overturns

英 [ˌəʊvəˈtɜːnz]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈtɜːrnz]

v.  倾倒; 倾覆; 翻掉; 推翻，撤销(判决等)
overturn的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG （使）翻转；（使）倾覆；（使）倒下
  If somethingoverturnsor if youoverturnit, it turns upside down or on its side.
  1. The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall...
     卡车突然失控，翻倒撞上了一堵墙。
  2. Alex jumped up so violently that he overturned his glass of sherry...
     亚历克斯一下子暴跳起来，结果把他那杯雪利酒都打翻了。
  3. A dozen cartons of books had been overturned and strewn about the floor.
     十几个装书的纸箱都被倒空，乱扔了一地。
  4. ...a battered overturned boat.
     千疮百孔的倾覆的小船
• VERB 推翻，撤销（判决）
  If someone in authorityoverturnsa legal decision, they officially decide that that decision is incorrect or not valid.
  1. When the Russian parliament overturned his decision, he backed down...
     俄罗斯议会推翻了他的决定，他只好作罢。
  2. His nine-month sentence was overturned by Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Watkins.
     上诉法院法官沃特金斯撤销了对他作出的9个月徒刑的判决。
• VERB 颠覆，破坏（政府或体系）
  Tooverturna government or system means to remove it or destroy it.
  1. He accused his opponents of wanting to overturn the government.
     他指责反对派企图颠覆政府。
  2. ...a society where all the old values had been overturned.
     摒弃了所有旧价值观的社会

双语例句

• In the new context, the relation and interaction between elites and grassroots overturns.
  在新语境下，精英与草根的位格关系和互动结构，都发生了颠覆式的变化。
• The revolution and creation of Heidegger's thought of aesthetics lies in the following aspect: His theory which shows the harmony of subjective and objective overturns the traditional metaphysics so that his theory of art, truth and Language shows the new thought.
  海德格尔美学思想的革命性与创新性在于：它以主客相融的存在哲学颠覆了传统主客相分的形而上学，从而使得他在艺术、真理以及语言问题上都显示出了不同于传统的新的思路。
• With the pursuit of "love" of different varieties by Black people as the mainline, and with Black community as her characters, Morrison deconstructs and overturns the official White history.
  莫里森以黑人在不同历史时期对不同内涵的爱的追求为主线，以黑人群体为主角，对白人的官方历史进行解构和颠覆。
• In her novel she praises the physical feature of the female, acknowledges their self-jury and longs for the improvement of women's living conditions and overturns the history of maternal mythology.
  铁凝小说的女性书写表现为对女性身体的纯净赞美，对女性族群自我戕害的坦然承认，对母性神话的历史颠覆以及女性未来生存状态的美好憧憬。
• While the post-modern philosophers hold that the display of the relationship between language and gender offers completely new train of thought to the academic research, which overturns the traditional concept in a fairly large scale.
  在后现代主义哲学家看来，语言与性别关系的揭示则为学术研究提供了崭新的思路，对传统观念进行了一次规模不小的反观和颠覆。
• The famous scene where Jesus overturns the tables of the moneychangers is usually the focal point of Christian tellings of the story.
  耶稣推翻兑换银钱之人桌子的著名一幕常常是叙述基督教故事的焦点。
• Well, it's a special technique we use to get the kayak upright when it overturns.
  嗯，那是独木舟翻覆时所用的一种使独木舟翻正的特殊技巧。
• But when I go to warm my hands, My clumsiness overturns the light And then I stumble Against the tables and chairs.
  可是当我想去暖手时我的笨拙把光翻倒了我便绊在枱和椅上。
• His theory of ″ impersonality ″, the core of his aesthetic theory, retorts and overturns the traditional theories, but is also his contribution to the theories of English modernist novels.
  其中，非个性化和作家退出小说是乔伊斯美学思想的核心，这是他对传统的小说理论的反拨和颠覆，也是他对英国现代主义小说理论的重大贡献。
• But whatever the reasons for the relative happiness of bumblers, their existence in such large numbers in most businesses I have experienced overturns two tenets of modern management practice.
  但不管能力较低者究竟是出于什么原因过得更加愉快，在我所接触过的几乎所有公司里，这类员工都大量存在，这一事实推翻了现代管理学实践的两大原则。