Overstrain

(noun.) too much strain.

(verb.) strain excessively; 'He overextended himself when he accepted the additional assignment'.

欧内斯廷编辑

• I must see she does not overstrain herself. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• You will not press these overstrained opinions of yours, so far, as to throw any obstacle in my way? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The shock to my already overstrained nervous system was terrible in the extreme, and with a superhuman effort I strove to break my awful bonds. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• By the second and third centuries A.D. the overtaxed and overstrained imperial machine was already staggering towards its downfall. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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