英语释义

1. to pay too much to someone or for something
… the debate over whether organic foods are a smart choice for healthier living or a marketing tool that gulls people into overpaying.
— Kenneth Chang It took my husband and me an hour with a representative to figure out we were overpaying for insurance and unlimited data plans.
— Tanisha A. Sykes Be careful not to overpay state taxes.
— Carl T. Hall We are not overpaying people; we are paying people what the market demands.
— Renee Glover

2. to pay too much for something

3. to pay (someone) more money for a job than is deserved

片语

Overpaid target收购溢价

amount overpaid多付款项

Tax overpaid[税收]

ovpd overpaid多付

Ridiculously Overpaid荒谬地过高

overpaid taxes溢征税款

qubeneficialtity overpaid多付款项

overpaid aarise多缴数额

overpaid amount多缴数额

英汉例句

• Middle-paying jobs in the U.S., in which some workers have been overpaid relative to the cost of labor overseas or technological substitution, “are being wiped out.

  在美国，中等收入的工作，那些工资高于海外的员工或技术替代者的工作，“将会被消灭。

• They think Banks were overpaid for the risks they took. Issues were priced as much as 40% below market prices so stocks would have had to plunge before Banks would be out of pocket.

  可次级承销商也在抱怨分得的战利品没有随之增加，因为他们认为投资银行对自身承担的风险漫天要价——那时发行价格低于市场价格的40%，这样，在投资银行血本无归之前，股票市场就不得不跳水了。

• Wasn’t it the fault of barely legal mortgage underwriting, overpaid investment bankers and the intoxication of easy credit?

  贷款保险鉆法律空子、投资银行家暴利经营、宽松的借贷条件让人们沉醉其中，错误不都是他们造成的吗？

• When Rupert Murdoch wildly overpaid for the Wall Street Journal in 2007, it was the only American newspaper that had enjoyed reasonable success charging for access online.

  2007年，鲁珀特·默多克大手笔地买下华尔街日报时，后者还是美国唯一成功实行网上收费制的报纸。

• Is that really what we want-even what Hacker and Dreifus, who have no love for most university presidents, whom they think overpaid and mediocre, would want?

  甚至是哈克和德雷伊富斯这样对大多数他们认为平庸却拿了太多钱的大学校长没有好感的人，他们会想要这样吗？

• The customs shall verify and notify the taxpayer to handle the formalities related to the refunding of the overpaid part within 30 days upon accepting the application for duty refund.

  海关应当自受理退税申请之日起30日内查实并通知纳税义务人办理退还手续。

• Feeling that they had overpaid vastly for the work of green trainees, they began refusing to have routine work billed to first - and second-year associates (ie, lawyers who are not yet partners).

  客户们认为，他们给实习律师付费太多，现开始拒绝将常规律师业务交给只有一、二年工作经历的律师(即还不是合伙人的律师)。

• Rio overpaid greatly for the Canadian aluminium producer and the debts it ran up to finance the deal, just as the credit crisis hit, were nearly fatal for the company.

  当时，力拓为收购加铝多付给对方很多钱，而且正值信贷危机，它为融资而欠下的巨额债务几乎是致命的。

• As a result, too many lack self-reflection or self-criticism skills, meaning even those who are grossly overpaid give themselves outrageous bonuses.

  结果就是，太多的人缺乏自我反思和自我批判的能力。这就意味着，虽然得到的已然够多了，他们仍然觉得自己还应获取更多。

• The truth is that America’s long-run deficit problem has nothing at all to do with overpaid federal workers.

  事实是，美国长期的国家财政赤字问题单靠在联邦工人的超额工资支付问题上动手脚根本无助于是。

• Some teachers were underpaid, some overpaid and some had their names completely erased from the system.

  有的老师的工资发少了，而有的又发多了，还有的连名字都被从系统中删除了。

• Greg Dyke, the BBC「s former director general, has said his successor is overpaid and out of touch with his staff, on the eve of Mark Thompsonunveiling plans for cuts to the corporation」s services.

  在马克汤玛逊该宣布该公司的服务的削减计划前夕，英国广播公司的前总干事格雷格·戴克表示，他的继任者是薪水过高和缺少与他的工作人员的沟通。

• Mr Obama spent his primary campaign railing against oil firms, irresponsible mortgage lenders and overpaid bosses who export American jobs.

  奥巴马先生在他的初选中与石油公司、不负责任的房贷发放者及那些拿高薪却出口美国就业机会的老板们较劲。

• They are tired of the whingeing of overpaid financiers, especially foreign ones, and believe the economy has become overexposed to the banking industry.

  他们已经厌倦了薪酬过高的金融家——特别是外国金融家——的抱怨，认为经济过度受制于银行业。