#자충수

• sabotage. /ˈsæbətɑːʒ/
[uncountable]
1-the act of doing deliberate damage to equipment, transport, machines, etc. to prevent an enemy from using them, or to protest about something
: 사보타주(적이 사용하는 것을 막기 위해 또는 무엇에 대한 항의의 표시로 장비, 운송 시설, 기계 등을 고의로 파괴하는 것)
e.g.)
an act of economic/military/industrial sabotage
  경제적/군사적/산업적 사보타주 행위
Police investigating the train derailment have not ruled out sabotage.
  그 기차 탈선 사고를 조사하는 경찰은 사보타주(의 가능성)도 배제하지 않고 있다.
They conducted a campaign of economic sabotage.
The fire may have been an act of sabotage.

2-the act of preventing something from being successful or being achieved, especially deliberately
: (고의적인) 방해 행위
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[Oxford Collocations Dictionary for students of English]
*Phrases
an act of sabotage

#자충수
• self-sabotage
• self-sabotaging move
• Self-defeating action
e.g.)
He always ends up in self-sabotage.
  그는 항상 자충수로 끝을 맺는다.
He tends to self-sabotage when under pressure.
  그는 압박을 받으면 자주 자충수를 둔다.
Quitting the project right before the presentation was a self-sabotaging move.
  발표 직전에 프로젝트를 포기한 건 자충수였다.
Telling your boss you hate your job in a meeting? That’s a self-sabotaging move.
  상사 앞에서 회의 중에 일 싫다고 말한 거? 자충수지 그건.
Yelling at his boss was a self-defeating action.
  상사에게 소리를 지른 건 자충수였다.

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• 자충수. 
1: 체육 바둑에서, 자충이 되는 수.
예문)
자충수를 두다.

2: 스스로 행한 행동이 결국에 가서는 자신에게 불리한 결과를 가져오게 됨을 비유적으로 이르는 말.
예문)
그는 실언을 해서 자충수를 두는 꼴이 되었다.