| 释义 |
▪ I. ˌoverˈtop, adv. rare.
[f. over prep. + top n.: cf. over- 31.]
Over the top, overhead.
1776W. Nimmo Stirlingsh. (1880) I. xxi. 392 Trees, magnificent in foliage and limb, meet overtop. 1921‘J. O'Brien’ Around Boree Log (1937) 82 And every creek a banker ran, And dams filled overtop.
▪ II. overtop, v.|əʊvəˈtɒp|
[over- 1, 3.]
1. trans. To rise over or above the top of; to surpass in height, surmount, tower above, top.
1593–4J. Davies in Sylvester's Wks. (1880) II. 67 Lo here a Monument admir'd of all..O'r-topping Envie's clouds. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 128 The crabbed mountaines which overtopped it. 1784Cowper Task i. 558, I see a column of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 173 He..showed his brazen forehead, overtopped by a wig worth fifty guineas, in the ante-chambers. 1884Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ball. ii. xxx. 279/1 Charles overtopping Hugo by fifteen inches.
2. fig.
a. To rise above in power or authority; to be superior to; to override.
1561T. N[orton] Calvin's Inst. iv. xi. (1634) 602 marg., The time when the Pope began first to overtop the Emperour. 1649Milton Eikon. xxviii, If Kings presume to overtopp the Law by which they raigne for the public good. 1859Grote Greece ii. lxxxiv. XI. 199 That intense antipathy against a despot who overtops and overrides the laws.
b. To rise above or go beyond in degree or quality; to excel, surpass.
1581Mulcaster Positions xliii. (1887) 272 So the height of their argument ouertop not their power. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 297 None can overtop him in goodness. 1747Carte Hist. Eng. I. 176 This prince much over-topping the other Scotch chieftains in power. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 276 In them the man somehow overtops the author.
†3. To render top-heavy. Obs. [over- 3.]
1643[Angier] Lanc. Vall. Achor 2 If the height of the Sail did not overtop the Ship.
Hence overˈtopped ppl. a., spec. of a small tree: growing beneath the canopy formed by larger trees and receiving no direct light; overˈtopping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1610Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 81 Who t'aduance, and who To trash for ouer-topping. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. xliv. §14. 360 The Saxons, whose ouer-topped Monarchy, and weake walles now wanted props to hold vp the weight. 1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 203 Look that ye love the Lord Jesus Christ with a superlative love, with an over⁓topping love. 1897D. H. Madden Diary Silence 38 The overtopping hound is not necessarily a bawler, or even a babbler. 1903W. B. Yeats In Seven Woods 39 And he, The one over-topping man that's in the world, Keeps far away. 1917Jrnl. Forestry XV. 74 The crown classes usually distinguished are: Dominant... Co-dominant... Intermediate... Overtopped. Trees with crowns entirely below the general forest canopy and receiving no direct light. 1948Ibid. XLVI. 833/2 Seedlings overtopped but with considerable side light survive and grow just about as well as seedlings in small openings. 1959Times 2 Nov. 21/1 Undertopping in no case exceeded 5 lb. to the hundredweight and overtopping with three machines did not exceed 3·4 lb. 1976M. Green Children of Sun vi. 234 America's overtopping of England—England's overshadowing and diminution. 1976G. W. Sharpe et al. Introd. Forestry (ed. 4) ix. 187 Suppressed. Pertaining to trees with small crowns that are entirely below the level of the canopy receiving no direct light from above or from the sides. Also called overtopped. |