overturn

• vt. 推翻；倾覆；破坏
• vi. 推翻；倾覆
• n. 倾覆；周转；破灭

over-,超过，过度，turn,转。比喻用法。

1. the act of upsetting something;

"he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed"

2. an improbable and unexpected victory;

"the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"

overturn (v.)

early 13c., of a wheel, "to rotate, roll over," from over- + turn (v.). Attested from c. 1300 in general transitive sense "to throw over violently;" figurative meaning "to ruin, destroy" is from late 14c. Of judicial decisions, "to reverse," it is attested from 1826. Related: Overturned; overturning.

On the overturned provisions the majority held the congress had deliberately.

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In Arizona v.United States,the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona's controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.

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In a rare unanimous ruling, the US Supreme Court has overturned the corruption conviction of a former Virginia governor, Robert McDonnell.

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The car skidded and overturned.

汽车打滑翻倒了。

牛津词典

He stood up quickly, overturning his chair.

他猛然站起来，弄翻了椅子。

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to overturn a decision/conviction/verdict

撤销决定 / 定罪 / 裁决

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His sentence was overturned by the appeal court.

上诉法庭撤销了对他的判决。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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He accused his opponents of wanting to overturn the government.

他指责反对派企图颠覆政府。

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...a society where all the old values had been overturned.

摒弃了所有旧价值观的社会

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We have been pressed by the Three Mountains for years and we overturn it at last.

我们过去被三座大山压迫了几十年,今天终于把它推倒了.

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THERE never was such an overturn in this world.

这世界上还从来没有过如此希望落空的事.

英汉文学 - 金银岛

We saw the canoe overturn, throwing its passengers into the water.

我们看到独木舟倾覆了, 把上面的乘客掀入水中.

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Their cunning plot is to overturn our government . It is of the thinnest.

他们的阴谋是想翻天. 这是显而易见的.

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Since then, economists have vied with each other to overturn this orthodoxy.

自此之后, 经济学家就开始争相颠覆这个传统理论.

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It will submerge nearby towns and overturn the mountains in its course.

它会在途中淹没了城镇,倾覆了山脉.

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Septimus wants to overturn the old society, and build up a new world.

于是,他要推翻旧社会, 建立充满爱,充满美的新世界.

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Medicare has said that it cannot overturn its decision without new evidence.

医疗保险方面指出如果没有新的证据,将不会推翻自己的决定.

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Parliamentary sovereignty contrasts with notions of judicial review, where a court may overturn legislation deemed unconstitutional.

议会主权与司法审查的观念背返, 因为法院可以认立法为违宪而将其撤销.

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This boat is easy to overturn because its shape is unreasonable.

这只船容易颠覆,因为它造型不合理.

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To overturn Judge Walker's ruling, a court would have to find a flaw in his logic.

想要推翻沃克法官的裁定, 上诉法庭就一定要从他的逻辑链条中找到一个缺口.

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Yet even the political overturn was not so revolutionary as one might suppose.

即使政治上的颠覆也不如人们可能想象的那样具有革命性.

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The defendant who hopes to overturn a guilty verdict must usually appeal.

希望推翻陪审团有罪裁决的被告人通常必须上诉.

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I will overturn the pies as required.

我将按照要求把馅饼翻个个儿.

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An attempt to overturn the government was made.

人们试图推翻这个政府.

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They planned to overturn the government.

他们计划推翻政府.

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I will overturn royal thrones and shatter the power of the foreign kingdoms.

22我必倾覆列国的宝座,除灭列邦的势力,并倾覆战车,和坐在其上的.

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