| 单词 | overreach |
| 释义 | overreacho·ver·reach /ˌəʊvəˈriːtʃ $ ˌoʊ-/ verb overreach yourself TRY TO DO OR GET somethingto try to do more than you have the power, ability, or money to do 试图做力所不及之事 SYN overstretch The company overreached itself financially. 该公司的做法超出其经济实力。 Examples from the Corpus overreach yourself• A new generation of bankers who were not around last time will be encouraging them to overreach themselves.• A truly tragic figure, Johnson had overreached himself.• Did we overreach ourselves trying to build them?• Then her eating of the red apple was premature; she had overreached herself.• Unlike Sting, Dylan and Bowie, Waits has never looked like a rock star overreaching himself.• He left, and waited for his opponents to overreach themselves, which they proceeded to do.• One lesson Athens had learnt, not to overreach herself with warfare in two theatres. Examples from the Corpus overreach• They failed not because they were too timid but because they overreached.• Then her eating of the red apple was premature; she had overreached herself.• Unlike Sting, Dylan and Bowie, Waits has never looked like a rock star overreaching himself.• Critics say the commissioner overreached his authority.• The Democrats have showed the same hasty overreaching in other ways.• Such a strategy is dangerous since inviting Kasparov to overreach, may also invite him to launch a devastating attack.• Did we overreach ourselves trying to build them? |
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