英语词汇“overcome”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINovercome

Origin:

Old English ofercuman

VERB TABLE

overcome

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	overcome
	he, she, it	overcomes
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	overcame
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have overcome
	he, she, it	has overcome
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had overcome
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will overcome
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have overcome

Continuous Form
Present	I	am overcoming
	he, she, it	is overcoming
	you, we, they	are overcoming
Past	I, he, she, it	was overcoming
	you, we, they	were overcoming
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been overcoming
	he, she, it	has been overcoming
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been overcoming
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be overcoming
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been overcoming

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Five employees were overcome by smoke.
I don't think he'll ever overcome his fear of flying.
I was overcome with an irresistible urge to hit him.
New York overcame Washington in the final game.
Sara had overcome the disadvantages of her background to become a successful lawyer.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

And its technical skill, vast financial reserves and marketing savvy give it the potential to overcome any early disadvantage.
However, these difficulties were overcome by the efforts of devoted officers.
I'd like to be able to overcome that feeling that it was a problem to everybody else.
It had left him alone to think about the problems he had to face and how he would overcome them.
One of the lessons of baseball is, adversity can be overcome.
Rival, patriarchal faiths never entirely overcame the worship of this deity, nor will they ever do so.
She felt she could never forgive herself, but when she got there, the beauty of the place overcame her again.
Sometimes overcoming enormous odds, mostly because of racial prejudice, black athletes changed the sporting landscape in the United States.

Longman Language Activatorto feel happy/frightened/bored etc► feel/be

: be happy/frightened/bored etc · Don't be scared -- the dog won't bite.· Hazel was furious when I lost her camera.feel happy/frightened/bored etc · She's feeling a little nervous about the wedding.· I couldn't help feeling a little sad when he left.· You shouldn't feel guilty - it wasn't your fault.

► experience

formal to feel a strong emotion such as joy, pride, or sorrow: · I experienced a great sense of loss when my father died.· When she was younger, my mother experienced a depression so severe she had to be hospitalized.

► be overcome with/by

to feel an emotion such as sadness or disappointment so strongly that you are unable to remain calm or think clearly: · When Diana met the starving children she was overcome with pity and outrage.· Suddenly, I was overcome by a feeling of panic.· Receiving the prize in honour of her dead father, she was overcome with emotion.

► be burning with

: be burning with curiosity/desire/anger etc to have an emotion that is so strong that it is very difficult to control: · Martha was burning with curiosity but realized that now wasn't the time to ask questions.

► give way to

to let a strong emotion show or affect you, especially after you have been trying not to feel it or show it: · Giving way to her grief, Anna burst into tears.· He was ashamed to have given way to such feelings of self-pity.

► harbour

British /harbor American to have feelings, especially bad ones, in your mind for a long time: · Parker is believed to harbor political ambitions.· Some commuters still harbor resentment toward the protesters for blocking traffic and creating chaos.harbour a grudge: · Taylor denied harbouring a grudge against his former boss.

► nurse

formal: nurse resentment/anger/a grievance/a grudge to have angry feelings for a long time but not express them: · Police believe the suspect nursed a grudge against women.· She never nurses a grievance or plans revenge.

to stop yourself from having or showing a feeling► hold back

to try hard to stop yourself laughing, crying, or showing anger: hold back something: · Jack held back his tears and pretended not to be disappointed.· Sarah held back a sob of relief.hold something back: · I wanted to laugh, but I managed to hold it back.· She struggled to hold her feelings back.

► stifle

: stifle a yawn/a smile/laughter etc to try to stop yourself showing that you are tired, amused etc especially because you do not want to seem rude: · She stifled a yawn as the boss read out the sales figures.· Maria looked away and stifled a giggle.

► suppress

written to make a strong effort to stop yourself from showing feelings of anger, sadness etc: · I suppressed an urge to laugh.· He looked at me, waiting with suppressed anger.· It's not good to suppress your feelings.

► overcome/conquer

to manage to stop feeling something that affects you very strongly, for example fear, pain etc: · She managed to overcome her shyness, and stepped forward to introduce herself.· Hilton stepped into the room, fighting to conquer his feelings of disgust.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► overcome barriers

· There are still many more barriers that need to be overcome.

► resolve/overcome a crisis

(=deal with it so that it no longer exists)· We still hope that the hostage crisis can be resolved by negotiation.

► curiosity gets the better of somebody/overcomes somebody

(=makes you do something that you are trying not to do)· Curiosity got the better of me and I opened her diary.

