overstepped

英 [ˌəʊvəˈstept]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈstept]

v.  超越(正常或允许的)范围; 越权; 僭越
overstep的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 逾越；超出…的限度
  If you say that someoneoverstepsthe limits of a system or situation, you mean that they do something that is not allowed or is not acceptable.
  1. The Commission is sensitive to accusations that it is overstepping its authority...
     该委员会对认为其越权的指责颇为敏感。
  2. In male company, perhaps he did overstep the bounds of propriety.
     在清一色男性的公司里，可能他的举止确实有失得体。

双语例句

• In Spring-and-Autumn period, Etiquette-and-Music system was on a bad situation, human sacrifice broke the previous level of restriction, the number of sacrificial victims, burial objects and association of ritual had emerged overstepped.
  春秋时期就出现了礼崩乐坏的局面，人殉也打破了原有的等级限制，殉人数量、随葬品和礼器组合上都出现了僭越。
• Mr Wolfowitz felt the bank overstepped that line.
  沃尔福威茨先生觉得世行已经越线了。
• She'd overstepped his line. He seized her wrist; tears sprang and rolled, a dish clattered.
  她戳到了他的痛处，他一把抓住她的手腕。她的眼泪痛得涌出来，盘子掉在地上摔个粉碎。
• The market economy is a kind of system and process that can not be overstepped during economic development.
  市场经济是现代经济发展不可逾越的一种体制和进程。
• In the struggle to uncover counter-revolution in the economic field, the prescribed scope of investigation was overstepped;
  在清查经济反革命的斗争中，超出了应当清查的范围；
• Disapproving some viewers though the programme overstepped.
  有些观众认为该节目演得有点过头了。
• The difference between a rational expanding interpretation and an analogizing interpretation lies neither in the way of reasoning nor the means of understanding, but in the difference of conclusions, i.e., whether or not the conclusion of interpretation has overstepped a rational limit.
  合理的扩大解释与类推解释的区别并非在于思维模式或认识方法的不同，而是在于解释结论的差异，即解释结论是否超过了合理限度。
• Carstairs has overstepped the limit of his authority in this case.
  卡斯戴尔斯在这个案子上超越了他的权力范围。
• Bill Clinton, who as president was the chief author of the 1990s penal reforms, recently admitted they had overstepped the mark.
  比尔•克林顿（billclinton）担任总统时曾是上世纪90年代刑罚改革的主要推动者。最近他承认，当时的做法过头了。
• A French prosecutor said he had reason to suspect Largarde overstepped her authority in the deal.
  一个法国检察官称，他有理由怀疑拉加德在此次交易中滥用职权。