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1. The 1961 law forbidding dowries further undermined traditional Hinduism.

1961年,法律更进一步地破坏印度教传统的嫁妆。

2. The year 1968 marked a high water mark in the Vietnam War, when troop strength swelled to half a million and the Tet offensive undermined the U.

1968年标志着越南战争的高水位标记,当部队力量增加到五十万人,而越南春节攻势破坏了美国民众的信心。

3. In the 20th century the automobile's increasing popularity undermined mass transit development; fixed-rail streetcar systems were widely removed to provide space for cars.

20世纪汽车逐渐普及,妨碍了大众运输的发展;有轨电车被大幅移除,以提供汽车的空间。

4. Mrs. Arbour said the allegations that the United States was using secret facilities overseas to interrogate suspects undermined a global ban.

Arbour说有关于美国在国外使用秘密设施来审问嫌疑犯的指控破坏了全球禁止酷刑的禁令。我觉得很通啊。

5. The use of PDAs has undermined the traditional relationship in which teachers have authority over students within the classroom.

pda(科技)的使用颠覆了过往,课堂内传统师生之间的权力运作。

6. The scenario of “Islam hijack democracy” has undermined the US's determination to promote democracy in Middle East, which seems to support “Middle East exceptionalism”.

“伊斯兰劫持民主”这一民主化前景影响了美国在中东推动民主的热情,这似乎印证了民主化问题上的“中东例外论”。

7. Philadelphians' self-esteem has been undermined by national surveys showing they are among the fattest people in the United States.

“另外,居民是否具有魅力只是评价一座城市的一个很小的因素。”让费城人“伤自尊”的还不仅仅是这次调查。

8. "It also severely undermined China's core interest, gravely hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and sabotaged the political basis of China-France and China-EU relations.

“这也严重损害了中国的核心利益,严重地伤害了中国人民的感情和破坏了中法间的政治基础和中欧关系,中国政府坚决反对和强烈抗议这一行径。”

9. Insults undermined her confidence.

一再受到侮辱之后, 她渐渐丧失信心。

10. Tremendous bouts of drinking undermined his health.

一次次的狂欢损害了他的健康。

11. Unfortunately, calls for peace by a multitude of Kenyan groups, including nearly all of the country's business and religious leaders, have been undermined by posturing.

不幸的是,许多肯尼亚群体(包括了国家的商界与宗教界领袖们)对和平的要求已经被双方的对立形势所破坏。

12. World peace has been seriously undermined by the nuclear tests in India and Pakistan.

世界和平已经受到印度和巴基斯坦核试验的严重威胁。

13. China was outraged and said the United States had "gravely undermined" relations.

中国当时感到受到了冒犯,并称美国“极大地破坏了两国关系。”

14. China wants to cut inefficiency and create a "conserving society", but its efforts may be undermined by profligate local governments.

中国期望通过减少资源浪费来创建"节约型"社会。但这一努力因"浪费型的政府"而受到了制约。

15. And directors Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann have reportedly complained that the vogue for surgery has undermined actors' ability to express emotion.

也有报道说导演马丁斯科塞斯和巴兹鲁赫曼认为整容的风气破坏了演员表达情感的能力。

16. Second, it is because democratic centralism was undermined and the Party was afflicted with bureaucratism resulting from, among other things, over-concentration of power.

二是因为民主集中制受到破坏,党内确实存在权力过分集中的官僚主义。

17. However, another participant was concerned that this might lead to more prolonged debates in the Legislative Council and undermined efficiency.

亦有嘉宾担心这会导致在立法会有更多争拗,降低议事效率。

18. Efforts to control the resulting spread of smoking are undermined by the deluge of marketing,advertising and sponsorship that follows.

