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scupper

英 [ˈskʌpə(r)]

美 [ˈskʌpər]

v.  使泡汤; 使成泡影
n.  [航]甲板上的排水孔; 排水口; 出水口; 水性杨花的女人; 水沟

过去分词:scuppered 过去式:scuppered 现在分词:scuppering 第三人称单数:scuppers 

TEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.22478 / COCA.41264

牛津词典

    verb

    • 使泡汤;使成泡影
      to cause sb/sth to fail
      1. The residents' protests scuppered his plans for developing the land.
        居民的抗议使他开发这片土地的计划泡了汤。

    柯林斯词典

    • VERB 彻底破坏(计划、企图);使成泡影
      Toscuppera plan or attempt means to spoil it completely.
      1. 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。
      2. 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。

    英英释义

    noun

    • drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard

      verb

      双语例句

      • The United Nations has conceded that a deal in Copenhagen on climate change might not include promised financial aid for developing countries, an admission that will infuriate poorer nations and potentially scupper a broad-based agreement.
        联合国(UnitedNations)已承认,在哥本哈根达成的气候变化协议,可能不包括为发展中国家提供资助的承诺。这将激怒较贫穷国家,还可能令一项基础广泛的协议泡汤。
      • The vote will scupper the school's reorganization plans.
        投票表决将会使学校的重组计划失败。
      • Moreover, a potential crash in the red-hot Chinese stock markets might scupper the expansion plans of new ventures.
        此外,如果目前火热的中国股市暴跌,成立合资企业的扩张计划可能受阻。
      • The Scupper Pump failed in the afternoon.
        斯库珀水泵下午坏了。
      • Yet Levett points out that the new, more stringent attitude to provenance may scupper some sales, but has also made safer parts of the market more buoyant.
        不过,莱韦特指出,近来对于古董来源更加严格的态度或许会让一些交易告吹,但也令来源有保障的古董市场变得更加活跃。
      • One way to ensure that they do not scupper the calculation is to encode the same information in several qubits instead of just one.
        要想保证误差不至使计算成为泡影,可以在几个不同的丘比特中编入相同的信息,而不是只用一个。
      • The scupper and outlet pipes are made of steel.
        排水口和排水管的材料为钢质。
      • You are going to have people in the US Congress saying, OK, Latin America can have its organisation so let's scupper the OAS ', he said.
        他表示:美国国会肯定会有人说,好,拉美可以有它的组织,那就让我们解散美洲国家组织吧'。
      • He notes that it can be common for vendors at the upper echelons of the housing market to become jealous if they think the person buying the house is richer than them. Tensions around these issues can scupper a sale.
        他说,在房地产市场中,高档住宅卖家若是感觉买主比自己富有,通常会很妒忌,而对这些事折腾计较就会把买卖搅黄。
      • Alas, China's powerful commerce ministry can't use tough anti-merger laws to scupper the deal because it has been structured as a production joint venture.
        不过,中国实权在握的商务部无法利用严格的反合并法律来破坏此项交易,因为它在结构上被设计成一家合资生产企业。