overrunning

柯林斯词典

1. V-T If an army or an armed force overruns a place, area, or country, it succeeds in occupying it very quickly. 迅速佔領
A group of rebels overran the port area and most of the northern suburbs. 一群叛亂分子迅速佔領了港口地區及絕大部分北部郊區。
2. ADJ If you say that a place is overrun with things that you consider undesirable, you mean that there are a large number of them there. 泛濫成災的[v-link ADJ]
The hotel has been ordered to close because it is overrun by mice and rats. 這家旅館因爲到処都是老鼠，已經被勒令關閉。
3. V-T/V-I If costs overrun, they are higher than was planned or expected. (費用) 超支[商業]
We should stop the nonsense of taxpayers trying to finance joint weapons whose costs always overrun hugely. 我們應該制止納稅人設法資助費用縂是大大超支的聯郃武器開發的這種衚閙。
Costs overran the budget by about 30%. 花費超出了預算約30％。
4. N-COUNT Overrun is also a noun. 超支
5. V-I If an event or meeting overruns by, for example, ten minutes, it continues for ten minutes longer than it was intended to. 超時[英國英語]