查询词典 overstretched

Richard Gowan, of New York University, notes that sub-Saharan countries have many wars but hardly any helicopters; traditional UN troop contributors, such as India, are close to the limit of what they can supply; some Western countries such as America and Britain are overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan; while others are reluctant to become involved in fighting, be it counter-insurgency or tough peacekeeping.

纽约大学的理查德·高万指出，撒哈拉以南地区发生了许多战争，但几乎没有直升机；联合国维和部队的传统派出国，如印度，已接近其所能供应的极限；而美英等一些西方国家则在伊拉克和阿富汗过度伸展；其它国家则不愿卷入战斗，无论是反叛乱还是困难重重的维和行动。

The 2008 modernisation strategy, written by Lieut Gen Stephen Speakes, deputy chief of staff of the US army, contains the first explicit and official acknowledgement that the US military is dangerously overstretched internationally.

2008年的现代化战略，中尉写的斯蒂芬斯皮克斯根，副参谋长的美国军队，包含了第一次明确和正式承认，美国军方是捉襟见肘的国际危险。

At the same time, America is overstretched militarily and environmentally as well as financially.

与此同时，美国的军事、环境以及经济都在超负荷运转。

Overstretch 在朗文词典的意思是:to try to do more than you are able to, or to use more money, supplies etc than you havee.g. an overstretched social services department

所以我想这里并不是讲老师超负荷工作，作者的意思可能是老师没有受过良好培训，因此没有能力做好一些必须要做的教学管理工作，所以作者讽刺他们"管事太多"。

On top of that, the capacity of an overstretched banking system to finance both the government's huge reflation and struggling enterprises as China's growth rate halves is in question.

更重要的是，随着中国经济增长率减半，融资过度的银行体系为政府巨大的通货膨胀和在困境中挣扎的企业提供资金的能力值得怀疑。

The Department of Veterans Affairs, responsible for caring for these wounded, was operating, for the first few years of the war, on prewar budgets, and is ruinously overstretched; it is still clearing a backlog of claims from the Vietnam war.

负责帮助负伤人员的退伍军人事务部在战前预算的支持下，从战争的第一年开始就一直在行动，其工作的超负荷程度是灾难性的；至今他们还需要解决越南战争的大量遗留问题。

Or scepticism that claims about the future that are based on scientific knowledge are sometimes overstretched and underplay uncertainties?

还是怀疑建立在科学知识基础上的未来预测往往有些夸大，并且忽视了不确定性？

These pretty superlatives, dropping glibly from the tongue, vitiate the taste, and create a kind of sickly delicacy that turns away from simple unadorned truth, and a deluge of false sentiments and overstretched feelings, stifling the natural emotions of the heart, render the domestic pleasures insipid, that ought to sweeten the exercise of those severe duties, which educate a rational and immortal being for a nobler field of action.

这些漂亮话言过其实，油嘴滑舌，败坏了品味，造成一种与质朴的真理相悖的病态的精致；铺天盖地的虚饰和极力夸张的情感窒息了天真的心情，使家庭的乐趣变得味同嚼蜡----而家庭的乐趣本应使人心情愉快地担负起能锻炼出充满理性力量的不朽人物的艰巨责职，使他们能在更伟大的天地里大展身手。

LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO - A new computer virus, feared to be the most potent ever, expanded its reach around the globe on Thursday, sending e-mail networks crashing and frazzling technicians already overstretched by a plague of computer bugs.

伦敦/洛杉矶－本周四，一种新的电脑病毒迅速传播到世界各个角落，此次来势比以前更加凶猛，致使邮件网络系统瘫痪，而本来已被电脑病毒搞得身心紧张的网络技术人员更加疲惫。

LONDON/ SAN FRANCISCO- A new computer virus, feared to be the most potent ever, expanded its reach around the globe on Thursday, sending e-mail networks crashing and frazzling technicians already overstretched by a plague of computer bugs.

敦/杉矶本周四，一种新的电脑病毒迅速传播到世界各个角落，此次来势比以前更加凶猛，致使邮件网络系统瘫痪，而本来已被电脑病毒搞得身心紧张的网络技术人员更加疲惫。

In the United States, chronic alcoholism and hepatitis C are the most common ones.

在美国，慢性酒精中毒，肝炎是最常见的。

If you have any questions, you can contact me anytime.

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