| 词汇 | overextend |
| 释义 | overextend verb[ I or T ] uk /ˌəʊvərɪkˈstend/us FINANCE to spend too much money, or borrow more money than you can pay back: It is a sad fact that many people overextended their mortgage commitments and now face difficulties. overextend yourselfBorrowers overextend themselves in refinancing to cover unforeseen expenses. to try to do more work or other activities than you can manage: overextend yourselfThe fear of failure can lead young people to overextend themselves. He rejects opportunities that he thinks would overextend the firm's resources. Examples of overextendoverextend The procedure was repeated until the child overextended four words or until the experimenter ran through the eight-item stimulus set. Unexpectedly, results indicated that apple was overextended much more often than dog. Twenty-two children were observed to overextend an objective form for a nominative form. Twenty-two of these 27 children were observed to overextend an objective pronoun for a nominative pronoun at least once. Nonetheless, children in all age groups (even four-year-olds) did at times overextend in comprehension, on a task for which demands to overextend were minimized. As is usual in such times, many overextended themselves. A third motivation for overextending based on shape may be that children treat certain words as if they are classifiers. The two children who overextended they, 13 and 28, were not observed to overextend them for they at all (column 3). The first is that his actually does get overextended. If he has enough retrieval strength to be overextended for she, then it should be more resistant to the overextension of him and his. It was plausible that children would overextend a known label more often to similar than to dissimilar new objects. The accusative (acc) postposition o is overextended much less frequently. The ground floor seems rather small and overextended in comparison to the rest of the building. At risk of overextending the image : the rooms are getting smokier, while some shop dummies are acquiring a life of their own. In other words, with a limited vocabulary, children might overextend simply to cover gaps in their lexical knowledge. See all examples of overextend 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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