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
- 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 - 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。 - 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。 - A way to eliminate the transient overreach of CVT
一种消除CVT暂态超越的新方法 - My coach says I tend to overreach with my arms because my hips are late in rotating.
我的教练说我就是这样,因为我的髋转得有些晚。 - The company had overreached itself and made unwise investments
这家公司不自量力地轻率投资。 - 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。 - '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。 - 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;