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单词 overcome
释义
overcome
(vəʳkʌm )
Word forms: overcomes , overcoming , overcame language note:   The form overcome is used in the present tense and is also the past participle.
1. verb B2
If you overcome a problem or a feeling, you successfully deal with it and control it.
Molly had fought and overcome her fear of flying. [VERB noun]
Find a way to overcome your difficulties. [VERB noun]
2. verb
If you are overcome by a feeling or event, it is so strong or has such a strong effect that you cannot think clearly.
The night before the test I was overcome by fear and despair. [be VERB-ed]
A dizziness overcame him, blurring his vision. [VERB noun]
3. verb [usually passive]
If you are overcome by smoke or a poisonous gas, you become very ill or die from breathing it in.
The residents were trying to escape from the fire but were overcome by smoke. [be VERB-ed]
Collocations:
overcome a perception
Was it a flintily calculated ploy to overcome the perception of him as an emotional dinosaur?
Times, Sunday Times
She regretted she could not command sufficient confidence to overcome a perception of bias.
Times, Sunday Times
His work sought to overcome the perception propagated in the 1960s that learning two languages made for two competing aims.
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overcome a setback
In the days afterwards, he sought out coaches past and present to help him to overcome the setback.
Times, Sunday Times
The team was never to overcome this setback.
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Nevertheless, the flow rate of the feed can be monitored to overcome this setback.
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He overcame this setback to devote himself to his art and sport, the later an important part of his rehabilitation.
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overcome a shock
Once you've overcome the shock of starting it off in a saucepan, it's very straightforward.
Times, Sunday Times
The polytechnic has set up a psychological unit to help students to overcome their shock.
Times, Sunday Times
So how will he feel when she overcomes the shock of seeing him and takes him in her arms once again?
The Sun
But many surgeons had it in their heads that pain was a necessary prologue to recovery, the way in which the body dealt with overcoming the shock of an operation.
Times, Sunday Times
overcome a shortage
The advance could eventually overcome the shortage of donor organs for patients, currently waiting six months.
Times, Sunday Times
In the 1980s farmers invested in harvesting and planting machinery to overcome the shortage of labor.
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The statute sought to overcome this shortage.
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overcome a stigma
Only recently have former presidents overcome the stigma of generating cash from their reputations.
Times, Sunday Times
He chose to speak out about his depression to overcome the stigma associated with it and to urge others to seek help.
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Educators need to help overcome the stigma of poverty.
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He asks them about overcoming the stigma many people feel about going for counselling.
Times, Sunday Times
overcome a temptation
He overcomes the temptation to answer back, to act like a 'superstar'.
Times, Sunday Times
When a minister feels like a hero at home, it's a significant factor in overcoming the temptations of the flesh.
Christianity Today
Few in its fold overcome the temptations of self-regard.
Christianity Today
While his friends are enjoying themselves, he overcomes his temptation and goes to a hardware shop to buy a chimta (pair of tongs).
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overcome a trauma
He said that she would swim with a mask to cover her nose, and with a psychologist at the edge of the pool to help her to overcome the trauma.
Times, Sunday Times
He later said that it took him years to overcome the trauma of what he saw.
Times, Sunday Times
Trauma specialists are able to assist the victim in identifying the issue and brainstorming ways to overcome the trauma.
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The man had to undertake counseling to overcome the trauma of the incident.
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Some returnees never overcame the trauma of imprisonment, while others adapted smoothly to life in the 'big zone'.
The Times Literary Supplement
overcome a weakness
To overcome this weakness, several groups have suggested iterative schemes that depend on the atomic charge.
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They struggle to overcome their weaknesses, defects, and sins.
Times, Sunday Times
How much effort should people make to overcome the weaknesses of their personality type?
Christianity Today
Researchers have devised a mathematical formula for procrastinators to work out just how much chance they have of overcoming their weakness.
Times, Sunday Times
Later streetfighters used custom-built frames intended to overcome the weakness of the tubular steel frames of the early 4-cylinder superbikes of the 1970s and '80s.
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overcome poverty
Market forces alone will not overcome poverty traps.
Times, Sunday Times
Deeper reform was felt to be essential if aid was to demonstrate its true potential in the effort to overcome poverty.
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Bad luck, poverty traps, and corrupt governments plague individual efforts to overcome poverty.
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Overcoming poverty requires that person's direct involvement in the decision-making process.
Christianity Today
A society built on faith and virtue and spiritual values that overcomes poverty by a fair distribution of wealth, opportunity and resources.
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overcome resistance
Sensitivity to people's anxiety as well as a clear understanding of the gospel will be needed to overcome resistance to ministry of this kind.
Christianity Today
Ministers hope that the discounts will overcome resistance among drivers to a device that could check on their movements.
Times, Sunday Times
Local communities need to be offered incentives to overcome resistance to the exploitation of what could prove a very valuable national resource.
Times, Sunday Times
New inhibitors include dasatinib and nilotinib, which are significantly more potent than imatinib and may overcome resistance.
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He also had to overcome resistance in the military and among party members.
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overcome shyness
Their advice will help you overcome shyness and find the right things to say to cope with tricky situations.
The Sun
Gradually, though, the former farmer has overcome shyness and suspicion to allow his instinctive talents a wider audience.
Times, Sunday Times
To overcome shyness stop thinking about yourself and your fears.
The Sun
I'm sending my leaflets on finding good counselling and overcoming shyness.
The Sun
I'm sending you my leaflets about overcoming shyness and building a social life to get you started.
The Sun
overcome the lack of
Any student of the subject must overcome the lack of documentary evidence and the destruction of many of the sculptures themselves, with others surviving in a poor state of preservation.
Times, Sunday Times
This helps them overcome the lack of support at home.
Times, Sunday Times
It was intended to overcome the lack of coordination between existing agencies which, in part, it did by duplicating some of their functions.
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Throughout the series, the two help her to overcome her lack of confidence and believe in herself.
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This framework offers a way to overcome the lack of interoperability between the many video codecs deployed in the market.
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Translations:
Chinese: 战胜
Japanese: 克服する
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