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Overhaul Originally Nautical Pull Rigging Examination Slackening Rope

正面 12017.overhaul
英 [əʊvə'hɔːl]美 ['ovɚhɔl]

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释义:
vt. 分解检查,大修;追上并超过n. 彻底检修,详细检查
例句:
1. The report recommends an overhaul of public finances.该报告建议对公共财政进行彻底改革。

1. over- "above" + haul.2. originally nautical, "pull rigging apart for examination," which was done by slackening the rope by hauling in the opposite direction to that in which it is pulled in hoisting.
overhaul 检修,大修over-,在上,haul,拉。原为航海术语,指把船帆索具拉起来进行大的修理,后词义通用化。
overhaul (v.)1620s, from over- + haul (v.); originally nautical, "pull rigging apart for examination," which was done by slackening the rope by hauling in the opposite direction to that in which it is pulled in hoisting. Replaced overhale in sense of "overtake" (1793). Related: Overhauled; overhauling.overhaul (n.)1826, from overhaul (v.)."

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