| 词汇 | overkill |
| 释义 | overkill noun[ U ] disapprovinguk /ˈəʊ.və.kɪl/ us /ˈoʊ.vɚ.kɪl/ much more of something than is needed, resulting in less effectiveness: 多此一举，适得其反 Should I add an explanation, or would that be overkill?我应该再解释一下吗，还是那样会画蛇添足？ Too much and unnecessary ado be up to your neck (in something)idiom bellyful binge carry/take coals to Newcastleidiom drown gush heavy-handed hyper immoderate immoderately inappeasable infest plenty pleonasm pleonastic plethora proliferation unwarranted weigh someone/something down overkill | American Dictionaryoverkill noun[ U ] us/ˈoʊ·vərˌkɪl/ much more of something than is needed or suitable: Running so fast with the competition so far behind might seem like overkill, but that’s Gardner. Examples of overkilloverkill Reviewers will inevitably complain that the notes swamp the text or that there has been editorial overkill, or that the notes are unnecessarily didactic. He ended up being trapped in an early informational overkill. The development of the chapters is quite systematic - to the limit of didactic overkill. Therpapeutic overkill or elegant management for selected patients at risk? The inputs chapter was somewhat better, although the listing of individuals and organizations supportive of the legislation was an overkill. Such a large dictionary is probably overkill, and in fact, it may even be the case that it uselessly slows down processing, by proposing extremely rare (although probably valid) words. Knowledge of psychrometric principles can be used to avoid false economy or overkill. But the rhetorical overkill could become counterproductive. One may wonder whether this accuracy is 'overkill', because small uncertainties in the data might cause much larger uncertainties in the computed results. It is also overkill, because changes in one region of the text are unlikely to affect the accentuation of the text in more or less distant regions. There is such a thing as overkill. The conservation lobby, which is worthy but sometimes a tiny bit fanatical, brews up feelings that lead to statements which are essentially overkill. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No disarmament agreement is going to reduce it below the level of overkill. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Bad design, overkill and bad siting, not standardisation alone, is the enemy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of the speeches in the debate made me uncomfortable, and contained an overkill of political correctness. 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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