Overturn
[əʊvə'tɜːn] or ['ovətɝn]
解释:
(noun.) an improbable and unexpected victory; 'the biggest upset since David beat Goliath'.
(verb.) turn from an upright or normal position; 'The big vase overturned'; 'The canoe tumped over'.
(verb.) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; 'The cat knocked over the flower vase'; 'the clumsy customer turned over the vase'; 'he tumped over his beer'.
录入:洛伦佐--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
(v. t.) To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.
(v. t.) To overpower; to conquer.
(n.) The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.
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同义词及近义词:
v. a. Overthrow.
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同义词及反义词:
[See OVERTHROW]
贝蒂整理
解释:
v.t. to throw down or over: to subvert: to conquer: to ruin.—ns. O′verturn state of being overturned; Overturn′er.
录入:玛丽埃塔
例句:
- They won't overturn the Constitution with our friend Brooke's head for a battering ram. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- My good sir, remarked Crispin, who had lighted a cigarette, you cannot overturn the whole complex civilization of the West in that manner. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Without culture you can knock down governments, overturn property relations, you can create excitement, but you cannot create a genuine revolution in the lives of men. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The wind strikes the front, but rarely touches the back of the plane, and so gains a great leverage that adds materially to its power to overturn the machine. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- An hour, a moment is sufficient to make him change from one extreme to another, and overturn what cost the greatest pain and labour to establish. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- I WON'T confine myself to four--eight, sixteen, two-and-thirty, rather than say anything calculated to overturn the Doctor's plans. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- And if he can't live there, he'll die there, sooner than he'll overturn the Doctor's plans. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Scarcely had the search commenced than the overturned cauldron was discovered, and with it the theft of the poisoned arrows. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Stage-coaches were upsetting in all directions, horses were bolting, boats were overturning, and boilers were bursting. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Also, in such a case, supports at the side kept the car from overturning. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- These traders upon religion he and his followers cast out, overturning the tables. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- And this from which we run away, striking out the light and overturning one another into the street, is all that represents him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- This almost overturns the trooper afresh, but he sets himself up with a great, rough, sounding clearance of his throat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
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