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单词 overdrive
释义
overdrive
noun[U]
uk
/ˈəʊ.və.draɪv/us
/ˈoʊ.vɚ.draɪv/
astateofgreatactivity,effort, or hardwork:
超速运转；加倍努力；过度操劳
Theofficialpropagandamachinewent intooverdrive whenwarbrokeout.战争爆发后，官方的宣传机器开始加速运转。
Thecastwasinoverdrive,rehearsingfor the firstperformance.全体演员正在为首演加倍努力地排练。
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  • frenetically
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  • plate
  • rev
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(Definition ofoverdrivefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

overdrive| American Dictionary

overdrive
noun[U]
us
/ˈoʊ·vərˌdrɑɪv/
astateofgreatactivity,effort, or hardwork:
The show’scastwent into overdrive topreparefor the firstperformance.
(Definition ofoverdrivefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoverdrive

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There was no evidence of impaired sinoatrial conduction, sinus nodal dysfunction or incomplete sinus node suppression duringoverdrivestimulation.
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The distinctive timbre produced reveals the probable use of anoverdrive/distortion unit commonly used for electric guitars.
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The general trend that is observed is that increasing theoverdrivefactor for a given explosive suppresses the inherent instabilities of the flow.
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Transvenousoverdriveatrial pacing was successful in one of 2 patients.
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The effect ofoverdrivepacing led to progressive attenuation of afterdepolarizations at short cycle lengths.
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The results show that as theoverdrivefactor is increased, stability is achieved and the most unstable modes are a t the lowest frequencies.
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An example of this principle is the clipping caused by overdriving a guitar amplifier.
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This rendition thus valued the sustaining quality ofoverdrivetreatment over the duration of the distortion indicated in the score.
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Once the diagnosis is established, the choice of appropriate pharmacological treatment, cardioversion oroverdrivepacing will depend on the degree of hemodynamic embarrassment secondary to the arrhythmia.
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Your mental arithmetic is inoverdriveas you calculate that the original purchase price of £12 million now looks more like just £158,000.
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He may be restored to health, but he certainly lost no time in going straight intooverdrive.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It will be exploited by the paramilitaries, whose propaganda machine will go intooverdrive.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
When it comes off the assembly line it has the colour, the windscreen wipers, theoverdriveand the silencer that the customer asks for.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
But as soon as a scandal breaks, public authorities go intooverdrive, opening all the umbrellas they can, with the primary intention of covering themselves.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
My imagination was put intooverdrivewhen my noble friend said that she had danced in discotheques until two o'clock in the morning.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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