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

• In this vision of the future, American saving would rise as overstretched borrowers repaid their debts.
  在这种对未来的设想中，随着透支过度的贷款者偿还其债务，美国的储蓄会增加。
• The news comes as some economists question the efficacy of these measures in putting the country on a sustainable growth path that relies less on overstretched western demand for cheap Chinese exports.
  这一消息公布之际，适逢一些经济学家对这些措施的效力提出了质疑，怀疑它们能否推动中国进入可持续增长的轨道，减轻依赖西方对廉价中国出口的过度需求。
• Perhaps the market moves were simply a pull-back from overstretched levels.
  也许市场走势只反映了超买之后的回调。
• 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。
• 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。
• The study acknowledges that the UN peacekeeping force in Congo is severely overstretched but also criticizes the force.
  这项研究承认联合国在刚果的维和部队的战线拉得过长，而且对维和部队做出了批评。
• 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。
• 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。