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　

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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

• put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
  Synonym:queerexposeendangerperil
• wait in hiding to attack
  Synonym:ambushbushwhackwaylaylurkambuscadelie in wait

双语例句

• Some had thought the Saudi controversy would scupper the deal, though it passed without trouble.
  有人曾担心有关沙特交易的争论可能会破坏此次收购，但最终却顺利完成了。
• 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。
• They worry it could be used to scupper merger and acquisition deals.
  他们担心，《反垄断法》可能被用于阻挠并购交易。
• Run off pipes to be connected temporarily for out board scupper ( 10 pcs in total) during time of painting.
  油漆时，舷侧出水孔（共10处）接临时疏水管。
• 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。
• Some think this amounts to a "wrecking strategy" to scupper a pooling of risk and responsibility Berlin does not really want.
  一些人认为，这不啻一种“破坏战略”，意在阻挠风险和责任共担安排的形成，因为这种安排并不是德国想要的。
• Encouraging stuff, though some fret that any hiccup in equity markets could scupper these plans.
  这些都是振奋人心的消息，然而一些人担心，如果股票市场稍有下跌，这些计划将付之东流。
• 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。
• Deck scupper ipes and sanitary discharge
  甲板排水及卫生水放泄系统
• The world oil glut combined with disastrous federal energy policies to scupper Alberta's economy ( Christian Science Monitor)
  世界石油过剩再加上具有破坏性的联合能源政策使阿尔伯达的经济遭受破坏（基督教科学箴言报）