Mr Bush tainted America's values with inept invasion, prisoner abuse and imperial overstretch.

布什政府因不当入侵，虐囚，以及强权扩张，玷污了美国的价值观。

The word we're looking at is 'overstretch'.

我今天要讲的单词是“过度延伸”。

But if you overstretch them, you can actually lose control.

如果把它撑得太宽，就会失去对它的控制。

Arthur Weasley overstretch himself again, him and his Muggle contraptions? ”

亚瑟·韦斯莱又做了他自己力所不及的事情吗，他和他的麻瓜精巧装置？”

Our forces cannot — they're overstretched, they're exhausted. We just can't secure it.

因为我的警力不足，警方已经精疲力竭。我不能确保安全。

The LNA is overstretched and short of cash; the GNA is weak and unpopular.

利比亚国民军资金紧张，现金短缺；民族团结政府软弱且不受欢。

In current culture, we're likely to overstretch ourselves in order to achieve our goals.

在当前的文化中，我很可能为了现我的目标而过度夸耀自己。

" We are already overstretching what we have - the housing, roads, the hospitals, schools. Everything is overstretched, " said Gyang Dalyop.

Gyang Dalyop说：“我的住房、道路、医院和学校都已超负荷运转。一切都超出了承受能力。”

Relax them and you release the flow but if you overstretch them, you can actually lose control.

放松它，就释放了流动性，但如果过度拉伸它， 际上可能会失去控制。

The government is already overstretched by a separate insurgency in the east of the country led by the M23 rebel group.

为了对付该国东部M23叛军的叛乱，该国政府已疲于应对。

So, for example, if you try to work more than you can, you can be overstretched and you are, in a way, damaged.

那么，举个例子，如果努力工作超过了的能力，就会过度劳累，在某种程度上，会受伤。

So, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has criticised this decision by the US. The word we're looking at is 'overstretch'.

因此，中国外交部对美方的这一决定提出了批评。我正在看的词是“过度伸展” 。

Mayor Eric Adams declaring a state of emergency, as the nation's largest city struggles to house thousands of migrants in an already overstretched shelter system.

市长埃里克·亚当斯宣布全州进入紧急状态，这个全国最大的城市正竭尽全力在已经超负荷运转的收容系统中安置数以千计的移民。

Constantine was born into a Roman Empire  that was in crisis. Civil wars, diseases, and invasions were rendering the  empire overstretched and vulnerable.

君士坦丁出生于危机四伏的罗马帝国。内战、疾病和入侵使帝国不堪重负且脆弱不堪。

" We are already overstretching what we have – the housing, roads, the hospitals, schools. Everything is overstretched, " said Gyang Dalyop, an urban planning and development consultant in Nigeria.

“我的住房、道路、医院和学校，一切都已经超负荷运转了。”尼日利亚的城市规划和发展顾问 Gyang Dalyop 说道。

On top of that, water shortages are occurring in some cities where water runs off the streets too quickly to enter water systems that are already overstretched.

最重要的是，一些城市正在发生缺水问题，街道上的水流得太快，无法进入已经不堪重负的供水系统。

China's ambassador to the United States has urged Washington to stop politicizing economic issues or overstretching the concept of security in order to deepen agricultural cooperation between the two countries.

中国驻美国大使敦促华盛顿停止将经济问题政治化或过度延伸安全概念，以深化两国之间的农业合作。

Andrew Haldane, formerly of the Bank of England, has compared the safety net provided to banks to overstretched elastic – once inflated, it never quite shrinks back to size.

前英格兰银行的安德鲁·霍尔丹 (Andrew Haldane) 将提供给银行的安全网比作过度拉伸的橡皮筋——一旦膨胀，它就永远不会完全收缩。

What makes these signs of overstretch so striking is that they are materialising even as the energy transition is less than 10% complete (measured by the share of cumulative energy-investment needed by 2050 that has already taken place).

这些过度扩张的迹象之所以如此引人注目，是因为即使能源转型的完成率不到10%（以2050年所需累计能源投资中已投入的份额来衡量），它仍在现。

It does, yeah. If you stretch say your clothes for example, you pull them, and if you overstretch them, then you pull them so far that they become too big or they rip and get a hole in them.

对，没错。例如，如果拉伸的衣服，会扯它，如果过度拉扯，那么就会把它拉得太长，使衣服过大，或者它会撕裂，在上面留下一个洞。