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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

      • There are still a few issues to iron out which could scupper a deal but this [ sale] could be announced soon, said one person familiar with the matter.
        目前仍有几个有碍交易的问题有待解决,但此项[交易]可能很快就会宣布,一位知情人士表示。
      • The scupper and outlet pipes are made of steel.
        排水口和排水管的材料为钢质。
      • The proposed bid, which could herald a major consolidation of the Chinese airline sector, is the latest step in an unusually aggressive battle by state-owned CNAC to scupper CEA's planned tie-up with Singapore Airlines which has already been approved by China's State Council.
        上述竞购提议是国有的中航集团异常大胆的竞购战的最新一步,旨在破坏已得到中国国务院批准的东航与新航结盟计划。此次竞购可能拉开中国航空业重大整合的帷幕。
      • Deck scupper ipes and sanitary discharge
        甲板排水及卫生水放泄系统
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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'。
      • 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。
      • These are just the sorts of problems that would be expected to scupper a half-convertible currency.
        可想而知,上述种种问题都会阻碍一种半可兑换货币的发展。
      • 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。