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
- 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。 - '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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - So long as host countries are realistic about their citizens 'mix of affiliations and China does not overreach in defending the interests of its emigrants, the Chinese diaspora is not a particular cause for concern.
只要侨居国对其公民的复合从属关系持现实态度，而中国在保护移民利益上做得不过分，那么华侨就不会是一个特别需要担忧的问题。 - 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。 - In the protection of HVPS ( High Voltage Power Supply), the transient effect of CVT time by the fall of voltage in fault is likely to lead to the transient overreach of the protection.
高压线路保护中，当系统发生故障时，由于电压的降落，CVT将产生暂态效应，可能引起正方向距离保护的暂态超越。 - 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。 - 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。