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。
• It can be shown that the force-stable condition of the liquid-vapor phase transition system is different from that of a simple compressible single-phase system. The phase transition force-stable marginal curves constitute a limit or boundary which cannot be overstepped during a phase transition.
  结果表明，汽液相变系统的力稳条件不同于简单可压缩单相系统的力稳条件，相变力稳边际曲线是相变时不可逾越的界限。
• At stake is whether Mr Bernanke overstepped his powers at the height of the financial crisis in December.
  关键问题是，伯南克在去年12月金融危机最严重的时期是否曾逾越职权。
• You have really overstepped your bounds this time.
  你这下子真的越了你的权限。
• Disapproving some viewers though the programme overstepped.
  有些观众认为该节目演得有点过头了。
• 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。
• Mr Wolfowitz felt the bank overstepped that line.
  沃尔福威茨先生觉得世行已经越线了。
• This paper discusses the essential factors and targets of control system within enterprises, then expounds four difficult points which must be overstepped in constructing the control system within enterprises.
  文章首先论述了企业内部控制制度的构成要素、目标，国外企业内部控制制度及其对我国的启示，然后重点论述了我国企业内部控制建设必须逾越的四大难点。
• 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。
• The supervisory function of the media which should be the most important social function is weakened and its place is overstepped by entertainment and profit making. At the same time, national public power which was the core of supervision gives way to individual privacy.
  理应作为媒体重要社会功能的舆论监督功能被弱化了，其地位被提供娱乐、获取利润等功能所超越，并且媒体舆论监督的重心也从国家公权力转为普通公民的个人隐私。