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

• The research overturns traditional assumptions about the relationship between the Sun and global warming.
  这项研究颠覆了关于太阳与全球变暖之间关系的传统假设。
• In the second chapter, it explains how Celie, the heroine, overturns the phallus center and achieves self-realization.
  第二章首先阐释了《紫颜色》主人公西丽亚是如何颠覆菲勒斯中心从而实现自我的；
• Intertextuality was originating from semiotics and its establishment overturns the disadvantages of structuralism whose opinion is that text is a self-reliant and closed system.
  互文性理论起源于符号学，克服了结构主义的弊端，结构主义认为文本是一个封闭的系统且只由能指和所指构成。
• In the new context, the relation and interaction between elites and grassroots overturns.
  在新语境下，精英与草根的位格关系和互动结构，都发生了颠覆式的变化。
• 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。
• However, the moment the dispute between industrialization and literary creative theory starts, the dispute over illusive literature overturns fairy tales becomes much more serious.
  商业化与纯文学化的创作争刚开始，幻想文学颠覆童话的争执再度升级。
• Well, it's a special technique we use to get the kayak upright when it overturns.
  嗯，那是独木舟翻覆时所用的一种使独木舟翻正的特殊技巧。
• Network Experience Overturns Traditional Store
  网络体验颠覆传统商店
• With the pursuit of "love" of different varieties by Black people as the mainline, and with Black community as her characters, Morrison deconstructs and overturns the official White history.
  莫里森以黑人在不同历史时期对不同内涵的爱的追求为主线，以黑人群体为主角，对白人的官方历史进行解构和颠覆。