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单词 overbuild
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Definition of overbuild in English:

overbuild

verboverbuilt əʊvəˈbɪldˌoʊvərˈbɪld
[with object]
  • 1Put up too many buildings in (an area)

    在(某地区)超额建房

    investors overbuilt the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts

    投资者们在大西洋和地中海沿岸建房过多。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Stop whining because you've overbuilt in a drought-stricken area for sixty years.
    • In the case of installing temporary practices next to an already-developed site, he likes to overbuild.
    • On the flip side, the report calls Houston, Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta and Dallas to the carpet for a repeat pattern of overbuilding flat, sprawling topographies.
    • Paris is perhaps the opposite, betraying little of this tendency to overbuild - although traveling the periphérique outside the city center does, like so many cities, offer considerable evidence to the contrary.
    1. 1.1 Build too elaborately or expensively.
      Victorian architecture was considered gross and overbuilt
  • 2often as noun overbuildingBuild on top of.

    在…上面建造

    the preservation of the medieval field pattern by direct overbuilding

    用直接在上面建造的方法保存中世纪的田野格局。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Meanwhile, critics charge that the real causes of the floods are government efforts to funnel rivers through narrow channels and overbuilding on flood plains.

Definition of overbuild in US English:

overbuild

verbˌoʊvərˈbɪldˌōvərˈbild
[with object]
  • 1Put up too many buildings in (an area)

    在(某地区)超额建房

    investors overbuilt the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts

    投资者们在大西洋和地中海沿岸建房过多。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Stop whining because you've overbuilt in a drought-stricken area for sixty years.
    • On the flip side, the report calls Houston, Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta and Dallas to the carpet for a repeat pattern of overbuilding flat, sprawling topographies.
    • In the case of installing temporary practices next to an already-developed site, he likes to overbuild.
    • Paris is perhaps the opposite, betraying little of this tendency to overbuild - although traveling the periphérique outside the city center does, like so many cities, offer considerable evidence to the contrary.
    1. 1.1 Build (something) elaborately or to a very high standard, especially unnecessarily.
      过于精心地建造;(尤指不必要地)高标准建造
      overbuilding something will always be safer than taking shortcuts

      过于精心打造总比投机取巧安全。

  • 2often as noun overbuildingBuild on top of.

    在…上面建造

    the preservation of the medieval field pattern by direct overbuilding

    用直接在上面建造的方法保存中世纪的田野格局。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Meanwhile, critics charge that the real causes of the floods are government efforts to funnel rivers through narrow channels and overbuilding on flood plains.
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