overtaxed

英 [ˌəʊvəˈtækst]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈtækst]

v.  使用过度; (使)超负荷工作; (对人或机构)课税过重，多收税款
overtax的过去分词和过去式

TOEFL

COCA.33819

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使负担过重；使超负荷工作；过度使用
  If youovertaxsomeone or something, you force them to work harder than they can really manage, and may do them harm as a result.
  1. ...a contralto who has overtaxed her voice.
     用嗓过度的女低音
• VERB 对…征税过重
  If you say that a governmentis overtaxingits people, you mean that it is making them pay more tax than you think they should pay.
  1. You can't help Britain by overtaxing its people.
     向国民过重课税对英国于事无补。

双语例句

• If it is too difficult you might become discouraged, your concentration will be overtaxed and progress will be slow.
  如果太难的话，你可能会感到灰心，注意力消耗殆尽，而且进展缓慢。
• He had no ties at all in Hung Tung except his overtaxed pork business.
  在洪洞县除了课税很重的猪肉生意以外，他一无牵挂。
• It can also be used to improve performance by moving workloads from stressed out servers to less overtaxed ones.
  通过将工作负载从不堪重负的服务器移动到负载较轻的服务器，它还可以用于提高性能。
• Many people feel overtaxed and depleted, especially when traveling, and that really impacts our self-control and willpower, she said.
  很多人感到负担过重，筋疲力尽，特别在旅行时，她说，那真的会影响我们的自控力和意志力。
• The public school system suddenly found itself overtaxed.
  公共教育系统突然感到不堪重负了。
• In the face of increasing urban problems like smog-spewing congestion, high obesity rates, and overtaxed infrastructure, biking is an obvious solution.
  面临日益严重的城市问题，比如乌烟瘴气的城市拥堵、高肥胖率和负担过重的基础设施等，自行车无疑是最好的解决方案。
• One of the guiding principles of contemporary tax policy in the US is the notion that Americans are terribly overtaxed.
  当代美国税收政策的指导原则之一就是所谓的“美国人税务负担过重”。
• Control remains problematic because of ineffective border controls and overtaxed health-care systems, as well as inadequate biosecurity.
  由于边境控制的效率低下、卫生保健系统负担过重以及生物安全措施不充分，对禽流感的防控仍然存在问题。
• Lack of time is an obstacle for young scientists, but scientists are no more overtaxed than many professionals are.
  缺乏时间的锻炼对年轻科学家来说是一个障碍，但科学家们没有比很多专业人士负担更重。
• They believed that Britain was overtaxed.
  他们认为英国人的纳税负担过重了。