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overloaded

/verb oh-ver-lohd; noun oh-ver-lohd/US // verb ˌoʊ vərˈloʊd; noun ˈoʊ vərˌloʊd //

超载,超负荷,过载,超载的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to load to excess; overburden: Don't overload the raft or it will sink.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an excessive load.

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Examples

  • In 2017, the Charleston Gazette-Mail won a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for revealing how the pharmaceutical industry was, in essence, poisoning West Virginia communities by shipping them an astonishing overload of opioid pills.

  • Birds and fish form groups that move chaotically in the presence of a predator, giving it “cognitive overload,” says Randy Olson, who builds computer models of predator and prey behavior at Michigan State University.

  • I've chalked it up to the self-absorption that creeps into people as they age, coupled with modern content overload that has mutilated our attention spans.

  • It was developed before our modern understanding of stress overload.

  • Our technique is to switch off stress overload by using a controlled burst of anger to help the brain exert better emotional control and allow emotions to flow rather than become chronic and toxic.

  • They provided email addresses, phone numbers, and Twitter handles to get in touch, with cell service overloaded.

  • They unplugged their cellphones from overloaded outlets so a girl with cerebral palsy could recharge her wheelchair.

  • The books were “diffuse, overloaded with minute and often irrelevant observation.”

  • Some sentences are so overloaded with adjectives and ten-cent words that they lose all meaning.

  • Another problem: Those additions are also overloaded with sodium.

  • This is the fifth day in succession that I have come home late with an overloaded stomach.

  • These ladies were so overloaded with gold, pearls, and diamonds, that they really resembled beasts of burden.

  • Up, and all the morning very busy with multitude of clients, till my head began to be overloaded.

  • The whole is quieter, simpler, less overloaded with ingenious accessories.

  • Even the severest form may become vulgar when overloaded with ornament, and with the reign of Louis XV.