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金钱作为代价，并且使得公众丧失对政府信任。

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

从外部来看，法国给这个分裂殖民强加沉重债务，削弱这个年轻国家。

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人们而言，逝去每一小时都消着他们力量，销蚀他们发现更多生还者希望。

Therapists and counsellors have sapped them of agency.

治疗师和咨询师已经削弱他们自主权。

It was nice to see somebody else get sapped for a change.

很高兴看到其他人因改变而疲惫不堪。

And it massively sapped Athens' power.

并且极尽雅典力。

The seedling zinnias and marigolds drooped and finally lay bent against the earth, sapped and exhausted.

幼苗百日草和金盏花垂下身子， 最后弯着腰躺在上， 筋疲力尽。

Shorty said: " I guess maybe he was sapped, lieutenant. I don't get it" .

肖蒂说：“我猜他可能被削弱， 中尉。我不明白” 。

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

但在过去一周左右时间里也发生几起丑闻，削弱家士气。

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。

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

如果你确被猪草缠住，请尽量避免让流干皮肤受到阳光照射。

" You'd have shot me. I've been sapped. It always makes me a little dark under the eyes" .

“你会开枪打死我。我被削弱。它总是让我眼睛下面有点黑” 。

He was dizzy with lack of sleep, and this devastating news sapped the last of his energy.

他因缺乏睡眠而感到头晕，这个毁灭性消息尽他最后精力。

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

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

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

所有关系能量都被争吵消，没有机会变得更亲密，因为多数谈话都变成尖叫。

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

随着时间推移，市中心活力逐渐减弱，人们在一天结束时逃离办公室，前往遥远家中。

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

它生命力不在纽约， 也不在芝加哥； 它不会被圣路易斯发生任何事情所削弱。

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掠夺一个伟国家财富，偷走骄傲人民生命，”彭斯先生说。

Oh, there was a real concern that city life sapped moral goodness and energy.

哦，确有人担心城市生活会尽道德良善和活力。

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不是食物，而是休息。虽然每天走路不多，狗们体力却仍然给沉重货载无情费着。