► overcome/resolve difficulties

(=deal with them successfully)· We are confident that we can overcome these difficulties.

► overcome a disadvantage

(=succeed in spite of a disadvantage)· She was able to overcome the disadvantages of race and poverty.

► be overcome with emotion

(=feel an emotion so strongly that you cannot behave normally)· As soon as I heard that song, I was overcome with emotion.

► conquer/overcome your fear

(=stop being afraid)· She managed to conquer her fear of flying.

► overcome/clear/get over etc a hurdle

(=deal successfully with a problem)

► overcome limitations

(also transcend limitations formal) (=do more than you would normally be able or allowed to do)· Can men and women ever transcend the limitations of their roles?

► overcome an obstacle

(also surmount an obstacle formal) (=find a solution to an obstacle)· We need to help young people overcome the obstacles that poverty puts in their way.

► beat/overcome/defy the odds

(=succeed despite great difficulties)· The baby, born sixteen weeks too early, defied the odds and is celebrating her first birthday.

► overcome opposition

(=deal with opposition so that it no longer exists)· Nothing he said could overcome their opposition.

► overcome prejudice

· the story of how a poor kid from the ghetto overcomes poverty and prejudice

► overcome a problem

· We try to help families overcome housing problems.

► overcome resistance

(=fight and win against it)· How can he overcome resistance to the idea in Congress?

► overcame ... shyness

I overcame my shyness.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► easily

· They warned that commercially available encryption software would be easily overcome by intelligence services.· But the gender gap is not so easily overcome.· Yesterday they easily overcame Read in the Lancashire Knockout.· Mosquitoes prove indeed delicate, easily overcome.· Some are obviously unavoidable but others could, providing some thought and planning was implemented, be easily overcome.· A poor response from Valencia was easily overcome and within the city there was much murmuring against the new ruler.· Weakened by his excessively long kip, the Castle Master easily overcame him.

NOUN► attempt

· Modifications of a theory in an attempt to overcome a difficulty need not be adhoc.· As a matter of fact, partnerships were developed in an attempt to overcome some of the major shortcomings of proprietorships.· Kellock has since retitled its service Cashflow Finance in an attempt to overcome this barrier.· His novel is a willed attempt to overcome the difficulty.· This measure is an attempt to overcome the deficiency of the relative growth rates discussed above.· The Emergency of 1975-77 was an attempt to overcome instability in a decisive and authoritarian manner.· Under the Maccabeans they withstood the attempts of Antiochus to overcome their country and shatter their religion.

► barrier

· Kellock has since retitled its service Cashflow Finance in an attempt to overcome this barrier.· Each school had to overcome numerous barriers to reform through the collective work of all the faculty.· Elephants elsewhere have been known to overcome both types of barriers that the task force was planning to erect.· They also can help students overcome barriers to success, frustration, and pain, helping them grow to greater self-sufficiency.· Our friendship is a triumph of overcoming every known barrier.· Effective Listening Senders can overcome communication barriers by spending more time listening.· The link worker can help overcome language and cultural barriers between the doctor or nurse and the patient.· People who have overcome extreme barriers deserve a reward and this is the reward I want.

► challenge

· He was able to overcome these and other challenges, but only by turning each issue into a question of confidence.· Its agent has changed in its brief history and has adapted to overcome the many challenges with which it is faced.· Despite a few mechanical mishaps, loyal George manages to overcome the challenge and deliver the family to Rome.

► crisis

· It took Cuckney four years to overcome the financial crisis he encountered when he took over the Crown Agents in 1974.· Only when you overcome the crisis of self-confidence can opportunity make a difference in your life.· Other local gentry families were less fortunate in overcoming the crisis produced by some of their members.

► difficulty

· Thus the practical and ethical difficulties can be overcome.· Nature had to present itself as a difficulty to be overcome.· There are of course formidable difficulties to be overcome.· These difficulties may be overcome in a number of ways: 1.· However, these difficulties were overcome by the efforts of devoted officers.· It could be argued that to a large extent such fears are unfounded or else that the difficulties have been overcome.· Now the difficulties were almost overcome.· Although there are many personal difficulties to be overcome when attempting to withdraw from drugs, it is possible.

► division

· He was untiring in his efforts to overcome racial divisions and gender inequalities.· This involved most notably a stress on the power of economic forces to overcome existing divisions between States.

