scuppers

英 [ˈskʌpəz]

美 [ˈskʌpərz]

v.  使泡汤; 使成泡影
scupper的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 彻底破坏(计划、企图);使成泡影
  Toscuppera plan or attempt means to spoil it completely.
  1. If Schneider had seen him that would have scuppered all his plans...
     如果施奈德看到了他，那他的所有计划都泡汤了。
  2. If the Commission has its way, the entire deal will be scuppered.
     如果委员会我行我素的话，整个交易将化为泡影。

双语例句

• Are scuppers on the main deck effectively plugged?
  主甲板泄水孔是否已堵塞？
• And an empty bottle, broken by the neck, tumbled to and fro like a live thing in the scuppers.
  一只断颈空酒瓶在排水孔之间滚来滚去，倒像件活的东西。
• Chief Engineer: Plug the scuppers and report.
  轮机长：堵上排水孔并报告。
• We were both of us capsized in a second, and both of us rolled, almost together, into the scuppers;
  我们俩立刻失去了平衡，几乎是扭在一起滚向排水孔。
• In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discoloured to the hilt with blood.
  只有半分钟的工夫他已横越甲板爬到左舷的排水孔那里，从盘成一堆的绳子底下摸出一把长长的小刀，可以说是一把短剑，上面的血一直染到了刀柄上。
• Are scuppers effectively plugged and drip trays in position, both on board and ashore?
  船岸双方的排水孔是否已堵塞严密、集液盘是否已安置就位？
• Negotiations are continuing with Reebok chiefs reluctantly warning the former Newcastle man that they could take legal action and demand compensation, if he scuppers the deal.
  谈判仍在继续，对方警告如果哈曼执意不同意转会，他们会采取法律措施并要求赔偿。