overwrought的意思|overwrought的解释-里氏词典

overwrought

a. 过分劳累的, 过度紧张的, 神经质的, 过度兴奋的, 过分推敲的, 不自然的

overwrought

[ adj ]
deeply agitated especially from emotion
<adj.all>
distraught with grief

Overwrought \O`ver*wrought\, p. p. & a. from {Overwork}.
1. Wrought upon excessively; overworked.

2. Extremely agitated or excited; overexcited; -- of people.
[PJC]

Overwork \O`ver*work"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Overworked}or
{Overwrought}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overworking}.]
1. To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or
too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.

2. To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.

My days with toil are overwrought. --Longfellow.

3. To decorate all over.

Becoming overwrought over such issues as where people sit or the color of the napkins is usually a cover for other emotional issues.
At the risk of an overwrought parallel, it pays to remember what happened at Watergate.
This is not only the most overbearingly repetitious display at the Biennale, but in its own middlebrow way it also is a form of kitsch: overwrought, slick and full of inflated sentiment.
His style at first is either overwrought and overexcited or fetishistically introspective and self-absorbed.
Miss Redgrave is often riveting, but the real hero of the evening is Hall who directs Williams' overwritten, overwrought and oversexed fandango with the commitment of a true believer.
Ofstedal said the crew at one point asked passengers for rope. Although no one was told why it was needed, she said there was speculation an overwrought passenger needed to be subdued.
At best this may have worked as an overwrought soap opera, sort of "A Turning Point" for addicts.
Muir's prose, overwrought by today's standards, is still inspiring, because of the firsthand excitement, the sense of risk and of being somewhere or doing something first in a fabulous setting.

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