dis·rupt
verb/dɪsˈrʌpt/
/dɪsˈrʌpt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they disrupt | /dɪsˈrʌpt/ /dɪsˈrʌpt/ |
| he / she / it disrupts | /dɪsˈrʌpts/ /dɪsˈrʌpts/ |
| past simple disrupted | /dɪsˈrʌptɪd/ /dɪsˈrʌptɪd/ |
| past participle disrupted | /dɪsˈrʌptɪd/ /dɪsˈrʌptɪd/ |
| -ing form disrupting | /dɪsˈrʌptɪŋ/ /dɪsˈrʌptɪŋ/ |
- disrupt something to make it difficult for something to continue in the normal way
扰乱；使中断；打乱 - Demonstrators succeeded in disrupting the meeting.
示威者成功地扰乱了会议。 - Bus services will be disrupted tomorrow because of the bridge closure.
明日公共汽车服务将因大桥暂时封闭而受影响。
Extra Examples- The bad weather has seriously disrupted supplies of food.
恶劣的天气严重影响了食物供应。 - They warned that climate change could potentially disrupt economic activity.
他们警告说气候变化有可能扰乱经济活动。 - I'm not going to let him disrupt my life any longer.
我不会再让他打扰我的生活了。 - Public transport services are likely to be severely disrupted tomorrow.
公交服务明天可能会受到严重干扰。 - The award ceremony was completely disrupted by a technicians' strike.
颁奖仪式被技术人员的罢工完全扰乱了。 - The refusal of the US to participate threatened to disrupt the negotiations.
美国拒绝参与可能会破坏谈判。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- badly
- seriously
- severely
- …
- threaten to
- attempt to
- be designed to
- …
- an attempt to disrupt something
- Demonstrators succeeded in disrupting the meeting.
- disrupt something (business) to cause significant change in an industry or market by means of innovation (= new ideas or methods)
通过创新（=新想法或方法）在行业或市场中引起重大变化 - Our radical new printing technology is disrupting traditional manufacturing.
我们全新的印刷技术正在颠覆传统制造业。
- Our radical new printing technology is disrupting traditional manufacturing.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin disrupt- ‘broken apart’, from the verb disrumpere.