| 词汇 | overdo |
| 释义 | overdo verb[ T ] uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈduː/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈduː/overdid | overdone C1 to do something in a way that is too extreme: 把…做得过头（或过火） After a heart attack you have to be careful not to overdo it/things(= you have to work and live calmly).犯过心脏病后，你得小心了，凡事都要适度。 Synonym exaggerate Exaggerating & playing down bloviate blow something out of proportionidiom cartoonish cartoonishly catastrophize fulsome go overboardidiom grandiloquent inflated make a mountain out of a molehillidiom make little of somethingidiom make much of somethingidiom make something of something/someone meal mildly minimization OTT protest too muchidiom underplay underrate overdo | American Dictionaryoverdo verb[ T ] us/ˌoʊ·vərˈdu/present tenseoverdoesus/ˌoʊ·vərˈdʌz/ | past tenseoverdidus/ˌoʊ·vərˈdɪd/ | past participleoverdoneus/ˌoʊ·vərˈdʌn/ to do, use, or say something in a way that is too extreme: They should get the attention they need without overdoing it. Examples of overdooverdo These facts are rather to be expected in a usage-based theory, according to which overdo and overdone are stored in memory as distinct lexical items. Thus overdo has uses that are hardly related at all to uses of do, as in (100). This means that overdone is sanctioned by being associated not with overdo but with something else. Student no. 1 tried to reduce the quantity of information processed by overdoing movements and developing exercises based on par ts of the piece. Li wants to correct these defects, but some would say that he has overdone it because he teaches students to shout rather than to speak. He overdid the liquid lunches. Stay active but don't overdo it. I think that talk of apocalyptic contraction in the world economy, and a condition of constantly soaring oil prices, is probably rather overdone. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all want cheering up sometimes, but the thing can be overdone. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These vast surpluses show that the contingency planning which is necessary in every political domain has been overdone in this case. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English But, necessary as consumer protection is, we must not overdo it. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It is overdoing it a bit to suggest that the only issue was cheap fares and that people understood it as such. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we overdo decrying our weaknesses, we may be in danger of provoking precisely the response we are anxious to avoid. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He overdid it on the spending front and by introducing many stealth taxes, including a shocking one that affected the tax treatment of pension funds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do not let the question of boats fog our eyesight with regard to this question, because we may overdo it with boats. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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