► effort

· During an effort to overcome one of those problems - a heart defect - surgeons gave the boy a blood transfusion.· He was untiring in his efforts to overcome racial divisions and gender inequalities.· Some of the Act's underlying principles can support efforts to overcome suspicion between travellers and welfare authorities.· In the post-war period Moscow directed much effort towards overcoming its agricultural inferiority vis-à-vis the West, especially the United States.

► fear

· Last night's film examined a one-day course which helps people overcome their fear of flying.· Boys who need to show that they can overcome their fear or that they have none.· Does being brave mean being strong or overcoming our fears?· She had overcome her fear of Rhayader.· This kind of firm overcame that fear, Mr Muirhead said.· To see clues that others have overlooked, to face danger and overcome fear.· Once people overcome their fears about computers and begin to use them in telecottages, they acquire their own equipment.· Most refuse to defy the cultural definition of masculinity, to overcome their fears, or to relinquish their male privilege.

► hurdle

· The wind speed and direction, and the cloud height and type were major hurdles to be overcome each hour.· This is one of two major hurdles the Cougars must overcome if they want to reach their first Rose Bowl since 1931.· But once these hurdles are overcome, women soon stop harking back to their village background and comparing everything with it.· By now, though, most of the technical hurdles have been overcome.· I still had that hurdle to overcome.· For most people, this is a great hurdle to overcome.

► limitation

· The system only interacts with the user in order to try to overcome the complexities or limitations of its own mechanisms.· Three orientations by size of the collectivity may be sufficient to overcome this limitation.· The greenfly, another live-bearer, has evolved a way of overcoming even this limitation.· The expectation is that special learners will adapt to overcome their limitations to the extent possible.· We propose to overcome these limitations through the use of a new methodology for the assessment of connectionist networks.· By grouping together, individuals overcome limitations imposed by both the physical environment and also their own biological limitations.

► obstacle

· Selim had formidable obstacles to overcome, however, in modernising the archaic structure of the Ottoman empire.· I also knew that one of the big obstacles to overcome would be the old conditioning.· Sales v Credit Sales people often view the credit department as an obstacle to overcome in getting a sale.· Bill Cosby once said he was doubly proud of his son because of the obstacles he had overcome.· There are numerous different obstacles to be overcome on the way.· But they add that Washington knows the Senate will be a difficult obstacle to overcome.· Life appeared to flow along sweetly, without many surprises or obstacles to overcome.

► odds

· A day on Crow, then, offers little in the way of drama or danger or overcoming odds.· Sometimes overcoming enormous odds, mostly because of racial prejudice, black athletes changed the sporting landscape in the United States.

► opposition

· In each they struggled with considerable success to overcome that opposition.· By her patience and charity she eventually overcame opposition and became the advisor and dearest friend of the whole household.· Our ancestors were somehow able to overcome all the opposition that stood in their way.· But he could not overcome strong opposition from anti-abortion activists in the party.

► prejudice

· That would be a hard battle to win, since he would have to overcome prejudice, defeatism and small-mindedness.· The three-year project is designed to overcome prejudice about the construction industry and give children a realistic insight into its many occupations.· Davis's struggle to overcome the racial prejudice that held him back was backed by Sinatra.

► problem

· Each situation brought about problems for me to overcome.· The communication problem can be overcome in part through the use of interpreters.· The problem was overcome by the passing of the 1876 Act.· Of course there are problems, but look at the past and at the problems we have already overcome.· If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome.· We have some serious problems to overcome.· And finally, I will explore some suggestions about how such problems may be overcome.· My first problem was to overcome my sense of inadequacy at my own mathematical understanding.

► reluctance

· In fact, you will probably need to overcome a certain reluctance to be recorded, whatever your location.· The failure of 1874 helped to overcome radical reluctance to form centralized organizations.· He says that clients must overcome their reluctance and come foreward.· Whereas pity has to overcome a reluctance to be drawn into subjective awareness of another's suffering, cruelty welcomes it.

► resistance

· At the beginning of each new paragraph she must summon her strength to overcome enormous resistances.· Ideas need to be tested by their ability, in combination with events, to overcome inertia and resistance.· The head alone can not overcome resistances and antagonisms which lie outside school.· It was ridiculous, but somehow she had never overcome a resistance to working with children.· Similarly a sense of competition will often overcome the resistance.· The first two chapters describe activities which will help overcome problems such as learner resistance.· Work is done by a system when the system exerts a force to overcome resistance.· Handling by kidney squeeze overcame any further resistance so that it was then possible to secure the model in the Pavlov stock.

