It's a process of undoing and undermining that really eats away at the argument, we could argue, throughout the entirety of Areopagitica.

这是个论点开始慢慢被侵蚀破坏的过程,我们可以争论这点，贯穿整个《论出版自由》中。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's that backdrop--it's that sense of bureaucratized existence-- that defamiliarization has, to a certain extent, the ideological purpose of dispelling and undermining.

而这种灰色的机械的背景-,在一定程度上被文学带来的陌生化，冲淡了，减弱了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So at the very same moment that positing the nonsplitting of souls seems to solve the fission problem of duplication, it yanks the rug out from underneath the soul theorist by undermining one of the types of arguments for believing in the soul in the first place.

所以在为了解决复制产生的裂变问题,营造出灵魂的不分割性时，也侵蚀了一开始相信灵魂的存在的论据,从内部动摇了灵魂理论者。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And I, as president of ACLS, was one of the spokespersons for people who believed in the integrity of culture and who were accused of undermining cultural values, religious values, political values.

而我作为ACLS的主席，便成为一些人的发言人之一,这些人坚信文化的完整性,但有些人谴责我们侵蚀了,文化，宗教和政治的价值观。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选