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单词 overload
释义
overload
Word forms: overloads, overloading , overloaded pronunciation note:   The verb is pronounced (vəʳld ). The noun is pronounced (vəʳloʊd ).
1. verb
If you overload something such as a vehicle, you put more things or people into it than it was designed to carry.
Don't overload the boat or it will sink. [VERB noun]
Large meals overload the digestive system. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: weigh down, burden, encumber, overburden  
overloaded adjective
Some trains were so overloaded that their suspension collapsed.
2. verb
To overload someone with work, problems, or information means to give them more work, problems, or information than they can cope with.
...an effective method that will not overload staff with yet more paperwork. [VERB noun + with]
Synonyms: strain, tax, burden, saddle  
Overload is also a noun.
57 per cent complained of work overload.
The greatest danger is that we simply create information overload for our executives.
overloaded adjective
The bar waiter was already overloaded with orders.
3. verb
If you overload an electrical system, you cause too much electricity to flow through it, and so damage it.
Never overload an electrical socket. [VERB noun]
Quotations:
It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back
Collocations:
cognitive overload
Ministers have been eyeball to eyeball with complexities that must have threatened cognitive overload.
Times,Sunday Times
When able automatically to recall knowledge committed to longterm memory we free up capacity in our working memory and guard against cognitive overload.
Times, Sunday Times
They work under cognitive overload, engaging in multitasking and encountering frequent interruptions.
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Of course, this impacts out ability to deeply concentrate and depending on the presence allocator, can eventually reach a point of cognitive overload.
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Cognitive overload can be diminished by increasing receptive and integrative capacity.
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overload a system
It will overload the system and waste a lot of time for head teachers and governors.
Times, Sunday Times
Frequently, weather would overload the system and cause delays up to 1,000 miles away.
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She could not tell if the exhilaration of married life had overloaded her system or what.
Christianity Today
Defeat overloaded his system and caused meltdown.
Times, Sunday Times
overloaded boat
Just beyond the mouth of the harbour, the overloaded boat capsized and sank.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
But we warned them the boat was overloaded.
The Sun (2008)
This boat is overloaded and you are putting our lives in danger.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
sensory overload
The sensory overload will also ensure they will remember it for years afterwards.
Times, Sunday Times
A sensory overload of fast cameras and action.
Times, Sunday Times
When the bottle runs dry, people exhausted from sensory overload drift away.
Times, Sunday Times
As if zooming through his mind-mangling world in superimmersive virtual reality wasn't enough, feeling every bass rumble and snare snap amounts to near-total sensory overload.
The Sun
Attach background information, if necessary, in a separate document to avoid sensory overload.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 使超载
Japanese: 積みすぎる
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