surfeit
surfeit 英 [ˈsɜ:fɪt] 美 [ˈsɜrfɪt]
n. 过度；饮食过度；恶心（由于饮食过度所引起） vt. 使饮食过度；使厌腻；使过度沉溺于 vi. 饮食过度；过分放纵
进行时:surfeiting 过去式:surfeited 过去分词:surfeited 第三人称单数:surfeits 名词复数:surfeits
- Steve baked a surfeit of jam tarts. Steve ate a surfeit of jam tarts. Steve surfeited himself on jam tarts. Whether surfeit is a noun or a verb (as in "overabundance" or "gorge"), Steve is likely to end up with a bellyache.
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- n. 过度；饮食过度；恶心（由于饮食过度所引起）
- vt. 使饮食过度；使厌腻；使过度沉溺于
- vi. 饮食过度；过分放纵
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1. One night, in a surfeit of sleeplessness, the poet leapt suddenly into a dream in which he stood in a room in a ramshackle house.
一天晚上，过度失眠中的诗人忽然坠入梦乡，梦里，他就站在那幢摇摇欲坠的房子的一个房间里。
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2. As Godbey points out, the stress we feel arises not from a shortage of time, but from the surfeit of things we try to cram into it.
正如戈德比所指出的，我们的紧张感并非源于时间短缺，而是因为我们试图在一个个时段中塞入过多的内容。
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3. This shift from information scarcity to surfeit has broad effects.
信息从匮乏转向过剩具有广泛的影响。
- surfeit (n.) early 14c., "excess quantity;" late 14c., "overindulgence," from Old French sorfet "excess; arrogance" (Modern French surfait), noun use of past participle of surfaire "overdo," from sur- "over" (see sur- (1)) + faire "do," from Latin facere "to make, do" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put").
- surfeit (v.) late 14c., intransitive, "indulge or feed to excess," from surfeit (n.). Related: Surfeited; surfeiting. Transitive sense from 1590s.
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