1.掘...的下面,在...下面掘地道,暗掘;冲蚀;削弱...的基础;用阴险手段毁损,暗中破坏(名声等);伤害(健康等)
1.to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful; to deliberately say or do things that make someone appear less impressive or less important
2.to dig under something, especially so that it becomes weaker
1.It took less than a week in office for the new government to be undermined.
从在任政府受损到新政府组建只花了不到一个星期。
2.This raises the important policy question of why and how Chinese growth systematically undermined its own consumption potential.
这就引发了一个重要的政策问题：中国经济增长为何以及怎样系统性地损害了中国自身的消费潜力。
3.He made it clear that he wanted the earlier deployment plan to go ahead and suggested that blocking it had undermined the British mission.
他曾明确表示，希望早期部署计划能够进行，并指出阻止它损害了英国的使命。
4.Strict surveillance and ECB independence was meant to make it impossible to end up in this situation; both have been undermined.
严格的监督与欧洲央行的独立性，本意是避免出现这种结局；但如今这两者都受到了破坏。
5.He said they undermined ties between the two countries and failed to appreciate "Pakistan's sacrifices to fight terrorists" .
他表示，这些话损害了两国关系，没有看到“巴基斯坦为打击恐怖分子所做出的牺牲”。
6.The judge said that assertion was undermined by the fact that Mr Lai himself had been trying to negotiate his return with Chinese officials.
法官说，赖昌星自己一直在试图与中国官员协商回国事宜，因此这种说法不成立。
7.A more exact word cannot be imagined. Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.
我想象不出更加精确字眼，但思考之始就蚕食的开始。
8.He said US economic diplomacy had been undermined by a lack of co-ordination.
鲍尔森称，由于缺乏协调，美国的经济外交已经受损。
9.Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times, says years of a communist insurgency and instability undermined the economy.
尼泊尔时报编辑昆达。迪克西特说，共产党人多年的反叛活动和政局不稳破坏了国家的经济。
10.Soaring unemployment numbers have undermined the confidence that we might be nearing the bottom of the recession.
失业人数飙升已破坏了人们对于经济衰退可能正接近底部的信心。