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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A way to eliminate the transient overreach of CVT
  一种消除CVT暂态超越的新方法
• The people who sustain the worst losses are usually those who overreach.
  不自量力者往往摔得最惨。
• 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。
• 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。