- N-UNCOUNT 加班;加班时间
Overtime is time that you spend doing your job in addition to your normal working hours.
- He would work overtime, without pay, to finish a job...
他会为了完成工作无偿加班。 - Union leaders had urged miners to vote in favour of an overtime ban.
工会领导人呼吁矿工投票支持加班禁令。
- PHRASE 投入全力;热情高涨
If you say that someone is working overtime to do something, you mean that they are using a lot of energy, effort, or enthusiasm trying to do it.
- We had to battle very hard and our defence worked overtime to keep us in the game...
我们不得不奋力搏杀;为保证我们不被淘汰出局,防守队员拼尽了全力。 - She works overtime with her vacuum cleaner to keep grit out of the kitchen.
她动用真空吸尘器力争不让厨房出现沙砾。
- N-UNCOUNT (体育比赛中为决胜负而延长的)加时赛
Overtime is an additional period of time that is added to the end of a sports match in which the two teams are level, as a way of allowing one of the teams to win.
- Denver had won the championship by defeating the Cleveland Browns 23-20 in overtime.
丹佛队在加时赛中以23比20击败克利夫兰布朗队夺得冠军。
in BRIT, use 英国英语用 extra time