top-heavy

/top-hev-ee/US // ˈtɒpˌhɛv i //

头重脚轻

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : having the top disproportionately heavy; liable to fall from too great weight above.
- : relatively much heavier or larger above the center or waist than below: a top-heavy wrestler.
- : Finance. having a financial structure overburdened with securities that have priority in the payment of dividends.overcapitalized.

adj.unstable

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There is a particular focus in the magazine on attacking the United States, which al Qaeda calls a top target.
In the meantime, Epstein has tried to use his charitable projects to float him back to the top.
The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.
If so, he has his silence -- on top of poor judgment -- to blame.
“There is a heavy security presence but nothing has changed,” agrees Father Javier.
He came to the top of the stairs with a lamp in his hand, and wanted to know what the rumpus was about.
The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.
Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock.
The jagged top and spurs of San Jacinto Mountain shone like the turrets and posterns of a citadel built of rubies.