| 词汇 | overcompensated |
| 释义 | overcompensated past simple and past participle ofovercompensate overcompensate verb[ I ] uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈkɒm.pən.seɪt/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈkɑːm.pən.seɪt/ to try too hard to correct a problem, therefore creating a new problem: 过度补偿;矫枉过正 Chris is one of those small men who overcompensate for their lack of height with a larger than life personality.克里斯属于那种用夸张的个性来弥补身高的不足、但往往做过了头的小个子男人。 Effort and expending energy assiduity assiduous assiduously assiduousness be running on emptyidiom burn effort effortful effortfully elbow grease hamster wheel kill perseverance plough plough through something push put something in/put something into something rearguard action struggle swing Examples of overcompensatedovercompensated In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Deviations in a few cases are overcompensated by the large amount of distance constraints. As if aware of an unfashionable lack of intellectual toughness, the editor has overcompensated by throwing in a couple of heavy philosophical pieces at the end. Some larger metropolitan authorities will be overcompensated and other authorities will be undercompensated, so the net cost should be little, if any. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It means that if the chance event never happens, the plaintiff is overcompensated, but if it does happen he is under-compensated, sometimes to a very high degree. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, my group believes that in some instances the rapporteur has overcompensated for this and extended the scope of the directive far beyond what was intended or, indeed, desired. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English There was, however, no such queue when the pound was weak and farmers were overcompensated to the tune of £100 million per year on average between 1992 and 1996. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Maybe it was that he knew he was redundant, so he overcompensated. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. If the corrective factors were disregarded and the individual overcompensated, then an inferiority complex would occur, fostering the danger of the individual becoming egocentric, power-hungry and aggressive or worse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Secondly, the insurer is entitled to recover from the insured up to the amount which the insurer has paid to the insured and by which the insured is overcompensated. 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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