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 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 - 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； - 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。 - Overreach a man in a bargain
在一项交易中以奸诈胜了某人 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - '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。 - 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。