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。

We have 'purging', 'citing' and 'overstretching'.

我们有“清除”、“引用”和“过度延伸”。

And 'overstretching' — getting something to do more than it can.

还有“过度延伸”——做一些超出能力范围的事情。

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

如果你把它们撑得太宽，你就会失去对它们的控制。

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

亚瑟·韦斯莱又做了他自力所不及的事情吗，他和他的麻瓜精装置？”

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

我们今天要讲的单词是“过度延伸”。

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

在当前的文化中，我们很可能为了实现我们的目标而过度夸耀自。

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

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

'Citing' - giving the reason for something. And 'overstretching' - getting something to do more than it can.

“引用”——给出某事的理由。和“过度紧张”——做一些超出它所能做的事情。

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。我们正在看的词是“过度伸展” 。

" 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.

“我们的住房、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。

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。

I overstretch my finger on a note, and I heard a popping sound and was alarmed to find that it wasn't a string that had popped, that actually, a tendon in my left hand.

我在音符上过度伸展手指，然后我听到了一声爆裂声，我惊恐地发现那不是一根弦，而是我左手的一根肌腱。

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所需累计能源投资中已投入的份额来衡量），它们仍在实现。

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，如果你拉伸你的衣服，你会扯它们，如果你过度拉扯，那么你就会把它们拉得太长，使衣服过大，或者它们会撕裂，在上面留下一个洞。