英语释义

• rule against;

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

• turn from an upright or normal position;

  "The big vase overturned"

  "The canoe tumped over"

• annul by recalling or rescinding;

  "He revoked the ban on smoking"

  "lift an embargo"

  "vacate a death sentence"

• 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"

• change radically;

  "E-mail revolutionized communication in academe"

• the act of upsetting something;

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

• an improbable and unexpected victory;

  "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"

• cause the downfall of; of rulers;

  "The Czar was overthrown"

  "subvert the ruling class"

片语

throw down推翻；扔掉

fall overturn秋季对流

overturn ratio反转率

overturn device翻转装置

overturn pylon倾覆派龙

Overturn Accident翻车事故

overturn circulation水界循环

destroy破坏；消灭；毁坏

tip(Tip) （美、俄）蒂普（人名）

overturn center倾覆转动点

overturn reason倾覆原因

capsizal倾覆

turn-round周转；转向；归航準备；回车道；（态度等）彻底改变；（经济等）突然转坏

英汉例句

• sure, it could potentially overturn the way hollywood has done business, but as long as the studios are getting paid, why should they mind?

  当然，它有可能推翻好莱坞做生意的经营方式，但只要电影公司得到了报酬，又何必介意？

• it really doesn’t take many people voting together to overturn even the safest seat – it requires only a removal of apathy by the voters who decide the elections by not casting a vote.

  并不需要许多人一起投票来颠覆甚至是最安全的席位——仅仅需要消除那些通过不投票来决定选举的不投票者的漠不关心。

• russia is not justified in holding on to georgian territory or trying to overturn a democratically elected regime.

  俄罗斯侵占格鲁吉亚领土或试图推翻民选政权的做法是没有正当理由的。

• 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。

• shocks are still likely: for instance, the size of the bubble and scale of the bust may overturn historic relationships such as that between unemployment rates and credit-card losses.

  金融沖击仍有可能继续浮现：例如，这场金融泡沫和破产的规模，有可能会颠覆历史经验中的失业率和信用卡亏损的关系。

• in a joint report published today, they lay out findings gleaned from 2006 to 2008 that could overturn some current assumptions about the state of global farming.

  在今天发布的一份联合报告中，它们列举了从2006年至2008年搜集的一些发现，而这些发现可能颠覆目前存在的一些对全球农业状况的认识。

• mr tricoire warned that failure to overturn the ruling could set a dangerous precedent for foreign companies with technological expertise working in china.

  赵国华表示，如果不能推翻这一裁决，就可能给拥有科技方面技术专长的在华外企开一个危险的先例。

• overturn contracts, rip up the rule of law, if it appears that doing so will give them an electoral advantage.

  推翻合同，撕碎法制，假如这么做看起来会给他们带来选举上的好处。

• sadly, the world in which they live is far from ideal, and is likely to remain so;and violently seeking to overturn it is a recipe for misery all round.

  但是很不幸，他们的生存之所远非理想之国，并且现今这种状态很有可能继续下去，而想要颠覆它的这种极端想法，只会带来更多的不幸。

• gandhi never ceased trying to overturn these prejudices of western modernity.

  甘地从未停止尝试推翻西方现代化的偏见。

• although the whaling nations cannot hope to overturn the ban this year, they just might win a vote to make future ballots secret—a step that would heighten the drama at next year「s meeting.

  尽管捕鲸国在今年没有希望推翻禁捕令，但它们也许会刚好多获一票，使不记名投票可在未来发生 —这是一个会在下一年的会议中增加戏剧性的举措。

• the radicals tried to overturn johnson」s veto. however, they failed to get the necessary votes.

  激进分子试图推翻总统的否决，但他们因没有获得必要的票数而失败。

• just occasionally, the power of ordinary people can overturn the certainties of the experts.

  普通群众的力量能推翻专家的论断也是偶尔的。

• barack obama had pledged to overturn dadt during his 2008 election campaign, but action on the issue appeared stalled until his january 2010 state of the union speech.

  巴拉克·奥巴马在2008年竞选活动中发誓要推翻「不问，不说」政策，不过，他在2010年1月的国会年度讲话上才采取行动。

• 「it just seems unfair, 」 zachary said, pausing as he practiced writing lower-case letters with his mother, who is home-schooling him while the family tries to overturn his punishment.

  「这不公平，」扎贾里正在妈妈的陪伴下练习书写小写字母，他停下来说到。 扎贾里的妈妈现在在家辅导他的功课，并设法想推翻对他的惩处。

• mr sharif needs some grateful judges, to overturn a ban on his own eligibility for election, and made this one of his two main political demands.

  谢里夫需要法官来推翻一个禁止自己参加选举的禁令，他把这个做为自己的两个主要要求之一。

• one man's determination has helped overturn a rich reds history dominated by legends such as bill shankly, bob paisley, joe fagan and kenny dalglish.

  一个男人的决心帮助他倾覆了红军诸多传奇人物——如比尔-香克利、鲍勃-佩斯利、乔-费根和肯尼-达格利什——创造的光辉历史。

• 「now the theoreticians are going to redo their equations, and more experiments will be done to confirm or overturn it, 」 said indelicato.

  「现在的理论家将要重做他们的方程，并要通过更多的实验来证实或推翻它，」印第里凯托说。

• the upshot of all this is that the lessons in this book will stand the test of time—there is no danger that a new experimental finding will overturn them tomorrow.

  任何测试的结果都终将证明，本书课程能够经受时间的考验 ——无需担心明天一项新的实验发现会将其推翻。

• asked whether super-delegates should feel empowered to overturn the will of the voters expressed through pledged delegates, clinton suggested the nomination battle is more than a numbers game.

  被问及超级代表是否能够推翻通过宣誓代表表达的普通选民的意愿，希拉里暗示候选人竞争远非一场数字游戏这么简单。

• now, expect lots of breathless speculation: about whether mr ahn will challenge ms park; and about whether he can overturn national politics as his protégé did in seoul this week.

  现在，期待着太多令人紧张的喘不过气的猜测：安哲秀是否会挑战朴槿惠，是否会像他的支持者本周在首尔市长竞选中做的那样，颠覆韩国政坛。

• american amanda knox has scored a victory in her effort to overturn her murder conviction in italy.

  美国女孩阿曼达.诺克斯在努力推翻在意大利的谋杀罪中取得胜利。

• mr sharif needs friendly judges to overturn a ban on his eligibility to stand for election, and wants them restored.

  谢里夫希望恢复这些法官的职务，因为他需要他们去推翻一个禁止自己参加选举的法令。

• the opposition says these moves are part of an orchestrated attempt by the ruling party to overturn its first defeat since independence 28 years ago.

  反对派说这些举动是执政党策划行动的一部分，目的是推翻执政党在津巴布韦独立28年以来首次选举失利的结果。

• sopa would overturn a long-standing presumption under u.s. law that while internet players are certainly responsible for complying with the law, they’re not deputies in the copyright battles.

  sopa将会推翻美国法律体系中一个长期的推测，也就是当互联网玩家都遵守法律时，他们不应该在版权斗争中出现。