overstretched

英 [ˌəʊvəˈstretʃt]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈstretʃt]

adj.  (系统、机构等)超负荷运转的，硬撑着的
v.  (使)勉强维持，硬撑着，超负荷运转
overstretch的过去分词和过去式

过去式：overstretched　过去分词：overstretched　

BNC.36475 / COCA.40887

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （系统、机构等）超负荷运转的，硬撑着的
  If a system or organization isoverstretched, it is being forced to work more than it is supposed to.
  1. The crime rate is rising rapidly at present and the police force is overstretched...
     当前的犯罪率急剧上升，警力不堪重负。
  2. Analysts fear the overstretched air traffic control system could reach breaking point.
     分析人士担心超负荷运转的空中交通管制系统会面临崩溃。

双语例句

• The agencies say they are overstretched and underfunded and are appealing for more help from the international community.
  这些机构说，他们已竭尽全力，但是资金不足，他们呼吁国际社会提供更多帮助。
• Many fear that China's overstretched property market will collapse, leaving insupportable debts in its wake.
  很多人害怕中国过热的房产市场崩盘，留下一堆无法支撑的债务。
• Fiscal positions in the west were often overstretched when the global financial crisis erupted.
  全球金融危机爆发后，西方的财政状况常常过度紧张。
• Interest is growing in schemes to control the use of overstretched roads through charging-as already happens with trucks on at least some roads in Austria, Switzerland and Germany.
  人们日益倾向于通过收费方式，控制对超负荷公路的使用至少，奥地利、瑞士和德国的一些公路已经开始对卡车收费了。
• To rescue overstretched pension systems, for example, western societies are raising the retirement age.
  例如，为了拯救负担过重的养老金制度，西方社会正在提高退休年龄。
• Write-off ratios for credit card and cash card loans are at worryingly high levels as some of the overstretched borrowers who were allowed to renegotiate their debt last year are again defaulting.
  一些债务负担过于沉重的借款人去年曾获准与银行重新商谈债务安排，但随着他们再次无力偿还贷款，信用卡和现金卡贷款的销账率正处于令人担心的高位。
• Overstretched banks and global insurers are not the only things that are too big too fail.
  举债过多的银行和全球保险商并不是唯一大到不能倒的事物。
• In the 1980s and 1990s, overstretched banks regularly found themselves without money to meet withdrawals.
  在二十世纪八、九十年代，过度放贷的银行经常会发现自己没有资金应对储户的取现需求。
• Rising debt costs could force many overstretched homeowners to default and their lenders to foreclose.
  升高的债务成本迫使许多贷款期限过长者放弃履约，借贷者从而收回这些房屋。
• Overstretched& the whole sector has reached its limits.
  超负荷&这一领域已经达到了极限。