人们努力控制吸烟的危害,但这样的努力被随之而来的洪水般的销售、广告和赞助活动所淹没。

19. The deals he made to ensure his 1996 re-election undermined the democracy he championed.

他为了确保 1996年再次当选而做的交易破坏了他拥护的民主。

20. Our confidence in the team has been seriously undermined by their recent defeats.

他们最近的几次失败已严重动摇了我们对该队的信心。

21. Faith in the integrity of American business leaders was being undermined, George Bush said fiercely, by executives"breaching trust and abusing power".

他措辞激烈地说,由于管理人员"背信和滥用权力",人们对美国企业领导者诚信度的信心正在受到削弱。

22. He was often found sleeping underneath the table.His health was undermined by drink.A reporter happened to know his affair, He decided to visit the undergraduate.

他无法解开心结,于是他开始喝酒,他被常常发现睡在桌子下面,他的健康逐渐被饮酒削弱。

23. His health was undermined by drink.

他的健康由于饮酒而逐渐损坏。

24. His aim was to paint the election, when it came, as a contest between himself and Mr Ozawa, whose robustness has been undermined by poor health.

他的目的是将即将来临的大选包装成一场他和小泽之间的个人对决(后者由于健康状况不佳,精力不如从前)。

25. His health was undermined by constant drinking.

他经常饮酒使健康受到损害。

26. He was undermined with shame.

他羞得无容身之地。

27. Saying that when America strays from its ideals, the rule of law is undermined and the enemy emboldened.

他说,当美国偏离其理想时,法治就会受到损害,敌人会变得胆大妄为。

28. Having such input is one thing, but its value would be undermined without a coherent mechanism to put ideas into practice, and this is where the consultants proved invaluable.

付出这么多的努力是一回事,如果没有一个恒定的付诸实际的体制,管理策略的价值将会被逐渐削弱,这也正是咨询师的价值所在。

29. Such developments give rise to concerns that the middleman role of Hong Kong may diminish and its position as an international business centre may be undermined.

以上两个发展令部分人担心香港的中介作用会逐渐减弱,同时,香港作为国际商贸中心的地位亦会动摇。

30. The Iraq War and the credit bubble have fatally undermined America's economic primacy.

伊拉克战争和信用泡沫让美国的经济基础受到致命地侵蚀。

31. Stephen King, chief economist of HSBC says: “Piecemeal actions by different governments have undermined the credibility of other actions.

但在具体行动时,七大工业国却并不是那么的协调一致。

32. But prevarication over the construction of new pipelines has both undermined those threats and exasperated the Chinese.

但在建设新管道方面又一味搪塞,这不仅破坏了威胁的效果,而且激怒了中国人。

33. But he said the courts have undermined the transition.

但是他表示法院却破坏了这一转变。

34. But the outgoing president undermined confidence that he was on top of his brief by referring to Citigroup as Citicorp, the name it has not used for a decade.

但是这个即将卸任的总统对此没有多大的信心,因为他对那份声明稿都不甚熟悉,将花旗集团(Citigroup)说成了花旗公司(Citicorp),这个名字已经十年不用了。

35. But they brought rising inequality to Cuban society, and undermined party control.

但是,他们让古巴社会中存在的不平等现象增多,而且还削弱了政党的控制权力。

36. But even as early as the Punic Wars the sense of citizenship was being undermined by the growth of wealth and slavery.

但是,即使早在布匿战争时代,公民意识已经开始因为财富的增长和奴隶制发展而受到损害。

37. However, the current real estate market is a seller's market, which to a certain extent undermined the role of lawyers paternity purchase.

但是,目前的房地产市场还是一个卖方市场,这就从一定程度上削弱了律师陪购的作用。

38. But the rationale for the deal was undermined by the credit problems of the “monolines”, which insured the sewer system's bonds.

但是,这种交易的受到“单一险种保险”公司(这类公司为这个下水道系统进行保险)的信用问题影响。

39. But the massacre undermined faith in the monarchy in general, and turned Nepalis against this king in particular.

但血案的发生动摇了民众的信仰,并导致尼泊尔人对贾南德拉的极度不满。

40. Constructive "family values" that keep younger and older people actively involved in one another's lives must not be undermined or lost.

