Corruption has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and sapped faith in government.

腐败问题以纳税人数以百万计的金钱作为代价，并且使得公众丧失对政府的信任。

The complementary reds and greens combine garishly a billiard table replaces the respectable piece of furniture in the family kitchen: a passion for gaming has sapped these people’s strength, and also their ability to connect with one another.

沉迷于游戏已经这些人的体力， 以人沟通的能力。

But it was not food that Buck and the huskies needed, but rest. And though they were making poor time, the heavy load they dragged sapped their strength severely.

然而，巴克和那几条爱斯基摩狗需要的不是食物，而是休息。虽然每天走路不多，狗们的体力却仍然给沉重的货载无情地耗费着。

All the energy for the relationship is sapped from arguing, with no chance of growing closer as most conversations turn into a screaming match.

所有关系的能量都被争吵消耗，没有机会变得更亲密，因为大多数谈话都变成尖叫。

But also we've had a couple of sort of scandals over the last week or so, which basically have sapped people's morale.

但在过去一周左右的时间里也发生几起丑闻，大家的士气。

I fired up the Ooni, fiddled with the dough, and was ready to launch a pie when my hunger sapped my concentration.

我打开Ooni烤箱，揉捏着面团，正准备烤个披萨，饥饿感却让我分心。

But for those digging through the debris, every passing hour sapped their strength and their hopes of finding more victims alive.

但是对在瓦砾中挖掘的人们而言，逝去的每一小时都消耗着们的力量，销蚀们发现更多生还者的希望。

From the outside, France had imposed a crippling debt on its breakaway colony that sapped the young nation.

从外部来看，法国给这个分裂的殖民地强加沉重的债务，这个年轻的国家。

Therapists and counsellors have sapped them of agency.

治疗师和咨询师已经们的自主权。

It just sort of sapped me of energy.

它just让我耗尽能量。这里的" sort of" 和" sapped" 在口语中常用来表达一种模糊的、逐渐消耗的感觉，直译为“just sort of”会显得不太自然，因此可以调整为更符合中文表达习惯的说法：“它渐渐地耗尽我的精力。”

Both of these elements will be sapped in a permissive culture.

这两种元素都将在一个放纵的文化中被。

The Castro regime has systematically sapped the wealth of a great nation and stolen the lives of a proud people, ” said Mr. Pence.

卡斯特罗政权系统性地掠夺一个伟大国家的财富，偷走骄傲人民的生命，”彭斯先生说。

Its vitality does not lie in New York, nor in Chicago; it will not be sapped by anything that happens in St. Louis.

它的生命力不在纽约， 也不在芝加哥； 它不会被圣路易斯发生的任何事情所。

If  you do tangle with a hogweed, try to keep the sapped slathered skin out of the sun.

如果你确实被大猪草缠住，请尽量避免让流干的皮肤受到阳光照射。

Did that conservative activist oppose any expansion of the social welfare state because she believed it sapped individual initiative, or because she was convinced that it would benefit only brown people who'd just crossed the border?

那位保守派活动家反对任何社会福利国家的扩张，是因为她认为这个人的主动性，还是因为她相信这只会使刚刚越过边境的棕色人种受益？

He was feeling sapped by bureaucratic drudgery, and hoped that exotic sights of " savages" living in " primordial simplicity" would rejuvenate his spirits, as he later explained in his travelogue.

觉得官僚主义的苦差事让疲惫不堪，并希望“野蛮人”生活在“原始朴素”中的异国情调的景象能使的精神焕发活力，正如后来在游记中解释的那样。

Scandals have also sapped investor appetite.

丑闻也投资者的信心。

Moreover, the large-scale philanthropic foundations of our day, and the U.S. foundations in particular, have in various ways sapped the sources of gratuitous goods.

此外， 当今大规模的慈善基金会，尤其是美国的基金会，已经在多种方式上无偿物品的来源。

Over time, that has sapped vibrancy from their downtown cores as people flee offices at the end of the day for far-flung homes.

随着时间的推移，这使得市中心的核心区域失去活力，因为人们在工作日结束时纷纷离开办公室，前往遥远的住所。

Billionaire computer magnate Ross Perot entered the race as an independent candidate, and he sapped votes from Bush.

亿万富翁计算机大亨罗斯·佩罗（Ross Perot）以独立候选人的身份参加竞选，从布什手中夺走选票。