| 释义 |
over-react, v.|ˌəʊvəriːˈækt|
[over- 27.]
intr. To respond with excessive force or emotion to a given situation. Hence ˌover-reˈacting vbl. n.; ˌover-reˈaction.
1961L. Mumford City in Hist. i. 26 At the same time, the male over-reacted against the feminine side of his own nature. 1962Times 21 Aug. 5/6 The more emotional..person tended to over-react to stress. 1965Economist 13 Nov. 705/3 Some critics do think that the United States is in danger of getting its priorities wrong, by over-reacting to the threat of China and under-reacting to the possibilities of easing the Soviet dominance of east-central Europe. 1967C. Cockburn I Claud xxxiv. 424 This ‘over-reaction’ to what were..reasonable queries and doubts, was psychologically very revealing. 1968Listener 26 Sept. 410/1 This was the first escalation, triggered off when the militants goaded the authorities into over-reacting, closing the faculties and calling in the police. 1971J. Osborne West of Suez i. 22, I just hope he..gets some innocent pleasure out of it, which he's entitled to without censorious philistines like me over-reacting. 1973E.-J. Bahr Nice Neighbourhood x. 106 Jack cried despairingly. He always over-reacted. 1973Times 16 Nov. 7/2 A number of Government members believed that the espionage charges levelled against the editors constituted an over-reaction to the articles published in the magazine. 1974M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. i. 12 Whether this was an over-reaction to questionable laboratory results or a sound scientific decision destined to rescue mankind remains to be seen at a future, less emotionally charged time. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Oct. 1324/4 The hostility to the medium which he encountered in the early days led Strand (like some other major photographers) to over⁓react, to overcompensate by being rather too serious, too ponderous, too unbending. |