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单词 overextend
释义
overextend
verb[IorT]
uk
/ˌəʊvərɪkˈstend/us
FINANCE
tospendtoo muchmoney, orborrowmoremoneythan you canpayback:
It is asadfactthat manypeopleoverextendedtheirmortgagecommitmentsand nowfacedifficulties.
overextend yourselfBorrowers overextend themselves in refinancing tocoverunforeseenexpenses.
totryto do moreworkor otheractivitiesthan you canmanage:
overextend yourselfThefearoffailurecanleadyoungpeopleto overextend themselves.
Herejectsopportunitiesthat hethinkswould overextend the firm'sresources.
(Definition ofoverextendfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoverextend

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The procedure was repeated until the child overextended four words or until the experimenter ran through the eight-item stimulus set.
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Unexpectedly, results indicated that apple was overextended much more often than dog.
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Twenty-two children were observed tooverextendan objective form for a nominative form.
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Twenty-two of these 27 children were observed tooverextendan objective pronoun for a nominative pronoun at least once.
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Nonetheless, children in all age groups (even four-year-olds) did at timesoverextendin comprehension, on a task for which demands to overextend were minimized.
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As is usual in such times, many overextended themselves.
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A third motivation for overextending based on shape may be that children treat certain words as if they are classifiers.
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The two children who overextended they, 13 and 28, were not observed tooverextendthem for they at all (column 3).
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The first is that his actually does get overextended.
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If he has enough retrieval strength to be overextended for she, then it should be more resistant to the overextension of him and his.
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It was plausible that children wouldoverextenda known label more often to similar than to dissimilar new objects.
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The accusative (acc) postposition o is overextended much less frequently.
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The ground floor seems rather small and overextended in comparison to the rest of the building.
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At risk of overextending the image : the rooms are getting smokier, while some shop dummies are acquiring a life of their own.
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In other words, with a limited vocabulary, children mightoverextendsimply to cover gaps in their lexical knowledge.
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