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 revolution and creation of Heidegger's thought of aesthetics lies in the following aspect: His theory which shows the harmony of subjective and objective overturns the traditional metaphysics so that his theory of art, truth and Language shows the new thought.
  海德格尔美学思想的革命性与创新性在于：它以主客相融的存在哲学颠覆了传统主客相分的形而上学，从而使得他在艺术、真理以及语言问题上都显示出了不同于传统的新的思路。
• In her novel she praises the physical feature of the female, acknowledges their self-jury and longs for the improvement of women's living conditions and overturns the history of maternal mythology.
  铁凝小说的女性书写表现为对女性身体的纯净赞美，对女性族群自我戕害的坦然承认，对母性神话的历史颠覆以及女性未来生存状态的美好憧憬。
• To a tree whose branches are abundant, and its roots scanty; and the wind comes, and uproots it, and overturns it.
  像一棵树，枝叶繁盛而根基甚浅，风一来就动摇而倒地。
• If the board is floated with standing up, the moment becomes to lying direction, and it overturns soon.
  如果董事会是浮动的站起来，目前成为以低洼方向，并很快推翻。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Network Experience Overturns Traditional Store
  网络体验颠覆传统商店
• One day while fishing in a calm sea the south wind suddenly arises and overturns his boat.
  一天捕鱼，而在平静的海面南方风突然出现，并推翻了他的船。