英语释义

1. the fluid part of a plant specifically a watery solution that circulates through a plant's vascular system

2. a body fluid (such as blood) essential to life, health, or vigor

3. bodily health and vigor

4. a foolish gullible person

5. blackjack, bludgeon

6. to drain or deprive of sap

7. to knock out with a sap

8. to proceed by digging a sap

9. to subvert by digging or eroding the substratum or foundation undermine

10. to gradually diminish the supply or intensity of
sapped her strength

11. to weaken or exhaust the energy or vitality of
the illness sapped him of his stamina

12. to operate against or pierce by a sap

13. the extension of a trench to a point beneath an enemy's fortifications

14. a watery juice that circulates through a plant and carries food and nutrients

15. to weaken or use up little by little
… the heavy load they dragged sapped their strength severely.
— Jack London, The Call of the Wild

16. — see cell sap, nuclear sap

片语

flow of sap屎流

sap flow[植] 液流

英汉例句

• Floods in Australia and another earthquake in New Zealand had already sapped chances of handsome profits this year when the tsunami struck.

  当海啸袭来之时，澳大利亚的洪水和新西兰又一次的地震已经让今年获得可观利润的可能扼杀于摇篮。

• She「s been sapped of her optimism.

  她的乐观情绪已逐渐消失了。

• Much of Germany」s second-quarter GDP growth came from trade, even as a wider trade gap sapped America「s economy.

  尽管美国的贸易差额愈来愈大使经济受损，德国第二季度GDP增长大部分还是来源于贸易。

• An arch of the bridge in the park has been sapped and sopped away.

  公园里的那座桥有一个桥洞被水沖毁，而且被沖走了。

• Admittedly, the second quarter may have been unlucky, as Europe」s debt crisis and the BP oil spill sapped business confidence and an anomalous surge in imports ate into growth.

  我们承认也许是在二季度时运不济。欧洲债务危机和BP石油泄漏瓦解了商业信心，进口的反常暴涨对于增长的影响也显露出来。

• It「s like having the energy sapped out of a muscle without the health benefits of exercise.

  这就如同没有经过对健康有益的锻炼，就把肌肉中的能量消耗掉一样。

• The very success of many parts of the world in limiting population has sapped donors」 enthusiasm.

  正是许多国家有效地控制了人口的增长使得捐赠者热情减退。

• The task has been sapped of some of its drama by recent budget Revelations.

  最近透露的预算报告显示，削减赤字这项任务的难度已降低不少。

• Although Basel continues to consider such measures, much of its energy has been sapped by the supposedly straightforward question of building up Banks「 safety buffers.

  尽管巴塞尔继续考虑这样的方法，但是它的大部分精力都消耗在建立银行安全缓沖这个貌似更加直接的问题上。

• The dismal Labour market has not sapped the government」s ardour for welfare reform, nor that of voters.

  惨淡的就业市场没有浇灭政府和选举人对福利改革的热情。

• More recently, the crisis has sapped the strength of even the so-called 「core」 euro-zone countries.

  近段时间，即便是那些所谓的「核心」欧元区国家的气力也被危机耗尽了。

• True, he had been taking nourishment, but the work the doctors had been doing on him had just about sapped his remaining vitality.

  他一直在吃营养品，这是事实，但是医生们在他身上所作的一切努力只是在榨取他残留的活力。

• In recent years revenues have been sapped by the economic crisis and the difficulty of attracting rich visitors.

  近年来税收因金融危机而减少，吸引有钱的游客也变得困难。

• This is often why people are sapped by mid-afternoon.

  这就是通常人们半下午元气大伤的原因所在。

• He argues that workers「 productivity has fallen in most industries, making it hard to maintain that the shrinkage of finance has seriously sapped Britain」s capacity.

  他认为，在很多行业，工人的生产率都在下降，所谓的「金融收缩严重破坏英国生产能力」的说法难以服人，同时他认为这也怪不得信用缺失。

• The crash in the stock market has also sapped consumer confidence.

  股市的暴跌也打击了消费者信心。

• This gradually sapped the government「s energy.

  这件事缓慢消解了政府的能量。

• I told the boy」s father that his son needed hospital care. I also explained that severe anemia had sapped his energy to walk and talk.

  我告诉男孩的父亲，这孩子需要住院治疗；我还解释说是严峻的贫血癥使他慢慢地丧失了行走和说话的力量。

• His friends believed, no matter what the actual cause of death, that between them, the KGB and the SIS had sapped his will to live.

  他的朋友认为，无论真正的死因如何，是克格勃和秘密情报局联手抹尽了沃尔芬登对生的渴望。

• Your strength is being sapped by someone or something.

  你的能力正在被某人或者某事一点点的侵蚀。

• By next year, profits will be sapped by higher tax rates and higher commodity and labor costs, he says.

  明年，更高的税率和更高的物价及劳动力成本将会让赢利大幅降低。

• And he will need to emphasise that he is prepared to undo some of the savage cost-cutting undertaken during Mr Hurd「s reign, which dented the company」s innovation engine and sapped its morale.

  他也得强调，他準备取消赫德先生在任时实施的一些无理的成本削减，这些削减损害了惠普公司的创新引擎，打击了士气。

• He argues that workers「 productivity has fallen in most industries, making it hard to maintain that the shrinkage of finance has seriously sapped Britain」s capacity.

  他认为大多数产业的工人生产率已经下降，而财政紧缩量比严重的削弱了英国的生产力这个说法很难让人信服。

• The global recession and the strength of the Australian dollar have also sapped the country’s appeal to foreign students.

  全球性的经济衰退以及澳元的紧缩同样削弱了澳大利亚对外国留学生的吸引力。