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o·ver·wrought
o vr rawt
adjective
disturbed by excessive worry or agitation.Hearing about the accident had made him overwrought, and his friend urged him to calm down and go to bed.
excessively decorated.
verb
a past tense and past participle of overwork.
指感情、想象等,“被激发到过高的程度,过度兴奋”,1758年,字面意思为“过度工作,工作过度或过多”,由 over- 和 wrought 组成。早期它的意思是“被工作耗尽”(1660年代),指牛等动物,作为 overwork(v.)的过去分词。
past participle of overwork
The first known use of overwrought was in 1638
ovulateverb
to produce eggs or release them from an ovary
ovoidadjective
ovate
ovoidadjective
ovate
ovipositornoun
a specialized organ (as of an insect) for depositing eggs
oviparousadjective
producing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body of the female
oviductnoun
a tube for the passage of eggs from the ovary of an animal
overwroughtadjective
extremely excited : agitated
overwrought feelings
decorated too much : overdone
1 Three months before she was born, Corina possessed more brain cells than she ever would again: an overwrought jungle of connections.
在她出生之前的三个月里,科瑞娜拥有比她以前更多的大脑细胞:过度繁茂的联结体丛林。
2 During a season when the majority of movies are sappy and overwrought with emotion, this unexpectedly delightful comedy is fun, weird and relatable in the best ways.
3 Pollard, surely overwrought from the reducing, lost control.
4 Mr. Bergès, too, views the criticism as largely politically inspired, unduly negative and overwrought.
5 Most people know by now that "Skins" is a steamy scripted drama about overwrought teens, spun off from the acclaimed British series of the same name.
6 My parents were so overwrought that they gave up having any more children and devoted their lives to doing good work among the poor and hungry.”
7 The casting is strong all around, which helps pull the series through its weaker stretches, when it does start to drift into a morality play or an overwrought junkie melodrama.
8 Lara apologises for overwrought metaphors and cliched phrases, and these apologies pull us out of the story and can be mistaken for excuses from Caldwell herself.
9 The movie may suffer from a surfeit of excesses, but it does have arresting, if overwrought, things to say about domestic abuse in India.
10 And yet: If glimmering moments of hilarity are a temporary respite for overwrought American psyches, then it should be said, at least, that these particular white dudes are doing their part.
11 The houses are still modest, certainly by comparison to the metabolically overwrought mansions of Beverly Hills and West L.A., but now the prices, like the views, are spectacular.
12 If the play itself, a family melodrama that tries on the poisonous humor of “August: Osage County” but can’t disguise a much softer heart, often feels prepackaged and overwrought — well, it’s a play, after all.
13 But museums don’t thrive on the solitude of overwrought 20-somethings and, selfish concerns aside, the new museum is, objectively, more lively.
14 In his review for The Times, A. O. Scott wrote that the film is “a modest and effectively executed urban thriller, suspenseful and entertaining in its clammy, overwrought way.”
15 She was tired and overwrought.
她很累且过度紧张.
16 As an overwrought society moll, she drifts across her terrace in Capri in a frothy white caftan, its sheerness both a taunt and tacit invitation.
17 He preemptively mocked his own response: “It’s another entertainment show beginning with the overwrought speech of a shaken host.”
18 Sometimes the mix became overwrought, as in a paisley print blouson with black lace inserts outlined in ruffles of blue fabric or a multistriped, multicolored jumpsuit.
19 But an overwrought and violent attack by the state can quickly turn a marginal movement into a central one, pulling in people who might otherwise not have paid attention or would have remained on the sidelines.
20 These conversations feel overwrought and less distinctive than Mr. Moyers’s exquisite way with a raunchy joke and a terrible pickup line.
1 神经质
sensitive nervous windy neurotic temperamental melancholic jumpy squeamish nervy unstrung goosey goosy jump spooky shaky queasy ticklish prissy high-strung tremulous overstrung hypertense toey twittery highkeyed nerve temperament nervosity highly strung strung up
4 忧虑
concerned anxious unhappy uneasy apprehensive pensive twitchy care concern anxiety funk apprehension agitation spectre angst perturbation disquiet vexation inquietude fear unease weigh on
5 过度紧张的
6 神经质的
sensitive nervous windy neurotic temperamental melancholic jumpy squeamish nervy unstrung goosey goosy jump spooky shaky queasy ticklish prissy high-strung tremulous overstrung hypertense toey twittery highkeyed highly strung strung up
7 过度紧张
8 紧张激动
9 烦恼
concerned fraught galling care irritation annoyance vexation palaver concern hurt bug fuss irk harry bedevil be in into a lather
10 过劳
overweary overwork overstrain overtoil overexert overfatigue overstrain oneself overwork oneself strain overpressure try overdo overburden
13 过劳的
14 操劳过度
15 过度兴奋
16 心烦意乱的
17 过分劳累
18 过度焦虑
19 过于紧张的
20 操劳过度的
21 不自然
car artificial stiff forced unnatural strained artful constrained galvanic stilted factitious agonistic stilty affected denaturalize disnature
22 过于复杂的
23 过度
terrific lavish inordinate unconscionable intemperate immoderate overmuch overly hell surfeit for- hyper- supercharge to a fault
25 过度兴奋的
26 不自然的
car artificial stiff forced unnatural strained artful constrained galvanic stilted factitious agonistic stilty
27 装饰过多的