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。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deliberate
- economic
- industrial
- …
- attempt
- attack
- campaign
- …
- sabotage of
- an act of sabotage
the act of preventing something from being successful or being achieved, especially deliberately 故意妨碍；捣乱；刻意阻碍 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’.