scuppers
英 [ˈskʌpəz]
美 [ˈskʌpərz]
v. 使泡汤; 使成泡影
scupper的第三人称单数和复数
柯林斯词典
- VERB 彻底破坏(计划、企图);使成泡影
To scupper a plan or attempt means to spoil it completely.- If Schneider had seen him that would have scuppered all his plans...
如果施奈德看到了他，那他的所有计划都泡汤了。 - If the Commission has its way, the entire deal will be scuppered.
如果委员会我行我素的话，整个交易将化为泡影。
- If Schneider had seen him that would have scuppered all his plans...
双语例句
- In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discoloured to the hilt with blood.
只有半分钟的工夫他已横越甲板爬到左舷的排水孔那里，从盘成一堆的绳子底下摸出一把长长的小刀，可以说是一把短剑，上面的血一直染到了刀柄上。 - We were both of us capsized in a second, and both of us rolled, almost together, into the scuppers;
我们俩立刻失去了平衡，几乎是扭在一起滚向排水孔。 - Chief Engineer: Plug the scuppers and report.
轮机长：堵上排水孔并报告。 - Negotiations are continuing with Reebok chiefs reluctantly warning the former Newcastle man that they could take legal action and demand compensation, if he scuppers the deal.
谈判仍在继续，对方警告如果哈曼执意不同意转会，他们会采取法律措施并要求赔偿。 - And an empty bottle, broken by the neck, tumbled to and fro like a live thing in the scuppers.
一只断颈空酒瓶在排水孔之间滚来滚去，倒像件活的东西。 - Are scuppers effectively plugged and drip trays in position, both on board and ashore?
船岸双方的排水孔是否已堵塞严密、集液盘是否已安置就位？ - Are scuppers on the main deck effectively plugged?
主甲板泄水孔是否已堵塞？