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

glacial sapping挖掘作用

basal sapping基部掏蚀

Strength Sapping Away战斗力正在流失

sapping of confidence逐渐失去了信心

landslide sapping基蚀山崩

hot sapping如热插拔

sap flow[植] 液流

glacial boulder sapping冰川挖掘

sapping pests吸汁害虫

flow of sap屎流

英汉例句

• 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。

• 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。

• that was aimed at reducing the loss of manufacturing jobs to asia, which is hollowing out japan’s industrial base and sapping tax revenues.

  该组织旨在减少亚洲制造业的工作的损失，这将挖空日本工业基础和侵蚀财政税收。

• i would isolate three distinct, albeit related, issues—balance sheet pressures sapping growth, instability in the core of the global economic system, and social tensions.

  我想分别谈三个截然不同但又彼此相关的问题——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。

• less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land — a nagging fear that america「s decline is inevitable, and the next generation must lower its sights.

  不易于衡量然而同样严重的是全国各地受动摇的信心——一种挥之不去的恐惧感，认为美国将不可避免地走下坡路，下一代人不得不放低眼光。

• we sit for too long at the computer, sapping energy.

  左面在电脑前坐太久，精力在消耗。

• that was aimed at reducing the loss of manufacturing jobs to asia, which is hollowing out japan」s industrial base and sapping tax revenues.

  这个地区旨在减少亚洲制造业工作岗位的损失，制造业工作的减少正挖空日本工业基础并削弱其税收。

• if there is a phone call you need to make, for example, it might bother you all morning, sapping your ability to think clearly, even while you are unaware of what is bothering you.

  比如你需要接一个电话，它可能打扰了你一早晨，它使你无法思考清晰，甚至当时你都没有意识到是什么在困扰你。

• less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land - a nagging fear that america「s decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.

  危机难以测量，但更难以测量的是其对美国人国家自信的侵蚀--现在一种认为美国衰落不可避免，我们的下一代必须低调的言论正在吞噬着人们的自信。

• either you are overloading the server, or there is a runaway process that is sapping your system resources.

  要么是服务器超负荷运行，要么是失控进程耗尽了系统资源。

• for the most part, the purely desktop user」s sensibilities are not sapping the free software culture so much as being accommodated and isolated as a special case.

  极大程度上，在被同化与孤立为特殊事件的过程中，纯图形界面用户的敏感性还不至于触碰到自由软件用户文化的根基。

• one bit of frustration shared by bernanke and hatzius is that their models aren「t saying what exactly is sapping the demand that they expected to pick up.

  伯南克和哈特久斯共同纠结的问题在于，他们的模型并没有说明到底是什么削弱了这一起初他们认为会增长的需求。

• 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沖击着年轻人的赚钱能力，使这个理由大打折扣。

• shiller: public projects are part of what we should be doing—new deal, civilian conservation corps-type projects—because unemployment is sapping the national morale.

  石磊：公共计划是我们着手的一部分——新政，民用保护公司类的计划，因为失业减低了民族士气。

• they won’t be able to do so under the new rules, and that will make them pickier about which swaps to write, sapping their own profits and again hurting liquidity.

  在新条例下他们不能再这么做了，这使得他们对签署什么合同考虑得更细，侵蚀他们自己的利益，还同样的削弱流动性。

• and its probably sapping your creativity along with it.

  也许你的创造力会因此而受阻滞。

• consistently breaking a sweat, along with medication and counseling can help people battling depression by sapping lonely and vulnerable feelings.

  在吃药和咨询的同时，不断让自己流汗，能让一个人克服孤单、脆弱的感觉，击败抑郁。

• but labour」s front bench cannot agree whether to apologise for giddy levels of spending before the credit crunch, or to boast about them, sapping the party「s credibility.

  然而，究竟是为其信用紧缩前过高的支出水平道歉、还是对其大肆吹嘘以至损坏党派的可信度，工党的前座议员（即反对派领袖）尚未达成共识。

• in sumptuous first-class cabins, humidity can plunge to 5%, sapping the bouquet from champagne and caviar.

  而在豪华的头等舱内，湿度会陡降至5%，破坏了香槟和鱼子酱的美味。

• stockmarket investors are already worried that problems in the housing market are sapping the economy」s vigour.

  证券市场的投资者们已经担心房地产市场的问题正在消耗美国经济的元气。

• less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land - a nagging fear that america’s decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.

  较难测量但同样影响深远的，是全国信心受重创，挥之不去的恐惧，担心美国衰落无可避免，担心下一代一定要降低期望。

• but the west’seconomic slump has given force to their claims by sapping the earning power ofthe young.

  但西方的经济衰退给他们更有力的立论基础，认为靠年轻人赚钱已元气大伤。

• but labour’s front bench cannot agree whether to apologise for giddy levels of spending before the credit crunch, or to boast about them, sapping the party’s credibility.

  但是是否对信贷危机前令人目眩的支出水平，或者进行大肆吹嘘高开支、损坏工党信誉的事情进行道歉，他们尚未取得一致。

• 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。