overturn

释义

vt.& vi.（使）翻倒vt.使垮台，推翻; 撤销（判决等）

词态变化

第三人称单数 :   overturns ; 过去式 :   overturned ; 过去分词 :   overturned ; 现在分词 :   overturning ;

实用场景例句

The truck lost control, overturned violently, and collided with a concrete barrier.

卡车失去控制，猛烈翻倒，并撞上了一道混凝土屏障。

金山词霸

The sudden leap Alex made caused his sherry glass to overturn with a loud clatter.

亚历克斯突然的猛跳导致他的雪利酒杯哐当一声翻倒了。

金山词霸

The president refused to overturn the court's ruling despite political pressure.

总统尽管面临政治压力，仍拒绝推翻法院的裁决。

金山词霸

The Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Watkins decided to overturn his nine-month sentence.

上诉法院法官沃特金斯决定撤销对他作出的9个月徒刑的判决。

金山词霸

The opposing faction faced accusations of plotting to overturn the current government.

反对派面临密谋颠覆现任政府的指控。

金山词霸

A society that chose to overturn every age-old conviction.

一个决定推翻所有古老信念的社会。

金山词霸

She turned around suddenly, overturning the vase on the table.

她突然转身，打翻了桌上的花瓶。

金山词霸

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

我们过去被三座大山压迫了几十年,今天终于把它推倒了.

期刊摘选

THERE never was such an overturn in this world.

这世界上还从来没有过如此希望落空的事.

英汉文学 - 金银岛

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

我们看到独木舟倾覆了, 把上面的乘客掀入水中.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

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

他们的阴谋是想翻天. 这是显而易见的.

期刊摘选

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

自此之后, 经济学家就开始争相颠覆这个传统理论.

期刊摘选

It will submerge nearby towns and overturn the mountains in its course.

它会在途中淹没了城镇,倾覆了山脉.

期刊摘选

Septimus wants to overturn the old society, and build up a new world.

于是,他要推翻旧社会, 建立充满爱,充满美的新世界.

期刊摘选

Medicare has said that it cannot overturn its decision without new evidence.

医疗保险方面指出如果没有新的证据,将不会推翻自己的决定.

期刊摘选

Parliamentary sovereignty contrasts with notions of judicial review, where a court may overturn legislation deemed unconstitutional.

议会主权与司法审查的观念背返, 因为法院可以认立法为违宪而将其撤销.

期刊摘选

This boat is easy to overturn because its shape is unreasonable.

这只船容易颠覆,因为它造型不合理.

期刊摘选

To overturn Judge Walker's ruling, a court would have to find a flaw in his logic.

想要推翻沃克法官的裁定, 上诉法庭就一定要从他的逻辑链条中找到一个缺口.

期刊摘选

Yet even the political overturn was not so revolutionary as one might suppose.

即使政治上的颠覆也不如人们可能想象的那样具有革命性.

期刊摘选

The defendant who hopes to overturn a guilty verdict must usually appeal.

希望推翻陪审团有罪裁决的被告人通常必须上诉.

期刊摘选

I will overturn the pies as required.

我将按照要求把馅饼翻个个儿.

期刊摘选

An attempt to overturn the government was made.

人们试图推翻这个政府.

期刊摘选

They planned to overturn the government.

他们计划推翻政府.

期刊摘选

真题例句

On the overturned provisions the majority held the congress had deliberately.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

In Arizona v.United States,the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona's controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

In a rare unanimous ruling, the US Supreme Court has overturned the corruption conviction of a former Virginia governor, Robert McDonnell.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

英英释义

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"