overturned

基本解釋

His teachings were received wisdom for two millennia, overturned only by the birth of modern science 350 years ago.
他的教誨被當(dāng)作至理名言達(dá)兩千年，直到350年前現(xiàn)代科學(xué)的誕生才把它推翻。
The individual mandate was not supposed to come into effect until 2014 in any case, they argue, by which time this judgment may well have been overturned.
他們爭辯說，無論如何，“個人強(qiáng)制醫(yī)保”條款在2014年以前估計都不會生效，而到那時這項判決可能早已經(jīng)被推翻了。
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It's one of those sci-fi epics, where there's an alien invasion to be overturned, a stoic soldier to defeat it, and maybe a cool gun or two to use in the process.
這是一本科幻小說巨制。書中描寫的是外星人入侵被推翻，一位堅忍的戰(zhàn)士挫敗了外星人的陰謀，也許在戰(zhàn)斗中還用到一兩種很酷的武器。

But the Supreme Court recently overturned that ruling.
Second, a sense of crisis, a radical break in culture, an overturning of conventional artistic forms that goes with a sense that civilization itself is being overturned.
第二，危機(jī)感，文化上根本性突破，與文明本身被顛覆同時進(jìn)行的,顛覆傳統(tǒng)藝術(shù)模式的運(yùn)動。
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The supreme court later overturned the ruling on grounds of mistaken identity.

The justices unanimously overturned the drug conviction of Antoine Jones, while splintering in their reasoning.
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If something overturns or if you overturn it, it turns upside down or on its side.
If someone in authority overturns a legal decision, they officially decide that that decision is incorrect or not valid.