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overreaching

/oh-ver-reech/US // ˌoʊ vərˈritʃ //UK // (ˌəʊvəˈriːtʃ) //

过度扩张,过头,过头了,过度追求

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
    • : to go beyond, as a thing aimed at or sought: an arrow that had overreached the target.
    • : to stretch to excess, as by a straining effort: to overreach one's arm and strain a muscle.
    • : to defeat by overdoing matters, often by excessive eagerness or cunning: In trying to promote disunity he had overreached himself.
    • : to strain or exert to the point of exceeding the purpose.
    • : to get the better of, especially by deceit or trickery; outwit: Every time you deal with them you wonder if they're overreaching you.
    • : to overtake.
    • : Obsolete. to overpower.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to reach or extend over something.
    • : to reach too far: In grabbing for the rope he overreached and fell.
    • : to cheat others.
    • : to strike, or strike and injure, the forefoot with the hind foot.
    • : Nautical. to sail on a tack longer than is desirable or was intended; overstand.

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Examples

  • So the example could just be being included to try to kneecap dodgy legal advice that suggests contract clauses are a panacea for US surveillance overreach.

  • Otherwise, every unexplained decision by tech companies about access to information potentially becomes fodder for conspiracists and, even worse, the foundation for overreaching governmental policy.

  • Apple having a controlling function around that seems an overreach.

  • Knowing when you’ve crossed that line would be very helpful, but studies so far have mostly failed to find consistent and reliable markers of overreaching.

  • One is that, in a study that tested dozens of possible ways of predicting overreaching, there’s always the risk that the one positive finding occurred merely by chance.

  • An equally universal phenomenon is imperial overreaching by large states.

  • By overreaching on health care, he has managed to achieve precisely the opposite effect.

  • Republican legislatures are overreaching with voting laws to try to gain partisan advantage.

  • In the film he dangles from the tree with only one foot touching the ground, which is an invention perhaps a tad overreaching.

  • “Afghan good enough” is the military phrase for limiting our objectives to what is achievable and not overreaching.

  • Cunning signifies especially a habit or gift of overreaching, accompanied with enjoyment and a sense of superiority.

  • If my neighbor uses his greater knowledge as a means of overreaching us all, it injures us and ruins him.

  • Avoid a second time overreaching thy superiors; for not another man of the Greeks would have easily appeased me.

  • I beg your pardon, Miss Lynne, but I really do think that you are overreaching yourself somewhat, and playing a dangerous game.

  • The Chinese merchants are frequently called scoundrels from their habit of overreaching when opportunity occurs.