| 单词 | overshoot |
| 释义 | overshoot Word forms: overshoots, overshooting , overshot pronunciation note: The verb is pronounced (oʊvəʳʃuːt ). The noun is pronounced (oʊvəʳʃuːt ). 1. verb If you overshoot a place that you want to get to, you go past it by mistake. The plane apparently overshot the runway after landing. [VERB noun] They had already overshot the corner once. [VERB noun] 2. verb If a government or organization overshoots its budget, it spends more than it had planned to. The government usually overshot its original spending target. [VERB noun] Overshoot is also a noun. ...the 100 million pounds overshoot in the cost of building the hospital. [+ in] Idioms: overshoot the mark to do something to a greater extent than is necessary or desirable I quite unwittingly overshot the mark, and I still feel embarrassed about it. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: overshoot a target In the wake of the financial crisis of 2007-09 and ensuing recession, it allowed inflation temporarily to overshoot the target rather than choke off recovery. Times,Sunday Times To do this, it adjusts interest rates to either boost or dampen activity in the economy if inflation threatens to undershoot or overshoot the target. Times, Sunday Times I don't deny that inflation overshot the target for many years. Times, Sunday Times In all of them, inflation had overshot the target. Times, Sunday Times These were to provide a means of preventing the pilot from overshooting his target during an intercept. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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