overstretched

英 [ˌəʊvəˈstretʃt]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈstretʃt]

adj.  (系统、机构等)超负荷运转的，硬撑着的
v.  (使)勉强维持，硬撑着，超负荷运转
overstretch的过去分词和过去式

过去式：overstretched　过去分词：overstretched　

BNC.36475 / COCA.40887

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （系统、机构等）超负荷运转的，硬撑着的
  If a system or organization isoverstretched, it is being forced to work more than it is supposed to.
  1. The crime rate is rising rapidly at present and the police force is overstretched...
     当前的犯罪率急剧上升，警力不堪重负。
  2. Analysts fear the overstretched air traffic control system could reach breaking point.
     分析人士担心超负荷运转的空中交通管制系统会面临崩溃。

双语例句

• The households and governments of the big deficit countries, such as the US and UK, are overstretched.
  在美英等赤字庞大的国家，家庭和政府都已透支过度。
• Write-off ratios for credit card and cash card loans are at worryingly high levels as some of the overstretched borrowers who were allowed to renegotiate their debt last year are again defaulting.
  一些债务负担过于沉重的借款人去年曾获准与银行重新商谈债务安排，但随着他们再次无力偿还贷款，信用卡和现金卡贷款的销账率正处于令人担心的高位。
• But with its overstretched infrastructure, restrictive labour laws and notorious bureaucracy, it has struggled to find a role in the global supply chain of manufactured goods, despite its huge young population.
  但由于基础设施不完善、限制严格的劳动法以及臭名昭著的官僚主义，尽管印度年轻人口众多，但该国一直难以在全球制造业供应链上发挥作用。
• The crime rate is rising rapidly at present and the police force is overstretched
  当前的犯罪率急剧上升，警力不堪重负。
• The Asian crisis of a decade ago, when capital fled increasingly overstretched economies, now appears more a hiccup than a serious break in the long run of regional achievement.
  10年前，亚洲发生了金融危机，资本逃离趋于过度扩张的各个经济体。现在看来，这场危机更多是一个暂时挫折，而非亚洲长远经济发展的严重中断。
• Overstretched& the whole sector has reached its limits.
  超负荷&这一领域已经达到了极限。
• Analysts fear the overstretched air traffic control system could reach breaking point.
  分析人士担心超负荷运转的空中交通管制系统会面临崩溃。
• Yet while these agreements are proving a boon for overstretched Indian industrial houses and expanding Chinese state-backed banks alike, in other ways the story of the corporate links spanning these two Asian economies is rather less happy.
  然而，尽管这些协议为印度亟需资金的工业企业和中国扩张中的国有控股银行都是一件好事，但在其他方面，这两个亚洲经济体之间企业纽带的故事并不都那么皆大欢喜。
• In the age-old battle between creditors and debtors, weak sovereign borrowers and overstretched banks more often than not triumph over financially strong creditors.
  在债权人与债务人之间由来已久的战争中，弱小主权借款国和扩张过度的银行往往会战胜金融实力强大的债权人。
• Many fear that China's overstretched property market will collapse, leaving insupportable debts in its wake.
  很多人害怕中国过热的房产市场崩盘，留下一堆无法支撑的债务。