| 释义 |
overˈspring, v.
[over- 1, 5: cf. OHG. ubarspringan, MHG. & Ger. überspringen.]
trans. To spring or leap over; fig. to surmount.
c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 332 That fyue fadme at the leeste it ouersprynge The hyeste Rokke. 1801W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XII. 583 An Arabian wildness of fancy,..which seldom shakes off the costume, or oversprings the range of Arabian idea. 1847Emerson Poems, Hafiz Wks. (Bohn) I. 479 Bring wine, that I overspring Both worlds at a single leap. |