V-T To discredit someone or something means to cause them to lose people's respect or trust. 使…丧失信誉
...a secret unit within the company that had been set up to discredit its major rival.
…为破坏其主要竞争对手声誉而设的一个公司内秘密单位。
discredited ADJ 名誉扫地的
The previous government is, by now, thoroughly discredited.
上届政府至今彻底名誉扫地。
These theories are now largely discredited among linguists.
这些理论现已大多受到语言学家的质疑。
The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.
此次投票被指有选举舞弊后被多方质疑。
The dot.com bust discredited most predictions of that sort and in the years that followed, conventional retailers' confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report weak online sales.
网络泡沫的破灭使大多数这类预测变得不可信，在随后的几年里，随着人口普查局持续报告在线销售疲软的情况，传统零售商对未来的信心增强。
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