► shyness

· As passengers overcame an initial shyness the floor had begun to fill with dancing couples, the captain among them.· This time I went because my desire to spend another couple of hours with my brother overcame my shyness.· Denver overcame his shyness to take on a stage presence that made him internationally recognized.· Having overcome his shyness, he revelled in the companionship.

► way

· So a search began for ways of overcoming the difficulty.· There was no way to overcome the feeling that we were all at a kind of funeral.· One way of overcoming the apparent falsification was to suggest that phlogiston has negative weight.· The measure of his heart is how he deals with adversity and the way he overcomes a seemingly impossible situation.· Management and unions are looking at ways of overcoming the problem.· It is always useful to consider ways to overcome any basic flaws in an evaluation procedure.· The only way to overcome it is to succeed at something, at anything.· Suggests ways of overcoming these problems.

► ways

· So a search began for ways of overcoming the difficulty.· It is always useful to consider ways to overcome any basic flaws in an evaluation procedure.· It is useful to look at some ways of overcoming feelings of hesitation people often have before making a change.· There are a number of ways to overcome this problem.· Management and unions are looking at ways of overcoming the problem.· Martin and Irvine 1983 recognise three problems with peer evaluation, and suggest ways of overcoming these problems.· Suggests ways of overcoming these problems.· When a player is presented with these psychological problems there are two ways he can overcome them.

VERB► design

· The three-year project is designed to overcome prejudice about the construction industry and give children a realistic insight into its many occupations.· Operating rules are designed to overcome this inherent instability; but that night, in a hurry, the operators broke them.

► help

· This in turn puts him in the right frame of mind to be helped to overcome the problem once and for all.· They also can help students overcome barriers to success, frustration, and pain, helping them grow to greater self-sufficiency.· Last night's film examined a one-day course which helps people overcome their fear of flying.· Getting with the program helped one overcome the stress of the times one lived in.· Practising aerobatics and spinning will help to overcome any misgivings you may have about flying in steep turns at low speeds.· In general the colonial revolution has helped to overcome lethargy and the feeling of political impotence.· And again dismissal certainly will not help them overcome their alcohol problem.· Read in studio Children with Cerebral Palsy could soon lose the training centre that helps them to overcome their handicap.

► manage

· More recent studies have managed to overcome several of these problems.· Predictably, Dominy managed to overcome such scruples offer he was appointed commissioner.· I realized he had managed to overcome what he called his weakness.· Despite a few mechanical mishaps, loyal George manages to overcome the challenge and deliver the family to Rome.· He admires actors like Robert Redford and Warren Beatty - who have managed to overcome their good looks and make a career.· Daddy says it's quite remarkable the way you've always managed to overcome the obstacles in your life.

► need

· In fact, you will probably need to overcome a certain reluctance to be recorded, whatever your location.· We need something that will overcome them!· For the system to work properly, several practical and technical obstacles will need to be overcome over the next 12 months.· I knew from experience that objective performance data would be needed in overcoming that prior conditioning.· Enormous vested interests will need to be overcome to bring about such changes.· A range of policy innovations were needed to overcome or to moderate the urban problems.· He may need counselling to overcome the trauma in the future.· Ironically, the real weakness you need to overcome is your sensitivity to such criticism.

► struggle

· Five target fish were nominated for the second day as the anglers struggled to overcome persistent torrential rain and buffeting winds.· This magnificent abundance established one tradition that we are still struggling to overcome.· Last Saturday, a weakened Gloucester side struggled to overcome Rosslyn Park.· The very struggle to overcome the new problems can have a salutary welding effect on the new church.· We didn't start as stars, struggling to overcome an excess of charm and good looks.· While she was struggling to overcome the kidney disease, Erma was also fighting cancer and underwent a mastectomy.

► try

· A number of solutions have been put forward to try and overcome this problem.· The job of some one who is trying to overcome the idea of fighting to fall asleep is to give up.· The system only interacts with the user in order to try to overcome the complexities or limitations of its own mechanisms.· Once, trying to overcome a headache, she fell asleep.· We will try to overcome both these obstacles together.· Esoteric Psychology sets out to make us aware of it, and then gradually to try to overcome it.· Her natural shyness was trying to overcome a new, bigger, and more intense feeling.· Have you any suggestions as to what I might try to overcome the problem?