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
- From this perspective, the worrying parallel for the right is not 1992 but the liberal overreach of the 1960s.
从这个角度看,与右翼平行这种令人担心的事情并不是发生在1992年,而是在自由党作出过分之举的20世纪60年代。 - When applied to short lines, distance protection often acts improperly because of the overreach of the protection.
距离保护应用于短线路或者系统阻抗较大的线路时,常常会因为超越而误动作。 - Beijing's desire for Shanghai to overtake Singapore as the world's busiest port, for example, is likely to have prompted SIPG to overreach when stating its goals," he said. "
他说:“比如北京方面希望上海取代新加坡成为最繁忙的国际船运中心,以致上港集团在制定目标时定得过高。” - Transient simulation results show that this method can improve accuracy of fault location remarkably in using limited iterations and avoid overreach, underreach of distance protection efficiently.
暂态仿真结果表明:这种相位修正方法,经过有限次的速代修正就可以较大地提高测距计算的精度,这对于距离保护中防止区内拒动或超越误动很有实际意义。 - Research on the New Process Technique for the Star Wheels in the Overreach Clutch
超越离合器中星轮新加工工艺探讨 - You won't recover after your operation if you overreach yourself and try to do too much too soon.
如果你过分性急,操劳太多的话,你手术后将得不到恢复。 - Some will call this overreach.
一些人会认为这有些过分。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。