| 惯用语 |
push oneself too hard (Featus); lay it on with a trowel (Andrey Truhachev); over-egg the pudding (To get something wrong or make something worse by doing too much of something or trying too hard to improve a situation. Primarily heard in UK. Note: Other nouns are sometimes used instead of pudding.: I think we've over-egged the pudding with the amount of technology we've crammed into our daily lives–no one knows how to have a quiet moment anymore. | The band certainly knew how to over-egg the cake, with no song being complete unless it had three tempo changes and a loud finale. Andrey Truhachev); make heavy weather (Англо-русский фразеологический словарь А.В. Кунина, М., 1984: "All that any of us wished to say was, weren't we making too heavy weather of it?" (C.P. Snow) -- Все члены дисциплинарной комиссии задавали себе вопрос: а не переусердствовали ли они? ART Vancouver) |
