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

• '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。
• Once again, popular business books typically overreach on this front.
  再次强调，畅销的商业管理书籍往往会逾越这一界限。
• 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。
• 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。
• The people who sustain the worst losses are usually those who overreach.
  不自量力者往往摔得最惨。
• Research on the New Process Technique for the Star Wheels in the Overreach Clutch
  超越离合器中星轮新加工工艺探讨
• In response, the New York Times wrote that "if Mr. steffelin is going to emerge as a 'poster child' for anything, it will be as a victim of regulatory overreach."
  为此，《纽约时报》（NewYorkTimes）撰文写道，“如果斯特福林能够算得上是某种标志性的人物，那一定是监管机构手伸得太长的牺牲品。”
• 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。
• 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