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 doctrine overturns one of the central geopolitical assumptions of the past two decades: that, for all its hurt pride, Russia saw its role as a powerful player within a post-cold-war geopolitical order.
  这种原则颠覆了过去20年来地缘政治中的一种核心假设：虽然自尊心受到伤害，俄罗斯仍然自视为后冷战地缘政治格局的一个强有力参与者。
• 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。
• Intertextuality was originating from semiotics and its establishment overturns the disadvantages of structuralism whose opinion is that text is a self-reliant and closed system.
  互文性理论起源于符号学，克服了结构主义的弊端，结构主义认为文本是一个封闭的系统且只由能指和所指构成。
• 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；
• 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。
• While the post-modern philosophers hold that the display of the relationship between language and gender offers completely new train of thought to the academic research, which overturns the traditional concept in a fairly large scale.
  在后现代主义哲学家看来，语言与性别关系的揭示则为学术研究提供了崭新的思路，对传统观念进行了一次规模不小的反观和颠覆。
• The opinion that the theory of Burden of Proof should standing upon the logical starting point of presumption overturns the traditional position of presumption rules.
  以推定为逻辑起点的证明责任理论的观点颠覆了传统理论关于推定规则的定位。
• 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。
• With the pursuit of "love" of different varieties by Black people as the mainline, and with Black community as her characters, Morrison deconstructs and overturns the official White history.
  莫里森以黑人在不同历史时期对不同内涵的爱的追求为主线，以黑人群体为主角，对白人的官方历史进行解构和颠覆。
• But when I go to warm my hands, My clumsiness overturns the light And then I stumble Against the tables and chairs.
  可是当我想去暖手时我的笨拙把光翻倒了我便绊在枱和椅上。