sapping

sapping是英語中的動詞、名詞，英式發音為/ˈsæpɪŋ/，美式發音為/ˈsæp.ɪŋ/。作動詞時表示“使排出汁液”“在…下挖坑道(靠近敵方)”等含義，是sap的現在分詞形式；作名詞時指“挖掘；下切；基蝕”。常見短語包括基部掏蝕（basal sapping）、冰川挖掘（glacial sapping）、吸汁害蟲（sapping pests）等。

該詞源於16世紀義大利語zappa（鍬），最初指圍城戰中挖掘壕溝破壞敵方陣地的戰術。在地質學領域，sapping指地下水侵蝕形成峽谷的過程；醫學語境中可描述體力衰竭狀態；競技體育領域多用於表達傷病對競技狀態的持續影響。其動詞形態在權威例句中多與士氣削弱、經濟活力消耗等抽象概念搭配使用。

基本介紹

• 外文名：sapping
• 詞性：名詞、動詞
• 發音：[ˈsæpɪŋ] 

單詞釋義

英 [ˈsæpɪŋ] 美 [ˈsæpɪŋ]

n. 挖掘；下切；基蝕

v. 使排出汁液；使成邊材（sap 的 ing 形式）

短語搭配

basal sapping 基部掏蝕 ; 下切

sapping of confidence 逐漸失去了信心

glacial sapping 挖掘作用

hot sapping 如熱插拔

tape sapping 換帶

sapping pests 吸汁害蟲

Strength Sapping Away 戰鬥力正在流失

glacial boulder sapping 冰川挖掘

雙語例句

• Stop sapping her confidence! 別動搖她的信心！
• Crocodiles are sapping up. 鱷魚們整在爭搶。
• That loss of confidence is sapping sterling. 失去信心讓英鎊衰竭了。
• We sit for too long at the computer, sapping energy. 左面在電腦前坐太久，精力在消耗。
• And its probably sapping your creativity along with it. 也許你的創造力會因此而受阻滯。
• Tighter credit conditions are sapping already feeble demand. 緊縮的信貸讓本就無力的需求更加乏力。
• Rotate agricultural crops to prevent the sapping of nutrients. 不同的作物輪耕，以防止土壤養分枯竭。
• To some, Citi’s aeroplane fiasco is equally confidence-sapping. 花旗集團的購機慘敗一事對某些人來說同樣是令人對銀行業者信心崩潰的。
• Unnecessarily long working hours are the norm, sapping productivity. 加班本不必要，卻成為常態，導致生產率受損。
• Deflation drives up real debt burdens, further sapping consumer spending. 通貨緊縮提高實際債務負擔，進一步削弱消費者的支出能力。
• Sometimes, a job that's sapping your energy can be fixed with just a few little tweaks. 有時候，一份耗費你精力的工作只需要稍作調整就能修復過來。
• But the West's economic slump has given force to their claims by sapping the earning power of the young. 但是西方經濟的不景氣衝擊著年輕人的賺錢能力，使這個理由大打折扣。
• In sumptuous first-class cabins, humidity can plunge to 5%, sapping the bouquet from champagne and caviar. 而在豪華的頭等艙內，濕度會陡降至5%，破壞了香檳和魚子醬的美味。
• Either you are overloading the server, or there is a runaway process that is sapping your system resources. 要么是伺服器超負荷運行，要么是失控進程耗盡了系統資源。
• Prices will probably fall again this year, sapping confidence and preventing people from moving to find work. 今年，房屋價格很可能再次下降，士氣大落而且讓人們不敢遷移去別的地方尋找工作機會。
• The fifty shades of gray hovering above China's cities could be sapping the country's men of their virility. 盤旋在中國城市上空的“五十度灰”有可能傷及該國男性的“男子氣概”。
• Stockmarket investors are already worried that problems in the housing market are sapping the economy's vigour. 證券市場的投資者們已經擔心房地產市場的問題正在消耗美國經濟的元氣。
• At the end of a hard day it can sometimes feel like gadgets such as phones and computers are sapping our energy. 在疲憊的一天結束之時，有時我們會感到手機電腦等設備好像正不斷地抽走我們的精力。
• Try letting go of the situation you cannot control, the one that's sapping your energy and churning your sleep. 讓消耗你的精力，擾亂你的睡眠而你又不能控制的局面順其自然吧。
• Groundwater sapping is the geomorphic reworking of surface topography induced by water seeping out from an aquifer. 地下水出流侵蝕是由含水層中的地下水的湧出所造成的地貌變化。
• But the idea that machines and technology are things to be feared, that theyare *sapping away our humanity, is hardly new. 但令人畏懼的黑科技摧毀人性的創意卻並不新鮮。
• Playing a game keeps your mind working (versus, say, watching TV), but doesn't have any of the energy-sapping stresses of work. 做遊戲會讓你的大腦保持運轉(相反，看電視這類活動會讓你的大腦停止活動)，但是它不會讓你工作的能量減少。
• 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. 羅傑斯明白他不得不從汽車的一側移開，因為洪水的巨大沖刷力正消耗著他本來就在削弱的力氣。
• Everything, it seems, is possible here, from utopian triumphs of the imagination to soul-sapping expressions of a disregard for individual lives. 每一個事物看上去都能在這存在下去，從理想中的烏托邦的勝利到漠視個體存在的表達。
• Consistently breaking a sweat, along with medication and counseling can help people battling depression by sapping lonely and vulnerable feelings. 在吃藥和諮詢的同時，不斷讓自己流汗，能讓一個人克服孤單、脆弱的感覺，擊敗抑鬱。
• It can highlight the resentful and self-pitying side of our character, while sapping the will to make changes that are clearly within the country's reach. 這種觀點充分顯示了我們性格中仇恨和自憐的一面，當需要做出一些明顯能做到的變化時，我們的行動力也大為削弱。
• Companies argue that one big swing of the axe does less harm than what Sequoia calls the “death spiral” of successive morale-sapping rounds of modest job cuts. 他們認為一次性的大規模裁員比紅杉資本所提出的連續性的無傷士氣的小規模裁員傷害性要小。