scuppered

英 [ˈskʌpəd]

美 [ˈskʌpərd]

v.  使泡汤; 使成泡影
scupper的过去分词和过去式

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。

双语例句

• But his reconciliation attempt could yet be scuppered by history.
  但是，他的和解努力仍可能因历史问题而落空。
• The80-minute ceremony may have scuppered their chances of running a new personal best time, but the couple emerged beaming to a shower of confetti and cheers from guests and well-wishers.
  整场婚礼进行了80分钟，耽误的时间使他们没法取得比赛佳绩，但是伴着飘舞的五彩纸屑，还有宾客和祝福者的欢呼声，夫妻二人笑逐颜开，喜气洋洋。
• Before the deal was scuppered by regulators, he said that, without T-Mobile, Sprint lacked the scale for anything but a pseudo fight.
  在监管机构否决这项并购交易之前，孙正义曾表示，如果没有T-Mobile，Sprint只能打一场伪战斗。
• India scuppered the latest attempt to reinvigorate the WTO.
  印度破坏了重振WTO的最新努力。
• The scuppered talks indicate that, rather than being the new buyers of last resort in the consumer sector, emerging markets groups are still learning to navigate international mergers and acquisitions processes.
  这些破裂的谈判表明，新兴市场集团与其说是消费行业最后的购买人，不如说是仍在学习如何进行国际并购。
• Those two deals were scuppered by a combination of protectionist politics in the US and Chinese second thoughts, and the long-awaited follow-on wave of "aberrant buyer" acquisitions by Chinese purchasers largely failed to materialise.
  美国方面的保护主义政治和中国方面的再三思量，让这两笔交易最终流产，人们期待已久的、中国收购者随之而来的“反常买家”收购浪潮最终基本没有出现。
• 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。
• Hernan Crespo has admitted he is worried that Kakha kaladze's failure to seal a move to Chelsea could have scuppered his own chances of moving in the opposite direction to milan.
  克雷斯波承认他担心切尔西关于卡拉泽的谈判破裂使他丧失下赛季去米兰的机会。
• He refuses, however, to own up to known imports of equipment for enriching uranium ( another potential route to a bomb) that scuppered the very first Yongbyon deal.
  然而，他拒绝承认自己知道铀浓缩（制造核弹的另一个潜在途径）设备进口的事情，这就使宁边协议一开始就完蛋了。
• He scuppered his own ship rather than be caught.
  他宁可让船沉没而不愿被俘。