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Overcapacity is when a factory or a whole industry can make more things than people will buy. The machines and workers are ready, but the extra goods sit there, or the factory has to slow down. News and business people use this word a lot about cars, computer chips, steel, and housing. It is not a feeling word; it is about how much you can produce. “Capacity” here means “how much you can make,” not “how able a person is.” You usually treat it as a situation, not as a countable thing: the industry is suffering from overcapacity. Though actually, a little spare capacity can be useful; overcapacity is when that spare becomes a problem because nobody wants the extra goods.
產能過剩
組成over- (too much) + capacity (how much you can produce). From over- + capacity.
同家族的字
- capacityhow much something can hold or produce
原始詞典資料1 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。
overcapacitynoun
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A capacity for the production of a commodity or product that is in excess of what is needed.
- In 1959, Ernest Marples became the new Minister of Transport. His business career had been as a road builder and he saw the future in a network of motorways, whereas he believed there was serious overcapacity in the railway network.
- In the last two years much of the car industry’s focus has been on Chinese overcapacity, but the VDA’s statement is drawing attention to deeper changes in Europe with fewer cars being bought by the public.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。