surfeit

英 [ˈsɜːfɪt]

美 [ˈsɜːrfɪt]

n.  过量
vi.  吃得过多由于过量而厌腻

过去分词：surfeited　复数：surfeits　过去式：surfeited　现在分词：surfeiting　第三人称单数：surfeits　

GRE

BNC.22370 / COCA.26381

牛津词典

noun

• 过量
  an amount that is too large

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 过量;过多
  Asurfeit ofsomething is an amount which is too large.
  1. Rationing had put an end to a surfeit of biscuits long ago.
     定量供应很久以前就结束了饼干过剩的状况。

英英释义

noun

• eating until excessively full
  Synonym:repletion
• the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
  Synonym:glutoversupply
• the state of being more than full
  Synonym:excessoverabundance

verb

• indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
• supply or feed to surfeit
  Synonym:cloy

双语例句

• As long as you never want those separate, closed systems to interoperate you'll have no problem ( aside, perhaps, from a surfeit of IDs to remember).
  只要您根本不希望这些分隔开的、封闭的系统相互操作，您就不会有问题（也许，除了需要记忆大量的标识符之外）。
• Footballing mishaps are the latest in a series of catastrophes to be blamed on a surfeit of maleness.
  在这些不幸的足球赛事之前，也有一系列灾难被归咎于男性化过度。
• A surfeit of food makes one sick.
  饮食过量使人生病。
• The long-touted scarcity of radio spectrum in the future may be replaced by a surfeit of available frequencies.
  困扰大众已久的无线电频谱不足问题，未来将变成可用频率太多。
• It was an insufficient supply of top-notch equity within the banks, and a surfeit of lower-quality debt capital that was unable to absorb losses effectively, that allowed the financial crisis to wreak such havoc on the whole system.
  银行一级资本供应不足、无法有效吸收亏损的较低质量债务资本过多，才让此次金融危机对整个体系造成严重破坏。
• For the most part, people in developed countries live in a state of surfeit, not of want.
  发达国家绝大多数的人过著过度富足、而不是贫困的生活。
• But we may have had a surfeit of charisma and be ready for some nuts-and-bolts leadership.
  但我们或许已经见过太多的魅力型领袖，现在我们期待有一些脚踏实地的领导者。
• The voters are pretty sick of such a surfeit of primary sloganeering.
  选民们对于初选时没完没了地空喊口号的现象感到发腻了。
• In sum, technology has given us this surfeit of calories and dearth of energy expenditure.
  总而言之，技术给了我们过高的热量，又减少了能量支出。
• At this point in the post-bubble transition to deflation, fiscal rectitude and monetary stringency are a dangerous policy combination, as appealing as they may be to the virtuous instincts of policymakers faced with a surfeit of sovereign debt.
  在后泡沫时代向通缩演变的这个时期，紧缩财政及货币政策，是一种危险的政策组合&尽管对于面对过高主权债务的政策制定者来说，这样的组合或许对他们的善良天性颇具吸引力。