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　

GRE

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
  1. 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。

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.
  1. 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。
  2. The company had overreached itself and made unwise investments...
     这家公司不自量力地轻率投资。
  3. The people who sustain the worst losses are usually those who overreach.
     不自量力者往往摔得最惨。

英英释义

verb

• beat through cleverness and wit
  1. I beat the traffic
  2. She outfoxed her competitors
  Synonym:outwitoutsmartoutfoxbeatcircumvent
• 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。
• The people who sustain the worst losses are usually those who overreach.
  不自量力者往往摔得最惨。
• 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。
• To do so, he will have to resist the temptation to overreach& the fatal mistake of many a Korean executive.
  为此，他得防止自己不要把摊子铺得过大，这也是许多韩国总裁曾犯过的致命错误。
• 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。
• Some will call this overreach.
  一些人会认为这有些过分。
• The company had overreached itself and made unwise investments
  这家公司不自量力地轻率投资。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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