词汇 | overachieve |
释义 | overachieve verb[ I ] uk /ˌəʊvərəˈtʃiːv/us to do more than is expected or be more successful than others: Some of our programs will overachieve; some may fall short. He is a graduate of a prestigious university, who likes to overachieve. Compare underachieve overachievementnoun[ U ] Her early life was marked by intense overachievement. overachievingadjective[ before noun ] He is an overachieving dot-com millionaire, and prize-winning filmmaker. Examples of overachieveoverachieve Thus, the policy implication that more stringent environmental standards should be used would still apply here when the target ground subsidence levels are overachieved. In both cases the reason is that overachieving the target produces little benefit, if any. However, her tendency to overachieve can lead to feelings of paranoia, with dramatic or comical results. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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