sabotage

1. V-T If a machine, railway line, or bridge is sabotaged, it is deliberately damaged or destroyed, for example, in a war or as a protest. 蓄意破壞[usu passive]

The main pipeline supplying water was sabotaged by rebels. 主供水管道被叛亂分子故意破壞了。

2. N-UNCOUNT Sabotage is also a noun. 蓄意的破壞

The bombing was a spectacular act of sabotage. 這次爆炸是一次驚人的蓄意破壞行為。

3. V-T If someone sabotages a plan or a meeting, they deliberately prevent it from being successful. 阻撓

He accused the opposition of doing everything they could to sabotage the election. 他指責(zé)反對派正在竭盡全力阻撓選舉的進(jìn)行。