overburdened

英 [ˌəʊvəˈbɜːdnd]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈbɜːrdnd]

adj.  (系统、机构等)超负荷的，负荷过重的; (人因工作、问题等)负担过重的
v.  使负担过重
overburden的过去分词和过去式

过去式：overburdened　过去分词：overburdened　

BNC.38428 / COCA.25652

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （系统、机构等）负担过重的，不堪重负的
  If a system or organization isoverburdened, it has too many people or things to deal with and so does not function properly.
  1. The city's hospitals are overburdened by casualties.
     大量伤员使该市的医院不堪重负。
  2. ...an overburdened air traffic control system.
     超负荷运转的空中交通管制系统
• ADJ-GRADED （人因工作、问题等）负担过重的，不堪应付的
  If you areoverburdened withsomething such as work or problems, you have more of it than you can cope with.
  1. The Chief Inspector disliked being overburdened with insignificant detail.
     总督察讨厌在细枝末节上没完没了地纠缠。
  2. ...overburdened teachers.
     不堪应付教学任务的教师

英英释义

adj

• heavily burdened with work or cares
  1. bowed down with troubles
  2. found himself loaded down with responsibilities
  3. overburdened social workers
  4. weighed down with cares
  Synonym:bowed down(p)loaded down(p)weighed down(p)

双语例句

• We do not have enough primary and secondary school teachers either, and many of those we do have are overburdened, so that educational standards are lowered.
  我们中小学教师也不够，很多教师负担太重，影响到教学水平。
• Think about the life-long demands for care at a time when most health systems are already overburdened, underfunded, and dangerously understaffed.
  想想多数卫生系统已经存在不堪负重、资金不足状况以及人员短缺到了危险境地之时对医护带来的终身需求。
• The problem was, as the Internet grew, the public points became overburdened and traffic slowed at these bottlenecks.
  问题是，随着因特网的发展，这些公共对等汇接点变得负担过重，网上数据传送在这些瓶颈处变慢。
• Many developing countries spend just one per cent of their overburdened health budgets on mental health, which is used to fund services, treatment and research.
  许多发展中国家只把它们的负担过重的卫生预算的1%用于精神卫生，这些经费被用于资助服务、治疗和研究。
• In any case, it overburdened the system, causing a cascade of failures.
  无论如何，这一情况加重了供电系统的压力，导致了一连串停电事故的发生。
• One of the reasons we feel so overburdened by debt is that it has steadily taken more borrowing to finance our growth.
  我们感到债务负担如此沉重的原因之一是，为经济增长提供资金所需的贷款在稳步增加。
• The boards that review proposed studies are overburdened, understaffed and shot through with conflicts of interest.
  负责审阅那些建议性研究的委员会负荷过重，人手不足，充满利益冲突。
• The CPU simply becomes overburdened by context switching between threads.
  由于要在线程间进行上下文切换，因此CPU简直变成了超载。
• That said, the US is visibly overburdened by its present entanglements.
  话虽如此，但当下的种种纠葛显然令美国不堪重负。
• The United nations, the primary peacekeeper, is overburdened with operations around the world which it cannot afford.
  联合国作为主要的和平维护者，对世界各地的行动负担过多，无力应付。