( digging trenches or undermining fortifications).
  挖掘（挖堑壕或破坏工事）的工兵。
• Groundwater sapping is the geomorphic reworking of surface topography induced by water seeping out from an aquifer.
  地下水出流侵蚀是由含水层中的地下水的涌出所造成的地貌变化。
• Tighter credit conditions are sapping already feeble demand.
  紧缩的信贷让本就无力的需求更加乏力。
• It is said that while in Wu Xi Shi was all the time secretly carrying out Wen Zhong's scheme of sapping the national strength of Wu by every means.
  据说，西施在暗中实施文种的计谋，用各种方法来消耗吴国的国力。
• Since teaching is an art, it requires for highly innovative thinking and is not only a heavy and complicated working that includes considerable repetitive laboring, but also time-consuming and energy sapping.
  教学是一门艺术，它需要高度的创造性；但同时也是一项十分繁复的工作，特别是其中包含着大量的重复性劳动，需要教师花费较多的时间和精力。