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saboteur

noun
🔊/ˌsæbəˈtɜː(r)/
🔊/ˌsæbəˈtɜːr/
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  1. a person who does deliberate damage to something to prevent an enemy from using it, or to protest about something（为防止敌方利用或为表示抗议的）蓄意破坏者
    • Saboteurs blew up a small section of the track.有人蓄意炸毁了一小段铁路。🔊🔊
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    Oxford Collocations DictionarySaboteur is used after these nouns:
    • hunt
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    Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French, from the verb saboter ‘kick with sabots (a simple shoe), wilfully destroy’.