overturns

英 [ˌəʊvəˈtɜːnz]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈtɜːrnz]

v.  倾倒; 倾覆; 翻掉; 推翻，撤销(判决等)
overturn的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG （使）翻转；（使）倾覆；（使）倒下
  If somethingoverturnsor if youoverturnit, it turns upside down or on its side.
  1. The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall...
     卡车突然失控，翻倒撞上了一堵墙。
  2. Alex jumped up so violently that he overturned his glass of sherry...
     亚历克斯一下子暴跳起来，结果把他那杯雪利酒都打翻了。
  3. A dozen cartons of books had been overturned and strewn about the floor.
     十几个装书的纸箱都被倒空，乱扔了一地。
  4. ...a battered overturned boat.
     千疮百孔的倾覆的小船
• VERB 推翻，撤销（判决）
  If someone in authorityoverturnsa legal decision, they officially decide that that decision is incorrect or not valid.
  1. When the Russian parliament overturned his decision, he backed down...
     俄罗斯议会推翻了他的决定，他只好作罢。
  2. His nine-month sentence was overturned by Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Watkins.
     上诉法院法官沃特金斯撤销了对他作出的9个月徒刑的判决。
• VERB 颠覆，破坏（政府或体系）
  Tooverturna government or system means to remove it or destroy it.
  1. He accused his opponents of wanting to overturn the government.
     他指责反对派企图颠覆政府。
  2. ...a society where all the old values had been overturned.
     摒弃了所有旧价值观的社会

双语例句

• To a tree whose branches are abundant, and its roots scanty; and the wind comes, and uproots it, and overturns it.
  像一棵树，枝叶繁盛而根基甚浅，风一来就动摇而倒地。
• But whatever the reasons for the relative happiness of bumblers, their existence in such large numbers in most businesses I have experienced overturns two tenets of modern management practice.
  但不管能力较低者究竟是出于什么原因过得更加愉快，在我所接触过的几乎所有公司里，这类员工都大量存在，这一事实推翻了现代管理学实践的两大原则。
• His theory of ″ impersonality ″, the core of his aesthetic theory, retorts and overturns the traditional theories, but is also his contribution to the theories of English modernist novels.
  其中，非个性化和作家退出小说是乔伊斯美学思想的核心，这是他对传统的小说理论的反拨和颠覆，也是他对英国现代主义小说理论的重大贡献。
• Network Experience Overturns Traditional Store
  网络体验颠覆传统商店
• While the post-modern philosophers hold that the display of the relationship between language and gender offers completely new train of thought to the academic research, which overturns the traditional concept in a fairly large scale.
  在后现代主义哲学家看来，语言与性别关系的揭示则为学术研究提供了崭新的思路，对传统观念进行了一次规模不小的反观和颠覆。
• One day while fishing in a calm sea the south wind suddenly arises and overturns his boat.
  一天捕鱼，而在平静的海面南方风突然出现，并推翻了他的船。
• In her novel she praises the physical feature of the female, acknowledges their self-jury and longs for the improvement of women's living conditions and overturns the history of maternal mythology.
  铁凝小说的女性书写表现为对女性身体的纯净赞美，对女性族群自我戕害的坦然承认，对母性神话的历史颠覆以及女性未来生存状态的美好憧憬。
• The doctrine overturns one of the central geopolitical assumptions of the past two decades: that, for all its hurt pride, Russia saw its role as a powerful player within a post-cold-war geopolitical order.
  这种原则颠覆了过去20年来地缘政治中的一种核心假设：虽然自尊心受到伤害，俄罗斯仍然自视为后冷战地缘政治格局的一个强有力参与者。
• The opinion that the theory of Burden of Proof should standing upon the logical starting point of presumption overturns the traditional position of presumption rules.
  以推定为逻辑起点的证明责任理论的观点颠覆了传统理论关于推定规则的定位。
• Maik Thomas of the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, who was not affiliated with the study, says the new work overturns previous ideas.
  位于波茨坦的德国地球科学研究中心的迈克·托马斯虽然没有参与上述研究工作，但他表示，这项新的成果推翻了以前的观点。