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
- And they were back a few weeks ago to counter a president who was failing to deliver and, more importantly, was seeking to overreach on legal and other matters.
他们于几周前再次起义,抗议总统没能满足人民的诉求,而且更为重要的是,他们抗议总统意欲超越法律赋予的权力等事宜。 - 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。 - It shows that there is a steady-state overreach with the distance relay in the surpassed phase when two-phase short circuit ground fault with small transition resistance occurs outside the orientated region of transmission line.
分析表明当输电线路保护区外发生两相短路经小过渡电阻接地故障时,两故障相中的超前相存在稳态超越现象。 - 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。 - Novel Algorithm for Overcoming the Transient Overreach of Distance Protection to put forward the approach to eliminate the transient overreach of CVT and validate it;
克服距离保护暂态超越的新方法在此基础上,提出了利用多种傅氏算法相配合解决CVT暂态超越的新方案,并对其进行了仿真验证; - Overreach a man in a bargain
在一项交易中以奸诈胜了某人 - America's mistake has been to disdain multilateralism and to overreach itself.
美国的错误在于摒弃了多边主义,且不自量力。 - 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。 - A way to eliminate the transient overreach of CVT
一种消除CVT暂态超越的新方法 - Mr. Obama faces strong opposition on climate change efforts from many Republicans and coal industry officials, who say the proposal is a vast executive overreach and would devastate the economy.
奥巴马在应对气候变化方面面临来自很多共和党人及煤炭行业高管的强烈反对,他们声称该提议属于巨大的过分行政干预,将会破坏经济发展。