[] 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于罢工者的蓄意破坏。the act of deliberately spoiling sth in order to prevent it from being successful阻碍；捣乱