使得年轻人与老年人的生活产生互动的具有积极意义的“家庭价值观”决不能遭到破坏或失去。

41. A large number of economic crimes were dealt with in accordance with the law, and criminals found to have seriously undermined the market order were punished.

依法查处了一大批经济违法案件,惩治了严重破坏市场秩序的犯罪分子。

42. Russia's reliance on force and repression to pacify the region steadily undermined the legitimacy of its rule.

俄罗斯依靠武力和压制来保持该地区安定的策略使它逐渐丧失了在该地区实施统治的法理正当性。

43. There are many problems like this one,and if we don't handle them properly,our policies could easily be undermined and overall reform affected.

像这一类的问题还有不少,如果处理不当,就很容易动摇我们的方针,影响改革的全局。

44. Had the public started to doubt that entry was fairly imminent, the drive for reforms would have been undermined.

公众开始怀疑加盟近在咫尺,改革的动力将可能逐渐破坏。

45. Perversely, public policy even undermined the very things governments were trying to encourage.

公共政策还暗地里对政府鼓励政策进行破坏。

46. The Republicans immediately objected that Mr Emanuel's appointment undermined Mr Obama's promise to bring a new kind of politics to Washington.

共和党立即反对说,对伊曼纽尔的任命打破了奥巴马要给华盛顿一个新形式的政治的承诺。

47. The soldiers undermined the wall.

兵士们在墙下面挖地道。

48. S. effort to convince China to let the market determine the value of its currency may be undermined, analysts there say.

分析人士还表示,美国劝说中国推动人民币汇率市场化的努力也可能会因此受到削弱。

49. The qualifications and skill mix of the labour force might be undermined by outward migration.

劳动力的水平和综合技能可能由于外迁移民而被削弱。

50. Labor was equally certain that the influx of foreigners continually undermined the economic status of native workers.

劳动者也同样确信,外来移民的涌入对本土工人的经济状况不断造成损害。

51. Jalali and his group solved the problem last fall by making clever use of some of the very vibrations that undermined silicon's suitability for lasers in the first place.

去年秋天,贾拉里和团队成员利用原本妨碍矽发出雷射光的震荡,巧妙地解决了这个问题。

52. Lloyds, undermined by its acquisition of troubled HBOS, is next in the queue.

受到收购问题银行哈里法克斯银行(HBOS)的不良影响,劳合社将成为下一个受助对象。

53. Shares on the London Stock Exchange traded sharply lower than Friday, undermined by turmoil on bond and currency markets.

受到证券和货币市场波动的影响,伦敦证券交易所的交易额较周五大幅下降。

54. All the government's green schemes are being undermined by anartificial abundance of cheap capital, and by bureaucrats' enthusiasmfor channelling it to grubby industries.

可惜政府这些绿色计划正在被人为造成的四处充斥的便宜资本所阻挠:官员们很热衷于把这些资本引入到污染严重的工业领域。

55. But the official has now been accused of using similar language when addressing a player and, if guilty, his grievance with McFadden would be seriously undermined.

可是这位裁判现在正被指控用类似的语言来侮辱球员。

56. Hayek would always see inflation as an evil that corroded society and undermined democracy. The fight against inflation became a cornerstone of his economic philosophy.

哈耶克始终把通货膨胀看成侵蚀社会和破坏民主的恶魔。反对通货膨胀的斗争成为他经济哲学的一个基础。

57. The convicts undermined the prison wall and escaped.

囚犯们在监狱墙下挖地道逃跑了。

58. While Schacht partly spoke the truth, his freelancing undermined already shaky public confidence.

因为Schacht的言论部分指明了真相,他的自由言论削弱甚至动摇了公众的信心。

59. The linked exchange rate has therefore not, at least in recent years, undermined our competitiveness.

因此,至少在近几年来,联系汇率并没有削弱香港的竞争力。

60. But jurisdictions with tough rules are undermined by neighbours with weak ones.

因此,只有联邦政府实行统一的规定,才会真正管用。

61. The Secretary of Defense has said he would not stand by and let democracy be undermined.

国防部长说他不会眼看着民主制度被破坏而无动于衷。

62. At the upper left is a remnant of squamous esophageal mucosa that has been undermined by an infiltrating adenocarcinoma.

