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

  1. VERB 消耗(精力);削弱(信心)
    If something saps your 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。
  2. N-UNCOUNT (植物的)液,汁
    Sap is 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。
  3. N-COUNT 笨蛋;傻瓜
    If you describe someone as a sap, you think they are foolish.
    1. ...her poor sap of a husband.
      她可怜的傻瓜丈夫

双语例句

  1. 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。
  2. The deficits this country must reconcile are much more than financial, and our inability to solve our own problems is sapping our national spirit.
    国家必须协调的赤字不仅仅是资金问题,此外我们无力解决自身的诸多问题,这正在使国家丧失元气。
  3. They say these workers, mostly in their20s and early30s, are sapping Japan's international competitiveness at a time when the aging country must raise its productivity to keep the economy growing.
    他们说,这些多为二十多岁或三十岁出头的员工削弱了日本的国际竞争力,而此时这个老龄化国家所需的是提高生产力以保持经济增长。
  4. Either you are overloading the server, or there is a runaway process that is sapping your system resources.
    要么是服务器超负荷运行,要么是失控进程耗尽了系统资源。
  5. The fifty shades of gray hovering above China's cities could be sapping the country's men of their virility.
    盘旋在中国城市上空的五十度灰有可能伤及该国男性的男子气概。
  6. Retail therapy does work, but being happy can end up sapping our self-control in the face of tempting sales.
    零售也是个好办法,开心的感觉能让我们在面对折扣的诱惑时失去自我控制。
  7. 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。
  8. 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。
  9. Apply that question across the board and you'll know what and who is sapping your energy so you can avoid them.
    将问题在生活中应用的话,你会知道谁哪些事情在消耗你的能量,你就能避开。
  10. 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。
  11. That was aimed at reducing the loss of manufacturing jobs to Asia, which is hollowing out Japan's industrial base and sapping tax revenues.
    这个地区旨在减少亚洲制造业工作岗位的损失,制造业工作的减少正挖空日本工业基础并削弱其税收。
  12. A military engineer who does sapping ( digging trenches or undermining fortifications).
    挖掘(挖堑壕或破坏工事)的工兵。
  13. More generally, falling property prices are one of the factors sapping consumer confidence.
    更广泛地说,房价不断下跌是打击消费者信心的因素之一。
  14. Some offshore subsidiaries of Chinese banks responded by shifting renminbi back over the border, sapping liquidity from the Hong Kong market.
    中资银行的部分离岸子公司因此将人民币转回内地,削弱了香港市场的流动性。
  15. Less measurable, but no less profound, is a sapping of confidence across our land; a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, that the next generation must lower its sights.
    不到衡量,但不深刻,是一个削弱信心通过我们的土地,一个恼人的担心,美国的衰落是不可避免的,下一代必须降低其景点。
  16. Try letting go of the situation you cannot control, the one that's sapping your energy and churning your sleep.
    让消耗你的精力,扰乱你的睡眠而你又不能控制的局面顺其自然吧。
  17. He maintained they are vile mystical creatures from another realm who can only sustain their existence in our world by sapping life energy from men or animals.
    他说这些卑劣的神秘生物来自于一个通过吸取人类或者动物能量来维持生命的物种。
  18. 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。
  19. Water sprays dehydrate your skin by sapping it of any existing moisture so she advises using one with refreshing, hydrating additives such as aloe vera, mint or lavender.
    水喷雾会带走已有的水分,从而让你的皮肤干燥。因此,她建议使用添加了芦荟、薄荷或薰衣草等提神、湿润成分的喷雾。
  20. 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。
  21. She would walk in futile circles, sapping her strength while going nowhere.
    她经常会使尽全身的力量在原地里做无谓的转圈动作。
  22. Rabid Bite: Trundle bites his opponent, dealing damage and sapping some of their attack damage.
    狂咬:川德尔撕咬他的敌人,造成伤害,并枯竭他们一部分攻击力。
  23. This hot weather is very sapping& it makes me feel tired all the time.
    这热天真使人筋疲力尽&使我老觉得疲乏。
  24. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land.
    危机难以测量,但更难以测量的是其对美国人国家自信的侵蚀。
  25. Lack of planning is sapping the company's efficiency.
    公司缺乏计画性已逐渐降低了工作效率。
  26. 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。
  27. 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。
  28. The study is of much significance to engineering problems such as piping, sapping, and heat conduction.
    对于管涌、流土、热传导等工程问题具有一定的意义。
  29. 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。
  30. Drill pipe which is used in the sapping drill marine of coal mine receive several kinds of load which include bend, torsion, vibration, pull and press.
    煤矿用坑道钻机钻杆在孔内受各种载荷作用,包括弯曲、扭转、振动及拉压等。