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

• Yet the comparison between Japan's overreach and Toyota's current difficulties is not entirely fair.
  然而，将日本经济的过度发展与丰田目前的困境相提并论并不完全公平。
• 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。
• 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。
• Already under fire for overreach, the Obama team is wary of anything that smacks of bigger government.
  奥巴马政府早已备受做过头的攻击，他们对于给人以大政府印象的事情非常警惕。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Some will call this overreach.
  一些人会认为这有些过分。
• 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。
• 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。”