Overcharge
[əʊvə'tʃɑːdʒ] or [,ovɚ'tʃɑrdʒ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a price that is too high.
(verb.) rip off; ask an unreasonable price.
校對:洛丽塔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy.
(v. t.) To fill too full; to crowd.
(v. t.) To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price.
(v. t.) To exaggerate; as, to overcharge a description.
(v. i.) To make excessive charges.
(n.) An excessive load or burden.
(n.) An excessive charge in an account.
校對:拉里
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Burden, oppress, surcharge, overload.[2]. Exaggerate, overstate, overstrain, overlay with ornament.
迪克整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Overload, surfeit,[See CHARGE_and_EXAGGERATE]
校對:沃尔多
解釋/意思:
v.t. to load with too great a charge: to charge too great a price.—n. O′vercharge an excessive load or burden: too great a charge as of gunpowder or of price.
錄入:特丽萨
例句/造句/用法:
- If his employer is a farmer, the final payment, together with a like overcharge, will fall upon the rent of the landlord. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The final payment of both the one and the other falls altogether upon themselves, and always with a considerable overcharge. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The results of the first month's test showed an apparent overcharge by the Edison company. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Sloppy they left behind, relieving his overcharged breast with a paroxysm of mangling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The wits would perform the office of introduction with overcharged pomp and politeness, but they could not easily overstep his sense of its gravity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- My overcharged heart found the same relief, and I cried too. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I know not whether Madame had overcharged or under-charged the dose; its result was not that she intended. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- If fervent prayers, gushing from hearts overcharged with gratitude, be heard in heaven--and if they be not, what prayers are! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- There was no talking back, no dissatisfaction about overcharging, no grumbling about anything. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
手打:莉莲