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

• Overreach a man in a bargain
  在一项交易中以奸诈胜了某人
• Mr. Obama faces strong opposition on climate change efforts from many Republicans and coal industry officials, who say the proposal is a vast executive overreach and would devastate the economy.
  奥巴马在应对气候变化方面面临来自很多共和党人及煤炭行业高管的强烈反对，他们声称该提议属于巨大的过分行政干预，将会破坏经济发展。
• Some will call this overreach.
  一些人会认为这有些过分。
• '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。
• America's mistake has been to disdain multilateralism and to overreach itself.
  美国的错误在于摒弃了多边主义，且不自量力。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• And they were back a few weeks ago to counter a president who was failing to deliver and, more importantly, was seeking to overreach on legal and other matters.
  他们于几周前再次起义，抗议总统没能满足人民的诉求，而且更为重要的是，他们抗议总统意欲超越法律赋予的权力等事宜。
• 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。