overwork
过劳,工作过度,过度劳累,过度工作
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Definitions
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- : to cause to work too hard, too much, or too long; weary or exhaust with work: Don't overwork yourself on that new job.
- : to work up, stir up, or excite excessively: to overwork a mob to the verge of frenzy.
- : to employ or elaborate to excess: an appeal for sympathy that has been overworked by many speakers.
- : to work or decorate all over; decorate the surface of: white limestone overworked with inscriptions.
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- : to work too hard, too much, or too long; work to excess: You look as though you've been overworking.
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- : work beyond one's strength or capacity.
- : extra or excessive work.
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Today’s work schedules, with their combination of “overwork and then no work,” in many ways mirror the conditions that preceded the reforms of the 1930s, Loomis said.
Despite stress, depression, and overwork, women still want to work from home.
One employee claims he was fired for raising concerns about overwork.
One delivery driver recently set himself on fire to protest unpaid wages while at least one other collapsed and died from apparent overwork.
This should cover everything from the furniture and equipment being used, to factors such as isolation, overwork and a failure to take proper breaks.
By then she had only three years to live, and was becoming frail from overwork.
Chronic starvation, overwork, disease, and freezing temperatures were as effective as the bullet, only slower and crueler.
Dickens died young, at 58, worn out from overwork, from the sheer strain of being himself.
This is a very dark frame of mind, consequent on overwork and the conclusion of the excruciating Ebb Tide.
Thyrsis came home beaten and crushed, worn out with overwork and worry, his heart black with rage and bitterness and despair.
It is much more probable that one of the bridges has broken through overwork.
Their lives are a lesson to a generation that fears intellectual overwork.
And we cannot all escape overwork however valiantly we fight our battle with non-essentials.