the act of doing deliberate damage to equipment, transport, machines, etc. to prevent sb from using them, or to protest about sth 蓄意破坏；阴谋破坏◆an act of industrial sabotage 工业破坏活动◆They blamed the problems on sabotage by strikers. 他们把这些问题归咎於罢工者的蓄意破坏。
the act of deliberately spoiling sth in order to prevent it from being successful 阻碍；捣乱