-
VERB
（常指逐漸或反復）削弱，損害（情感、體制等）
If you undermine something such as a feeling or a system, you make it less strong or less secure than it was before, often by a gradual process or by repeated efforts.
例句
Offering advice on each and every problem will undermine her feeling of being adult...
對每個問題都給出建議會令她覺得自己不像個成年人。
Western intelligence agencies are accused of trying to undermine the government.
西方情報機構被指責企圖動搖該政府的統治。
-
VERB
（常指間接地）削弱，損害，動搖（某人的地位或權威）
If you undermine someone or undermine their position or authority, you make their authority or position less secure, often by indirect methods.
例句
She undermined him and destroyed his confidence in his own talent...
她暗中打擊他，讓他對自己的才華信心全無。
The conversations were designed to undermine her authority so she felt that she could no longer work for the company.
這些談話有意削弱她的威信，這樣她會覺得自己在公司干不下去。
-
VERB
破壞，損害（某人的努力或成功的機會）
If you undermine someone's efforts or undermine their chances of achieving something, you behave in a way that makes them less likely to succeed.
例句
The continued fighting threatens to undermine efforts to negotiate an agreement...
持續的戰斗會破壞希望通過談判來達成協議的努力。
I don't want to do something that would undermine the chances of success.
我不想做會影響成功機會的事情。