undermine是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. (暗中) 破坏; (逐渐) 削弱，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I spared no pains, indeed, in this piece of fruitless toil, and spent, I think, three or four weeks about it; at last find-ing it impossible to heave it up with my little strength, I fell to digging away the sand, to undermine it, and so to make it fall down, setting pieces of wood to thrust and guide it right in the fall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Dodger had a vicious propensity, too, of pulling the caps from the heads of small boys and tossing them down areas; while Charley Bates exhibited some very loose notions concerning the rights of property, by pilfering divers apples and onions from the stalls at the kennel sides, and thrusting them into pockets which were so surprisingly capacious, that they seemed to undermine his whole suit of clothes in every direction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was taken ill in the night- quite prostrate he was-in consequence of crab; and after being drugged with blackdraughts and blue pills, to an extent which Demple (whose fatherwas a doctor) said was enough to undermine a horse's constitution,received a caning and six chapters of Greek Testament for refusingto confess.
-- Have youconsidered what it is to undermine the confi- dence that shouldsubsist between my daughter and myself?
-- As the receding waveswept back with a hoarse roar, it seemed to scoop out deep caves inthe beach, as if its purpose were to undermine the earth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Scrooge's horror, looking back, he saw the last of the land, a frightful range of rocks, behind them; and his ears were deafened by the thundering of water, as it rolled and roared, and raged among the dreadful caverns it had worn, and fiercely tried to undermine the earth.
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