1.[u](植物体内运送养分的)液,汁the liquid in a plant or tree that carries food to all its parts
Maple syrup is made from sap extracted from the sugar maple tree.槭糖浆是用糖槭树中提取的树液制成的。
2.[c](informal)笨蛋;易上当的人a stupid person that you can easily trick, or treat unfairly
1.使虚弱;削弱;逐渐破坏to make sth/sb weaker; to destroy sth gradually
The hot sun sapped our energy.火辣辣的太阳烤得我们虚软无力。
Years of failure have sapped him of his confidence.连年失败使他逐渐丧失了自信。
Some argue that this combination of deflation-sapped growth and high debt makes Japan next in line for a Greek-style debt crisis.
一些人认为通货紧缩的微弱增长和高负债的组合会使日本陷入希腊式债务危机。
That lost time sapped my finances and a bit of my confidence.
损失的时间侵蚀掉我的钱和一点信心。
Chinese manufacturers, meanwhile, are keen to see the U. S. emerge from a housing crisis that has sapped spending power.
与此同时,中国的制造商也迫切希望看到美国走出房市危机的泥沼,因为这场危机严重打击了美国国内的购买力。
AT& T said Wednesday it had stopped taking advance orders for the smartphone, as record demand sapped its inventory.
AT&;T公司周三说由于创纪录的需求超出库存,公司已经停止接受iPhone的预订。
Had not my new tensions sapped my already limited energy , I might still carry my studies successfully .
如果我这新产生的紧张情绪没有耗尽我那早已有限的精力的话,我就仍能搞好学习。
but no one knows of the mental malady which previously sapped her strength, and made her so easy a prey to the spoiler.
但没有知晓,是精神上的病恙消耗着她的力气,令其对于打击如此得不堪一击。
True, he had been taking nourishment, but the work the doctors had been doing on him had just about sapped his remaining vitality.
他一直在吃营养品,这是事实,但是医生们在他身上所作的一切努力只是在榨取他残留的活力。
His friends believed, no matter what the actual cause of death, that between them, the KGB and the SIS had sapped his will to live.
他的朋友认为,无论真正的死因如何,是克格勃和秘密情报局联手抹尽了沃尔芬登对生的渴望。
We are in the last laps of this race so please do not let your strength be sapped.
我们正在这场比赛的最后几圈,所以不要耗尽你的力量。
THE dismal labour market has not sapped the government's ardour for welfare reform, nor that of voters.
惨淡的就业市场没有浇灭政府和选举人对福利改革的热情。
This is often why people are sapped by mid-afternoon.
这就是通常人们半下午元气大伤的原因所在。
It's like having the energy sapped out of a muscle without the health benefits of exercise.
这就像肌肉的能量被渐渐损耗却没有用在对身体有益的锻炼上。
One gets the feeling that it is a strange echo of the real language, sapped of any vitality.
人们对这种真实的语言有一种奇怪的感觉,活力不再。
The very success of many parts of the world in limiting population has sapped donors' enthusiasm.
正是许多国家有效地控制了人口的增长使得捐赠者热情减退。
An obsessive concern with the hereafter sapped their will to take practical steps that could have made their lives more bearable.
因沉迷于来世,他们的意志消磨殆尽,无意采取切实行动去改善不堪的生活。
The growing bank failures have sapped billions of dollars out of the deposit insurance fund.
日益增长的银行倒闭已消耗了数亿万美元存款保险基金。
David said, "Day and night your hand was heavy upon me, my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. "
大卫说:「黑夜白日,你的手在我身上沉重,我的精力耗尽,如同夏天的乾旱。」
Floods in Australia and another earthquake in New Zealand had already sapped chances of handsome profits this year when the tsunami struck.
当海啸袭来之时,澳大利亚的洪水和新西兰又一次的地震已经让今年获得可观利润的可能扼杀于摇篮。
The bitter wind sapped his remaining strength and , with little else to do .
凄厉的寒风消耗了他剩下的一点气力,生活在百无聊赖之中。
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.
黑夜白日,你的手在我身上沉重。我的精液耗尽,如同夏天的干旱。
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