图的左上方是食管粘膜鳞状上皮残迹,食管粘膜已经被腺癌浸润破坏。

63. Incessant bickering destroyed Romano Prodi's centre-left government in 2006-08, and also undermined Mr Veltroni.

在2006-08年无休止的内部争论破坏了罗马诺.普罗迪建立中左翼政府的努力,韦尔特罗尼的努力尝试也无果而终。

64. The soybean balance sheet looks to be adequately supplied amid lackluster world demand that may be undermined further by macroeconomic woes.

在全球需求疲软且有可能因宏观经济委靡而进一步加剧的情况下,大豆期价走势似乎得到充分支持。

65. In other major clean-up campaigns, including of the Huai River, corruption and the pressure for economic development have undermined environmental protection efforts.

在其他主要清洁活动,包括淮河,削弱了腐败和压力,为经济发展,环境保护的做出努力。

66. In the name of fighting corruption at home, the Polish authorities corroded independent institutions, undermined the rule of law and misused the intelligence services.

在国内与腐败作斗争的名义下,波兰当局削弱了自主协会、破坏了法律原则和滥用情报部门。

67. In the US, the broad message is that affordability for first-time buyers has already been undermined.

在美国,普遍的信息是,首次购房者的支付能力已经下降。

68. A succession of scandals has undermined the government over the past years.

在过去的几年中,一件接一件的丑闻逐渐损害了政府(的声誉)。

69. Five months after the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR, there is not a single suggestion that autonomy is being undermined.

在香港特别行政区成立后的五个月内,并没有任何迹象显示,香港的自治权被削弱。

70. The foundations of the house have been undermined by groundwater.

地下水侵蚀了这座房屋的地基。

71. Based on the reality that public domain has beencontinuously undermined , the establishment of the public domain in copyright law is of great significance.

基于公有领域不断遭到削弱的现实,著作权法中确立公有领域具有重要意义。

72. The soldiers undermined the wall .

士兵们在墙下挖洞。

73. Many severe colds undermined the old man's health.

多次严重的感冒损害了老人的健康。

74. By about A. D. 500 the Mound Builder culture was declining, perhaps because of attacks from other tribes or perhaps because of severe climatic changes that undermined agriculture.

大约是在公元500年,营冢文化开始衰落,这也许是由于其他部落的进攻,也许是由于重大的气候变化对农业造成了破坏。

75. Soaring unemployment numbers have undermined the confidence that we might be nearing the bottom of the recession.

失业人数飙升已破坏了人们对于经济衰退可能正接近底部的信心。

76. Her unwillingness to answer questions undermined the strength of her position.

她不愿回答问题,这不利于她所处的形势。

77. Capello will be undermined entirely if he reassigns the armband at the behest of disgruntled members of the Football Association board.

如果卡佩罗在足总那些令人不满的成员的颐指下重新指定队长人选的话,那他可能被颠覆掉。

78. If our government remained passive when stolen documents became media currency, confidence and the ability to negotiate would be undermined.

如果失窃的文件象货币媒介一样四处乱飞,我们的政府还视若无睹,那么在国际谈判中,我们的信心和能力就会受损害。

79. Also,the general policy of unity against the enemy would be undermined if this relative freedom were denied or voluntarily abandoned.

如果被人抹杀或自己抛弃这种相对的自由权,那就也会破坏团结对敌的总方针。

80. If this was true, then nine months of denials of White House involvement were undermined.

如果这是真实的话,那么九个月来白宫一直否认与水门有牵连就算白搭了。

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