overturn的中文翻譯是什麼意思

overturn

US/ˌoʊvərˈtɜːrn/
UK/ˌəʊvəˈtɜːn/

vt.& vi. (使)翻倒

vt. 使垮臺,推翻; 撤銷(判決等)

overturn柯林斯釋義

V-ERG(使)翻轉;(使)傾覆;(使)倒下

If something overturns or if you overturn it, it turns upside down or on its side.

  • The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall...

    卡車突然失控,翻倒撞上了一堵牆。

  • Alex jumped up so violently that he overturned his glass of sherry...

    亞歷克斯一下子暴跳起來,結果把他那杯雪利酒都打翻了。

VERB推翻,撤銷(判決)

If someone in authority overturns a legal decision, they officially decide that that decision is incorrect or not valid.

  • When the Russian parliament overturned his decision, he backed down...

    俄羅斯議會推翻了他的決定,他只好作罷。

  • His nine-month sentence was overturned by Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Watkins.

    上訴法院法官沃特金斯撤銷了對他作出的9個月徒刑的判決。

VERB顛覆,破壞(政府或體系)

To overturn a government or system means to remove it or destroy it.

  • He accused his opponents of wanting to overturn the government.

    他指責反對派企圖顛覆政府。

  • ...a society where all the old values had been overturned.

    摒棄了所有舊價值觀的社會

overturn英文釋義

Noun

1. the act of upsetting something;

  • he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed

2. an improbable and unexpected victory;

  • the biggest upset since David beat Goliath

Verb

1. turn from an upright or normal position;

  • The big vase overturned
  • The canoe tumped over

2. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position;

  • The cat knocked over the flower vase
  • the clumsy customer turned over the vase
  • he tumped over his beer

3. rule against;

  • The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill

4. cause the downfall of; of rulers;

  • The Czar was overthrown
  • subvert the ruling class

5. annul by recalling or rescinding;

  • He revoked the ban on smoking
  • lift an embargo
  • vacate a death sentence

6. change radically;

  • E-mail revolutionized communication in academe

overturn場景例句

We have been pressed by the Three Mountains for years and we overturn it at last.

我們過去被三座大山壓迫了幾十年,今天終於把它推倒了.

THERE never was such an overturn in this world.

這世界上還從來沒有過如此希望落空的事.

We saw the canoe overturn, throwing its passengers into the water.

我們看到獨木舟傾覆了, 把上面的乘客掀入水中.

Their cunning plot is to overturn our government . It is of the thinnest.

他們的陰謀是想翻天. 這是顯而易見的.

Since then, economists have vied with each other to overturn this orthodoxy.

自此之後, 經濟學家就開始爭相顛覆這個傳統理論.

查看更多例句

overturn詞性變形

overturnsoverturnedoverturning