sapping
美 [sæp] 
英 [sæp]
词形变化
复数：saps 过去式：sapped 现在分词：sapping 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | [u] （植物体内运送养分的）液，汁the liquid in a plant or tree that carries food to all its parts |
| Maple syrup is made from sap extracted from the sugar maple tree. 槭糖浆是用糖槭树中提取的树液制成的。 |
2. | [c]
笨蛋；易上当的人a stupid person that you can easily trick, or treat unfairly |
1. | 使虚弱；削弱；逐渐破坏to make sth/sb weaker; to destroy sth gradually |
| The hot sun sapped our energy. 火辣辣的太阳烤得我们虚软无力。 |
| Years of failure have sapped him of his confidence. 连年失败使他逐渐丧失了自信。 |
英汉解释
n. | |
v. | 1. 榨取...的树液;去除...的白木质;使衰弱[衰竭] 3. (在...下面)挖掘使倒塌;(使)逐渐损坏,(使)逐渐削弱 |
abbr. | 1. (=semi-armour-piercing)半穿甲 |
英英解释
例句
Prince Turki said the kingdom was working on developing wind, solar and nuclear sources to avoid sapping oil exports.
费萨尔亲王说，沙特正在努力发展风能、太阳能和核能，以避免影响石油出口。
Rogers knew that he had to move from the side of the bus, where the full force of the current was sapping his dwindling energy.
罗杰斯明白他不得不从汽车的一侧移开，因为洪水的巨大冲刷力正消耗着他本来就在削弱的力气。
As a striker in his own playing days, Ferguson is also aware of the sapping effects of a bad run.
作为一个前锋出身的教练，弗格森很清楚地知道一次错误跑位的不良影响。
Not only is Houston flat but it's hot, a strength-sapping steam bath for at least six months of the year.
休斯敦地形平坦，天气酷热，一年中至少有6个月暑气蒸溽，令人四肢乏力。
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。
LAST November marked the start of the tenth year since the epic, stamina-sapping Doha round of trade talks began.
去年11月标志着自历史性的一刻——逐渐消耗耐力的多哈回合贸易谈判开始以来第十个年头的开始。
January's VAT rise has added to the inflation stemming from oil prices and a weak pound, sapping consumer spending.
1月份增值税的提高加重了缘起油价，货币贬值的通货膨胀，削减了消费者支出。
If taken too far, such handouts tend to become a crutch rather than a leg-up, and can end up sapping public support for the policy.
如果政府拨款毫无限度，就会成为绊脚石，而非一臂之力，并且最终还会削减公众对政策的支持。
Sometimes, a job that's sapping your energy can be fixed with just a few little tweaks.
有时候，一份耗费你精力的工作只需要稍作调整就能修复过来。
And its probably sapping your creativity along with it.
也许你的创造力会因此而受阻滞。
balance sheet pressures sapping growth, instability in the core of the global economic system, and social tensions.
削弱经济增长的资产负债表压力、全球经济体系核心的不稳定性，以及社会紧张关系。
In richer countries, rising gasoline prices have been sapping consumers' ability to spend on other things.
在较富裕的国家，汽油价格上涨已经影响了消费者在其他商品上的开支。
Unnecessarily long working hours are the norm, sapping productivity.
加班本不必要，却成为常态，导致生产率受损。
Excessive budget deficits, left unattended, risk weakening our markets and sapping our economic vitality.
如果我们对过度的预算赤字视而不见，那么我们的市场就可能受到削弱，我们的经济活力就可能受到损害。
But the West's economic slump has given force to their claims by sapping the earning power of the young.
但是西方经济的不景气冲击着年轻人的赚钱能力，使这个理由大打折扣。
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。
One worry is that the Franco-German proposals re-open a number of contentious debates within the EU, further sapping investor confidence.
有人担心，德法提议会重启欧盟内部的诸多争议，进一步打击投资者信心。
They want to slow expansion just enough to cool inflation without sapping job growth.
他们想在不影响就业率增长，而又足以抑制通货膨胀的基础上适当减缓发展速度。
A classic case where market intervention is sapping the moral fiber of a society, " Popenoe says. "
波普诺说：“这是市场介入在削弱社会道德意志的一个典型案例。”
As Mr Acquisti says, sharing named photos online has "opened the floodgates" to a new, privacy-sapping world. Shutting them will be hard.
正如阿奎斯蒂所说的那样，共享网上的已命名照片，恰似向隐私正遭受破坏的新世界打开了一扇闸门，想要再关上，就难了。
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。
They wanted to draw us in to endless wars, sapping our strength and confidence as a nation.
他们想将我们拖入无止境的战争中，在战争中消耗我们的力量和信心。
Concerns about the European debt crisis and high unemployment are sapping the Christmas holiday spirit in some of Europe's capitals.
欧洲债务危机引起的忧虑和高失业率，使今年欧洲各国首都的圣诞节气氛低迷。
Our war is sapping our money, lowering the value of our dollar and making people very insecure.
战争已经消耗了我们太多财力，货币贬值使我们很没有安全感。
Deflation drives up real debt burdens, further sapping consumer spending.
通货紧缩提高实际债务负担，进一步削弱消费者的支出能力。
Investors can expect plenty more dollar-sapping monetary policy to come.
投资者可以期待大量不利于美元的新货币政策出台。
Prices will probably fall again this year, sapping confidence and preventing people from moving to find work.
今年，房屋价格很可能再次下降，士气大落而且让人们不敢迁移去别的地方寻找工作机会。
Still, in both cases we had to make these desperate energy-sapping comebacks in the 4th quarter and had nothing left for OT.
还是这样的，我们在两场比赛中都在第四节中把我们的精力耗尽而没有留一点给加时赛。
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。
The players are coming off an energy sapping Champions League match midweek but they need to lift again for this home match against {30}.
运动员是来临走开能源削弱冠军联盟比赛一周之半但是他们需要再一次对举起为这家比赛反对{30}。
She would walk in futile circles, sapping her strength while going nowhere.
当无处可去的时候，她会不停的走圈子以宣泄她的精力。
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。
The 1930s brought bull markets followed by bears, taking back gains and sapping investor confidence.
三十年代先是经历了牛市，接着出现了熊市，将此前的收益一扫而光，让投资者信心顿失。
They want to draw us into endless wars, sapping our strength and confidence as a nation.
他们想把我们拉近无止尽的战争，削弱我国的强势及自信。
Another is the debilitating row about Germany's stance towards bail-outs and credit haircuts, which is also sapping confidence.
其二是德国在纾困和信贷折减等问题上的立场引发的争执，这种争执会产生不良影响，同样有损信心。
Which, it turns out, is a huge productivity-sapping mistake.
但结果，我们却犯了效率低下的错误。
I thought about sharon escaping the life-sapping neons of the supermarket. . . traveling to south america , pursuing her dreams.
我幻想莎伦逃离超市那，吸噬生命的霓虹灯…，奔向南美，追寻着她的梦。
Behind the dismal economic numbers is a global recession that is sapping demand for the products Taiwan makes.
这忧郁的经济数字背后显示了台湾制造的产品的全球需求正逐渐被挖墙角。
Germany has the third-largest trade surplus in the world, after China and Japan, sapping growth in its European neighbors.
德国是继中国、日本后世界第三大贸易盈余国，德国吮吸了其欧洲邻国的经济增长。
Rotate agricultural crops to prevent the sapping of nutrients.
不同的作物轮耕，以防止土壤养分枯竭。
