Overstock
[əʊvə'stɒk] or [,ovɚ'stɑk]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Stock in excess.
(v. t.) To fill too full; to supply in excess; as, to overstock a market with goods, or a farm with cattle.
整理:纳特
解釋/意思:
v.t. to stock overmuch: to fill too full.—n. superabundance.
埃迪校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The market is here overstocked both with commodities and with labour. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The Brazils, Portugal, Sicily, were all overstocked by nearly two years' consumption. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- They say--I have heard them say it with sneering laughs many a time--the matrimonial market is overstocked. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- To prevent the market from being overstocked, too, they have sometimes, in plentiful years, we are told by Dr Douglas {Douglas's Summary, vol. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
艾莉森校對