sab·o·tage
noun/ˈsæbətɑːʒ/
/ˈsæbətɑːʒ/
[uncountable]- the act of doing deliberate damage to equipment, transport, machines, etc. to prevent an enemy from using them, or to protest about something
（为防止敌人利用或表示抗议而对设备、交通等进行的）蓄意毁坏，人为破坏 - an act of economic/military/industrial sabotage
经济／军事／工业破坏活动 - Police investigating the train derailment have not ruled out sabotage.
警方调查火车出轨事件，没有排除人为破坏的可能。 - They conducted a campaign of economic sabotage.
他们搞了一场破坏经济的活动。 - The fire may have been an act of sabotage.
这次火灾有可能是蓄意破坏行为。
WordfinderTopics Social issuesc2- civil disobedience
- demonstrate
- hunger strike
- march
- occupy
- placard
- protest
- riot
- sabotage
- uprising
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deliberate
- economic
- industrial
- …
- attempt
- attack
- campaign
- …
- sabotage of
- an act of sabotage
- an act of economic/military/industrial sabotage
- the act of preventing something from being successful or being achieved, especially deliberately
（尤指刻意的）阻碍，妨碍，捣乱 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deliberate
- economic
- industrial
- …
- attempt
- attack
- campaign
- …
- sabotage of
- an act of sabotage
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French, from saboter ‘kick with sabots (a simple shoe), wilfully destroy’.