| 单词 | overboard |
| 释义 | overboard (once / 695 pages) 1adv 2adv You can only fall overboard if you're on a boat. If you fall overboard, don't forget your life vest! The adverb overboard most often comes up when someone falls in the water. When it's used literally, it very specifically refers to the movement of a person or an object from a boat into the ocean or other body of water. Figuratively, to go overboard means to take something too far — you're going overboard on your diet if you refuse to eat anything that isn't green. WORD FAMILYoverboard: overboards+/board: boarded, boarder, boarding, boards, overboard/boarder: boarders/boarding: boardings USAGE EXAMPLESThe woman was presumed overboard, Cunard said in a statement to local media. Reuters(Dec 28, 2016) So I was always falling in the boat and knocking things overboard. The Guardian(Dec 23, 2016) A Nigerian woman is keening: her two children were lost overboard before rescue arrived. Economist(Oct 20, 2016) 1 adv to extremes 2he went overboard to please his in-laws adv from on board a vessel into the water they dropped their garbage overboard |
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