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词汇 bring sth to its knees
释义
idiombring sth to its knees(also bring sb to his/her knees)1 to have a very bad effect on an organization or group of people, so that it is difficult for it to continue its activity:A combination of bad luck and mismanagement has brought the bank to its knees.Remember that this country was almost brought to its knees by a series of strikes in the seventies.2 to defeat a country or its leader in a war:In World War I, people thought that we would bring the enemy to their knees in a few weeks.Under Bolshevik leadership, the people brought the Tsarist regime to its knees.
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