overreach

verb

1. 贪功致败；不自量力
   to fail by trying to achieve more than is possible
   1. In making these promises, the company had clearly overreached itself.
      这家公司作出这些承诺，显然是不自量力。

1. VERB 令（自己）不自量力；使（自己）因目标过高而失败
   If you say that someone overreaches themselves, you mean that they fail at something because they are trying to do more than they are able to.
   1. He overreached himself and lost much of his fortune...
      他的雄心太大，结果损失了自己大部分的财产。
   2. The company had overreached itself and made unwise investments...
      这家公司不自量力地轻率投资。
   3. The people who sustain the worst losses are usually those who overreach.
      不自量力者往往摔得最惨。

1. He overreached himself and lost much of his fortune
   他的雄心太大，结果损失了自己大部分的财产。
2. The company had overreached itself and made unwise investments
   这家公司不自量力地轻率投资。
3. The people who sustain the worst losses are usually those who overreach.
   不自量力者往往摔得最惨。
4. And they were back a few weeks ago to counter a president who was failing to deliver and, more importantly, was seeking to overreach on legal and other matters.
   他们于几周前再次起义，抗议总统没能满足人民的诉求，而且更为重要的是，他们抗议总统意欲超越法律赋予的权力等事宜。
5. In response, the New York Times wrote that "if Mr. steffelin is going to emerge as a 'poster child' for anything, it will be as a victim of regulatory overreach."
   为此，《纽约时报》（NewYorkTimes）撰文写道，“如果斯特福林能够算得上是某种标志性的人物，那一定是监管机构手伸得太长的牺牲品。”
6. Once again, popular business books typically overreach on this front.
   再次强调，畅销的商业管理书籍往往会逾越这一界限。
7. Mr. Obama faces strong opposition on climate change efforts from many Republicans and coal industry officials, who say the proposal is a vast executive overreach and would devastate the economy.
   奥巴马在应对气候变化方面面临来自很多共和党人及煤炭行业高管的强烈反对，他们声称该提议属于巨大的过分行政干预，将会破坏经济发展。
8. 'Because like all successful singers, I knew it would only be a matter of time before I would overreach and try acting,' he quipped.
   他自嘲地说道：像所有成功的歌手一样，我知道我总有一天会跨行去拍戏，这只不过是个时间问题。
9. Yet the comparison between Japan's overreach and Toyota's current difficulties is not entirely fair.
   然而，将日本经济的过度发展与丰田目前的困境相提并论并不完全公平。
10. So long as host countries are realistic about their citizens 'mix of affiliations and China does not overreach in defending the interests of its emigrants, the Chinese diaspora is not a particular cause for concern.
    只要侨居国对其公民的复合从属关系持现实态度，而中国在保护移民利益上做得不过分，那么华侨就不会是一个特别需要担忧的问题。
11. I'm sure you would have as much pleasure as I in witnessing the conclusion of the fiend's existence; he'll be your death unless you overreach him; and he'll be my ruin.
    我担保你亲眼看这恶魔的生命结束，会得到和我所得到的同等的愉快；他会害死你的，除非你先下手；他也会毁了我。
12. To do so, he will have to resist the temptation to overreach& the fatal mistake of many a Korean executive.
    为此，他得防止自己不要把摊子铺得过大，这也是许多韩国总裁曾犯过的致命错误。
13. America's mistake has been to disdain multilateralism and to overreach itself.
    美国的错误在于摒弃了多边主义，且不自量力。
14. You won't recover after your operation if you overreach yourself and try to do too much too soon.
    如果你过分性急，操劳太多的话，你手术后将得不到恢复。
15. Maybe a Justice will get so over-confident and overreach so badly that even the corrupt Congress will have to do something. I am thinking that a new Twitter scandal might be just the ticket.
    也有可能等到某个大法官自信过头和装逼刚愎自用时，堕落的国会就不得不对上下其手，比如上推特发一条热乎乎的丑闻什么的最靠谱了。
16. Some will call this overreach.
    一些人会认为这有些过分。
17. Beijing's desire for Shanghai to overtake Singapore as the world's busiest port, for example, is likely to have prompted SIPG to overreach when stating its goals," he said. "
    他说：“比如北京方面希望上海取代新加坡成为最繁忙的国际船运中心，以致上港集团在制定目标时定得过高。”
18. Overreach a man in a bargain
    在一项交易中以奸诈胜了某人
19. From this perspective, the worrying parallel for the right is not 1992 but the liberal overreach of the 1960s.
    从这个角度看，与右翼平行这种令人担心的事情并不是发生在1992年，而是在自由党作出过分之举的20世纪60年代。
20. Already under fire for overreach, the Obama team is wary of anything that smacks of bigger government.
    奥巴马政府早已备受做过头的攻击，他们对于给人以大政府印象的事情非常警惕。
21. My coach says I tend to overreach with my arms because my hips are late in rotating.
    我的教练说我就是这样，因为我的髋转得有些晚。
22. Research on steady-state overreach of power frequency variation distance relay
    工频突变量距离继电器稳态超越的研究
23. It shows that there is a steady-state overreach with the distance relay in the surpassed phase when two-phase short circuit ground fault with small transition resistance occurs outside the orientated region of transmission line.
    分析表明当输电线路保护区外发生两相短路经小过渡电阻接地故障时，两故障相中的超前相存在稳态超越现象。
24. Novel Algorithm for Overcoming the Transient Overreach of Distance Protection to put forward the approach to eliminate the transient overreach of CVT and validate it;
    克服距离保护暂态超越的新方法在此基础上，提出了利用多种傅氏算法相配合解决CVT暂态超越的新方案，并对其进行了仿真验证；
25. Transient simulation results show that this method can improve accuracy of fault location remarkably in using limited iterations and avoid overreach, underreach of distance protection efficiently.
    暂态仿真结果表明：这种相位修正方法，经过有限次的速代修正就可以较大地提高测距计算的精度，这对于距离保护中防止区内拒动或超越误动很有实际意义。
26. To study the relation between CVT's parameters and transient overreach.
    最后，论文还研究了不同CVT参数对CVT暂态超越的影响。
27. A way to eliminate the transient overreach of CVT
    一种消除CVT暂态超越的新方法
28. Research on the New Process Technique for the Star Wheels in the Overreach Clutch
    超越离合器中星轮新加工工艺探讨
29. In the protection of HVPS ( High Voltage Power Supply), the transient effect of CVT time by the fall of voltage in fault is likely to lead to the transient overreach of the protection.
    高压线路保护中，当系统发生故障时，由于电压的降落，CVT将产生暂态效应，可能引起正方向距离保护的暂态超越。
30. When applied to short lines, distance protection often acts improperly because of the overreach of the protection.
    距离保护应用于短线路或者系统阻抗较大的线路时，常常会因为超越而误动作。

verb

1. beat through cleverness and wit
   1. I beat the traffic
   2. She outfoxed her competitors

   Synonym:    outwitoutsmartoutfoxbeatcircumvent

2. fail by aiming too high or trying too hard