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    To overbear someone or something is to press them down until they lose — by force, by weight, or by a stronger will. It is an old, rather verb. You might find it in a history text: one side overbears the other. The picture is bearing down from above, not the animal called a bear. Though actually, almost nobody uses this verb in daily talk. What people do use is overbearing, the adjective for a person who always pushes others. There is also a garden use, where a tree overbears if it grows too much fruit and tires itself — that is a different job for the same pieces, and not this sense. If you need a living word for “defeat”, you want beat, defeat, or ; keep overbear for the page it still lives on.

    壓倒;以力量或氣勢制服。書面、少用的動詞;日常幾乎只會碰到形容詞 overbearing。

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組成over- (over, down from above) + bear (press, carry with force). From Middle English overberen; equivalent to over- + bear.

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  • overbearingthe common adjective from this rare verb: pushing people down
  • bearhere in the old sense “press, carry with force”, not the animal

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

overbearverb/əʊvəˈbɛː/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo carry over.

  • 2

    To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome.

    • I attacked first and they were overborne, / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing.
  • 3

    To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress.

    • It often fals, in course of common life, / That right long time is overborne of wrong […].
  • 4

    To produce an overabundance of fruit.

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