overworked

英 [ˌəʊvəˈwɜːkt]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈwɜːrkt]

adj.  工作过多的; 劳累过度的; 用得过滥的; 滥而无效的
v.  (使)过度劳累，过分努力
overwork的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：overworked　过去式：overworked　

BNC.18618 / COCA.14862

牛津词典

adj.

• 工作过多的；劳累过度的
  made to work too hard or too much
  1. overworked nurses
     劳累过度的护士
• 用得过滥的；滥而无效的
  used too often so that the meaning or effect has become weaker

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （词语、表达方式、主意等）用得过滥的，陈词滥调的
  If you describe a word, expression, or idea asoverworked, you mean it has been used so often that it no longer has much effect or meaning.
  1. 'Ecological' has become one of the most overworked adjectives among manufacturers of garden supplies.
     “生态的”这个词已经成为园艺产品生产商用得最滥的形容词之一。
  2. ...an overworked simile.
     程式化的微笑

双语例句

• You complain about being overworked or underpaid.
  抱怨工作量过大或薪水太低。
• I must have overworked myself.
  我一定是过于劳累了。
• Jeff: are you "overworked, underpaid and dissatisfied"?
  杰夫：你对“超负荷工作，待遇低很不满意，”是吗？
• I have overworked this weekend because of the hard project.
  为了那个棘手的项目，这个周末我一直都在加班。
• Take responsibility for being overworked, then change it.
  对工作过度负责，并改变它。
• If their overworked parents were given more free time instead, everyone would be happier.
  如果他们过度劳累的父母有更多的空闲时间，而是每个人都快乐。
• Because Henry hated to delegate, he was always overworked.
  由于亨利不喜欢授权下属办事，所以他自己总是劳累过度。
• He worried ( overworked) himself into consumption. One's health suffers from overwork.
  他忧虑（劳累）过度而患肺过度劳累有损身体健康。
• They are overprotective, sometimes rigid and, often, overworked and exhausted.
  他们保护性很强，甚至有点刻板，一般都会过度劳累，把自己搞得精疲力竭。
• I felt like the soil on some desperate sharecropper's farm, sorely overworked and needing a fallow season.
  我就像某个绝望的佃农所耕种的土壤，负担过重，亟需休耕。