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。
• One day while fishing in a calm sea the south wind suddenly arises and overturns his boat.
  一天捕鱼，而在平静的海面南方风突然出现，并推翻了他的船。
• His theory of ″ impersonality ″, the core of his aesthetic theory, retorts and overturns the traditional theories, but is also his contribution to the theories of English modernist novels.
  其中，非个性化和作家退出小说是乔伊斯美学思想的核心，这是他对传统的小说理论的反拨和颠覆，也是他对英国现代主义小说理论的重大贡献。
• 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。
• 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。
• The revolution and creation of Heidegger's thought of aesthetics lies in the following aspect: His theory which shows the harmony of subjective and objective overturns the traditional metaphysics so that his theory of art, truth and Language shows the new thought.
  海德格尔美学思想的革命性与创新性在于：它以主客相融的存在哲学颠覆了传统主客相分的形而上学，从而使得他在艺术、真理以及语言问题上都显示出了不同于传统的新的思路。
• If the board is floated with standing up, the moment becomes to lying direction, and it overturns soon.
  如果董事会是浮动的站起来，目前成为以低洼方向，并很快推翻。
• 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。
• 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。
• Maik Thomas of the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, who was not affiliated with the study, says the new work overturns previous ideas.
  位于波茨坦的德国地球科学研究中心的迈克·托马斯虽然没有参与上述研究工作，但他表示，这项新的成果推翻了以前的观点。