overreach
英 [ˌəʊvəˈriːtʃ]
美 [ˌoʊvərˈriːtʃ]
v. 贪功致败; 不自量力
过去式:overreached 现在分词:overreaching 过去分词:overreached 第三人称单数:overreaches
BNC.35154 / COCA.21257
牛津词典
verb
- 贪功致败;不自量力
to fail by trying to achieve more than is possible- In making these promises, the company had clearly overreached itself.
这家公司作出这些承诺,显然是不自量力。
- In making these promises, the company had clearly overreached itself.
柯林斯词典
- VERB 令(自己)不自量力;使(自己)因目标过高而失败
If you say that someoneoverreaches themselves, you mean that they fail at something because they are trying to do more than they are able to.- He overreached himself and lost much of his fortune...
他的雄心太大,结果损失了自己大部分的财产。 - The company had overreached itself and made unwise investments...
这家公司不自量力地轻率投资。 - The people who sustain the worst losses are usually those who overreach.
不自量力者往往摔得最惨。
- He overreached himself and lost much of his fortune...
英英释义
verb
- beat through cleverness and wit
- I beat the traffic
- She outfoxed her competitors
- fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
双语例句
- I'm sure you would have as much pleasure as I in witnessing the conclusion of the fiend's existence; he'll be your death unless you overreach him; and he'll be my ruin.
我担保你亲眼看这恶魔的生命结束,会得到和我所得到的同等的愉快;他会害死你的,除非你先下手;他也会毁了我。 - Research on steady-state overreach of power frequency variation distance relay
工频突变量距离继电器稳态超越的研究 - Some will call this overreach.
一些人会认为这有些过分。 - To study the relation between CVT's parameters and transient overreach.
最后,论文还研究了不同CVT参数对CVT暂态超越的影响。 - The company had overreached itself and made unwise investments
这家公司不自量力地轻率投资。 - 'Because like all successful singers, I knew it would only be a matter of time before I would overreach and try acting,' he quipped.
他自嘲地说道:像所有成功的歌手一样,我知道我总有一天会跨行去拍戏,这只不过是个时间问题。 - So long as host countries are realistic about their citizens 'mix of affiliations and China does not overreach in defending the interests of its emigrants, the Chinese diaspora is not a particular cause for concern.
只要侨居国对其公民的复合从属关系持现实态度,而中国在保护移民利益上做得不过分,那么华侨就不会是一个特别需要担忧的问题。 - He overreached himself and lost much of his fortune
他的雄心太大,结果损失了自己大部分的财产。 - Already under fire for overreach, the Obama team is wary of anything that smacks of bigger government.
奥巴马政府早已备受做过头的攻击,他们对于给人以大政府印象的事情非常警惕。 - Maybe a Justice will get so over-confident and overreach so badly that even the corrupt Congress will have to do something. I am thinking that a new Twitter scandal might be just the ticket.
也有可能等到某个大法官自信过头和装逼刚愎自用时,堕落的国会就不得不对上下其手,比如上推特发一条热乎乎的丑闻什么的最靠谱了。