| 单词 | saboteur |
| 释义 | saboteur (once / 17747 pages) n A saboteur is a person who makes a mess of a situation on purpose. You might call your little brother a saboteur for letting the air out of your bicycle tires, but you could be a saboteur in return by filling his shoes with cold spaghetti. Saboteur is a noun that is fairly new to the English language; it was first used in the early 1900s, and it refers to a person who deliberately destroys or obstructs something. It comes from the French word, saboter, which really and truly means to kick something with an old-fashioned wooden shoe. We can only hope that one day the word Nikeur might enter the English language to mean a person who kicks something with a sneaker. WORD FAMILYsaboteur: saboteurs USAGE EXAMPLESIf you call them traitors and saboteurs, you might as well call the Founding Fathers that as well. Salon(Dec 16, 2016) Tinder loves that the formerly skeptical now congregate at Saboteur, drinking coffee, trying anything and everything he makes. Seattle Times(Nov 17, 2016) Besides computer screens, the biggest saboteur for an aspiring morning person is the weekend. New York Times(Nov 18, 2011) 1n someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks Syn|Hypo|Hyper diversionist, wrecker sleeper a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal destroyer, ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to 2n a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader Syn|Hyper fifth columnist traitor, treasonist someone who betrays his country by committing treason |
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