overturn
- v.推翻,撤销(判决等);倾覆;颠覆;倾倒;翻掉
- n.毁灭;推翻;垮台
过去式: overturned 现在分词: overturning 过去分词: overturned 第三人称单数: overturns
over- 翻转 + turn v.转动
verb
倾倒;倾覆;翻掉
if sth overturns , or if sb overturns it, it turns upside down or on its side
The car skidded and overturned.
汽车打滑翻倒了。
He stood up quickly, overturning his chair.
他猛然站起来,弄翻了椅子。
推翻,撤销(判决等)
to officially decide that a legal decision etc. is not correct, and to make it no longer valid
to overturn a decision/conviction/verdict
撤销决定 / 定罪 / 裁决
His sentence was overturned by the appeal court.
上诉法庭撤销了对他的判决。
overturn
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V-ERG (使)翻转;(使)倾覆;(使)倒下
If something overturns or if you overturn it, it turns upside down or on its side.The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall...
卡车突然失控,翻倒撞上了一堵墙。
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VERB 推翻,撤销(判决)
If someone in authority overturns a legal decision, they officially decide that that decision is incorrect or not valid.When the Russian parliament overturned his decision, he backed down...
俄罗斯议会推翻了他的决定,他只好作罢。
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VERB 颠覆,破坏(政府或体系)
To overturn a government or system means to remove it or destroy it.He accused his opponents of wanting to overturn the government.
他指责反对派企图颠覆政府。
noun
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- an improbable and unexpected victory
- the biggest upset since David beat Goliath
- Synonym: upset
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- the act of upsetting something
- he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed
- Synonym: upset turnover
verb
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- change radically
- E-mail revolutionized communication in academe
- Synonym: revolutionize revolutionise
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- rule against
- The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill
- Synonym: overrule override overthrow reverse
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- cancel officially
- He revoked the ban on smoking
- lift an embargo
- vacate a death sentence
- Synonym: revoke annul lift countermand reverse repeal rescind vacate
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- turn from an upright or normal position
- The big vase overturned
- The canoe tumped over
- Synonym: turn over tip over tump over
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- 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
- Synonym: tip over turn over upset knock over bowl over tump over
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- cause the downfall of;of rulers
- The Czar was overthrown
- subvert the ruling class
- Synonym: overthrow subvert bring down
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The21st century will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life .
21世纪将会颠覆很多我们关于经济生活的基础设想。
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Yet even the political overturn was not so revolutionary as one might suppose .
然而即使政治上的颠覆也不如人们可能想象的那样具有革命性。
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He stood up quickly , overturning his chair .
他猛然站起来,弄翻了椅子。
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She emerged from the overturned car with only a few scrapes and bruises .
她从翻了的车里钻出来,只擦破一点皮,碰了几块淤青。
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The car skidded and overturned .
汽车打滑翻倒了。
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Demonstrators turned on police , overturning vehicles and setting fire to them
示威者攻击警察,推翻车辆并将其纵火焚烧。
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The bus is said to have overturned and fallen into a ravine .
据说巴士发生翻车,跌进了峡谷。
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The earlier verdict was overturned on a legal technicality .
由于诉讼程序上的一个技术细则,原先的判决被推翻了。
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The court overturned that decision on the grounds that the Prosecution had withheld crucial evidence
法庭以检控方拒绝出示关键证据为由撤销了那项判决。
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His nine-month sentence was overturned by Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Watkins .
上诉法院法官沃特金斯撤销了对他作出的9个月徒刑的判决。
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The lorry veered out of control , overturned and smashed into a wall
卡车突然失控,翻倒撞上了一堵墙。
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Alex jumped up so violently that he overturned his glass of sherry
亚历克斯一下子暴跳起来,结果把他那杯雪利酒都打翻了。
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He overturned the conviction , saying the defendant was entrapped
他声称被告是被诱骗的,从而推翻了有罪的判决。
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Goodwin tried to have the court ruling overturned
古德温想推翻法院作出的裁决。
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Hundreds of youths rampaged through the town , shop windows were smashed and cars overturned
数百名年轻人在镇上横冲直撞,砸碎商店玻璃,掀翻车辆。
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A dozen cartons of books had been overturned and strewn about the floor .
十几个装书的纸箱都被倒空,乱扔了一地。
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Horrified commuters saw the lorry veer across the motorway and overturn .
惊恐万分的通勤者们看见那辆卡车突然冲向高速公路另一侧,接着翻倒在地。
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A racially mixed jury in Miami convicted Lozano of manslaughter , but an appellate court overturned the convictions .
在迈阿密,由多种族人士组成的陪审团裁决洛扎诺犯过失杀人罪,但上诉法庭推翻了该判决。
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We saw the canoe overturn , throwing its passengers into the water .
我们看到独木舟倾覆了,把上面的乘客掀入水中。
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Huge waves overturned the boat .
大浪打翻了小船。
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When a bird 's nest is overturned , no egg can remain intact .
覆巢之下无完卵。
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Ideas about " rational " economic man are being overturned by new ones from a discipline called behavioural economics .
有关理性经济人的思想就正在被一个新兴的、名为行为经济学的学科给推翻。
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Usually they are parallel to each other , and sometimes overturned or overthrusted .
通常它们是彼此平行的,有时是倒转或掩冲的。
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The earthquake overturned houses .
地震使房屋倾覆。
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The train derailed and overturned .
火车出轨颠覆了。
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Depending on the intensity of the deforming forces the folds may be gentle , sharp , overturned , or overthrust .
根据变形力的强度,褶皱可以是平缓的,陡峭的,倒转的,或逆掩的。
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In the relief that many felt when the Supreme Court did not overturn the Affordable Care Act , the implications of the decision for Medicaid were not fully appreciated .
当最高法院没有推翻《平价医疗法案》时,许多人感到宽慰,但人们并未充分理解这一决定对医疗补助的影响。
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For example , it may only be through repeated experiments , evidence gathering , and finally overturning a theory , that a baby will come to accept the idea that other people can have different views and desires from what he or she has , for example , unlike the child , Mommy actually doesn 't like Dove chocolate .
例如,可能只有通过反复的实验、收集证据并在最后推翻一个理论时,婴儿才会接受这样的想法,即其他人可以有不同的观点和愿望,比如妈妈不是小孩,她不喜欢德芙巧克力。
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" I saw Bo swim out from under the overturned boat . "
“我看见波从翻船底下游了出来。”
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China supports reforming the international order and system , but such reform is not about overturning the current system , or starting all over again , rather it is about seeking new ideas to improve it .
我们主张对国际秩序和体系进行改革,但这种改革并不是推倒重来,也非另起炉灶,而是创新完善。