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

• The company had overreached itself and made unwise investments
  这家公司不自量力地轻率投资。
• '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。
• 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。
• The people who sustain the worst losses are usually those who overreach.
  不自量力者往往摔得最惨。
• Some will call this overreach.
  一些人会认为这有些过分。
• 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。
• Research on steady-state overreach of power frequency variation distance relay
  工频突变量距离继电器稳态超越的研究
• Transient simulation results show that this method can improve accuracy of fault location remarkably in using limited iterations and avoid overreach, underreach of distance protection efficiently.
  暂态仿真结果表明：这种相位修正方法，经过有限次的速代修正就可以较大地提高测距计算的精度，这对于距离保护中防止区内拒动或超越误动很有实际意义。
• 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。
• Beijing's desire for Shanghai to overtake Singapore as the world's busiest port, for example, is likely to have prompted SIPG to overreach when stating its goals," he said. "
  他说：“比如北京方面希望上海取代新加坡成为最繁忙的国际船运中心，以致上港集团在制定目标时定得过高。”